WE ARE LEAVING MEXICO, ADIOS MEXICO!

Today we have been clearing out of Mexico, officially.

A long procedure took us from Puerto Capitano ( harbour captain), who asked for copies of passports, ships documents such an registration and other to be checked and copied many times. Then we were sent to the bank to pay exit fee of 235 Petsos. After that we were sent to the immigration office across the square, and back to the harbour captain, where the deputy asked us to come back three hours later as the captain himself had to give us a stamp in the papers. And so it went on!

This evening at 6.00 pm this pretty immigrations officer arrived at the boat and took away our green card so we are now officially no longer in Mexico! However tomorrow morning at 7.00 am the customs officer should arrive and chech us over for drugs and other illigal items!

We leave Mexico tomorrow as soon as we have passed through the key hole of burocracy.

There is a weather-window for the Tehuantepec Bay, which is notorious locally for northerly gales suddenly developing at the narrow isthmus between the Mexican Golf and the Pacific Ocean.

We start sailing as early as we can, and follow the bay round for 250 Miles a few miles off shore ( the wind is northerly and the swell is only small under land).

We continue nonstop sailing till we reach El Salvador and shall anchor up in a river 490 Miles from here. Its going to be a long trip, but we are prepared as best as we can. We are going to be at sea for around five days and nights.

ADIOS MEXICO.

IT HAS BEEN GREAT.