Los Roques (Hugh & Eliza)

Los Roques (Hugh)

Wow what an amazing place.

Sunday was a bit of a test, with 3 more plane trips before we arrived. Another airport adventure, and this time I cannot blame anyone for the chaos. We had plenty of time, even time to sit down and order food, a beer etc. Only of course we didn’t have plenty of time. They don’t announce any plans for boarding over here, not even in Spanish, so we were without our usual prompts. You just have to be at the right place at the right time and, of course, we weren’t, we never are (I refer to my previous submission). I had in fact previously visited the gate to get a sense of the distance from the restaurant that we had to cross to get to the gate, and thank goodness, because it was the guy that I had spoken to before who recognised us gringos and found us in the restaurant. Never until now has someone actually come and fetched me to put me on a plane.

Fortunately, there was only one other guy travelling, so we did not delay too many fellow passengers. In fact, we had the plane to ourselves. We have a photo of this, which is quite jolly, but download speeds are not that fantastic from here, so we may have to wait.

Had a very jolly day on Monday. Desayuno at 830, then chilling around before a boat comes and takes you to a deserted island, but for kitesurfing and windsurfing headcases. What a co-incidence, I say, and head for a hut which looks to have some rigs laid out in the optimistic hope that some like-minded folk happen to wander past (this cannot happen very often).

So I left the team for an hour or so to windsurf while they poked at hermit crabs, snorkelled, and generally mouched about. 20 years since I had stood on a “sailboard” and designs have moved on a bit. The boards are now rather short and fat (ok, ok, very funny). I was handed a 5.0 and spent a good hour or so in 20 knot winds reminding myself of how this works. Very jolly. If the wind holds tomorrow (and it has, since they started recording it) I will get a bigger sail and a smaller board and hope that the rest of the team can forgive me this luxury.

Some photos of the day below, although goodness knows whether they will load from here.

Tuesday 30th June (Eliza)

We woke up and had breakfast, then we saw are boat coming and we got in it and then we went to the beach and went snorkelling in the sea then we went to warm and watched Daddy wind surfing and then we went to the lagoon and then we went back to the beach and daddy arrived and then me and Monty said hurray it is lunch time and we ate omelette and bread then me and Monty played then we went snorkelling with daddy and we saw lodes and lodes of fish under the boat and met mummy and Jemima snorkelling too, then we showed them all the fish and then we got out of the water and had some lunch then the boat came to pick us up and then we went on the boat and we got to are hotel and we went snorkelling again and there were even more fish so we tried to catch some but we couldn’t so then me and Jemima got the computer and rote the blog.