Adventures

Yesterday morning I was just waking up, preparing for my morning run, when my phone rang. It was Pieter and I was amazed he even got through – here on Ibo we normally have signal only at the circle outside of Miti Miwiri. Luckily this morning it was extended to my bedroom so I got the call, but I still had to go outside to call him back in order to actually get in contact. I knew already that he was in some kind of trouble => he wouldn’t have called me at 05.00 otherwise… It turned out he had lost the one anchor we had left after losing the first one last Sunday. He was drifting at sea and needed help.

I started looking around for people who could help me find a new anchor and eventually get me to the boat, which I had no clue where it was… Eventually Assane found a small anchor and we went out to try and find the boat. Luckily enough Pieter had gone back into the channel and we could easily get to him. The anchor was way too small though, so we had to slowly cruise closer to Ibo and finally put the boat on the sand in low tide, right outside Cinqo Portas.

Pieter and Aidad (a very skilled diver from Ibo) took their snorkels and masks on the canoe and went back to the spot where she was anchored earlier. I never thought they would find the anchor, but Pieter told me that it took Aidad only 5 minutes to locate and bring it up. Amazing!!! This guy knew what he was doing!

When the tide came back in the evening we took the boat out and anchored it at the right spot again. I was of course on board doing my duties as deck hand :)

We woke up today with heavy rain, but at the same spot! Very good! After doing some tricks (Pieter, not me) with the motor to get it started and reloading the batteries we took the canoe back to Ibo. Pieter returned to the boat after dropping me off and I went to get some breakfast at the house.

Later I went for a walk… and got lost… It wasn’t for long and I never got really worried, but lost I was! Eventually, after trying various paths that ended up nowhere, I decided to back track and after 1½ hours I returned safely to where I began from :) Ibo is a very small island, so I doubt it’s possible to get really lost but for a moment I couldn’t help myself from thinking I might spend the night in the bush… Without big wild animals it’s not a great danger, but nevertheless a not very pleasant experience I gather! So I celebrated the good return with a shower and a couple of glasses of wine. And now it’s time to go to bed. It is almost 9.30 and way passed bedtime for me already.

Goodnight amigos!