We left Bonaire yesterday morning after going to the marina to fill up with water and pay for the mooring bouy we had used (there is no anchoring at Bonaire as the whole island is a national park). We set course for the south end of Curacao and rounded the corner just after lunchtime. Christine Anne called us on the VHF to tell us they had just left Curacao and were therefore about an hour and half ahead of us.
We aimed for the 20 mile channel between Aruba and the Paraguana peninsula of Venezula and passed through it during the early hours of the morning. We could see both Aruba and Venezula clearly but also what we thought was a large fishing fleet off the west coast of Aruba - this later turned out to be about 30 oil tankers all parked up (why we are not sure). After picking our way through the tanker parking lot we heaed for the Guajira Peninsula - the northern most point of Columbia. We are currently passing the Monjes Islands just before this peninsula but are officially in Columbian waters!
Wind has been light and we had to turn the engine on around 5am - but we have 2 knots of current behind us which is making for good progress.
24hr run - 164n/m (a Newtsville record!!)
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