Wasn’t easy to leave the Falklands, not easy to leave those who welcome us, to leave this nature and all these animals, so kind, so trustful. Nor it was easy to sail North, but we reached Caleta Horno and her guanacos without difficulties. Then it will be Quequen where we meet again our friends of the Club de Yates Vito Dumas. Everybody is here, Nestor and his friends, everybody took some more years, even the dogs Peluche, Coca and Rubia.
A little bit more North and it’s La Paloma, where we meet again Daniel and Monica, so dear in our heart. We will enter Brazil once more at Rio Grande do Sul. Here we will be invited to come alongside the Museum’s pier, to drink the Ilha dos marinheros’s wine just coming ashore. The Captain will be even invited to sail on “Tradicão”, historic sailing boat of the Lagoa dos Patos, built in 1885, an old sister for Skøiern.
But was is stressing us is what seems to be a return journey. To meet again family and friends, for sure, but to say to ourselves that it’s over, that now we will take the right way, make the show in the meetings and festivals, sailing gently, we can’t do it. We don’t want to end our days in a retirement home, these jails “for life” for old people, where the Grim Reaper take her time to execute the sentence, without appeal or pardon. Nor we want to buy a”campo” in a remote country, breeding chickens or slaughtering cheeps, nothing of all that.
We will go through bad moments till we decided to go on, as long as we could. We make the promise to come back in the South, after some escapes in the North and the Med, Brazil could be a good starting point for Argentina and Chile, the projects take place, and even if it’s only in our mind, it’s enough, that save us.
Our boat is getting old, as we are but she only needs a coat of paint and some of varnish to look new, not like us…With the years going we are more and more in harmony, we are only one, cat include. Sail, under the look of the stars, travel , trying to understand the surrounding world, again and again.
Now Rio de Janeiro, Manon and Enzo will join us, we will make them discover Brazil we are so found, it will be great !
