Travel with Indigo

Today is bacon and eggs for breakfast day. We all had lunch down at the beach at the “restaurant” we went to a few days ago. It was a big group with the crew, Luigi and his girlfriend. There was also a big party going on there so we ate on the sand on plastic chairs pulled around makeshift tables. But it made it more fun and the fish was great. Later the boys went wake-boarding with Captain Toby and Will learned more about how to operate the boat and Grant learned more about towing a wake-boarder. […]

Grant worked with Roddy all day and Will worked with Grant. It’s a cloudy dreary day—the first real one here—so it was a good day for working on the boat. Late in the afternoon, the crew took Will and Grant ashore to play rugby in the sand; they all came back exhausted. Phil spent the day with Luigi who introduced him to John Pollok, who is the retired head of the police in Recife, near here. […]

It’s a quiet morning here—still beautiful, but a little overcast. Grant and Will are in the water cleaning the waterline of the boat and checking stuff underwater. Grant then worked in the engine room with Roddy almost all day.  Phil went to the beach and met with Luigi, the Italian architect, who lives here six months of the year. I got to stay on the boat reading. […]

Well, we are still here at Itamaraca and we all agree it is one of the most beautiful places we have ever been.  Phil and the boys and I set off on a tender wide around the island of Itamaraca and you know Phil, we had to go fast and we had to go all the way around, no matter how rough it was.  It wasn’t like seasick rough or even slightly dangerous, but it was a lot of bouncing and hitting.  But the coast was beautiful and we were glad we had done it. […]

This morning, we had breakfast on the boat with the Dutch hotel owner and two of the three archaeologists I referred to in yesterday’s entry and they then took us on a tour of the fort after explaining what they are doing.  The boys seemed interested but they have both been to the fort in St. Augustine and this was much more basic and not as developed. […]