Cruising

From Placencia town we headed north to Tobacco Cay, a coconut covered little island with a few tourist huts that sits at the entrance to the reef about 70nm north of Guatemala where we left from. The weather was perfect and we snorkelled on the outside of the reef, lots of nice coral but hardly any decent sized fish which was a real let down.
We downloaded a really good forecast which promised NW winds for a few days which is generally unheard of here as it always seems to be E-NE. Our plan to head to Panama or maybe Colombia means First we have to head over 300 miles east to round the horn of Honduras and seeing as there has been a bit of trouble off there our plan was to be well offshore, which we are, 2 days out and been rolling and surfing down sloppy seas but making good easy miles and nearly due north and 100 miles north of the horn, definitely no dodgey fisherman in launches out here:)
The forecast is looking ok for the next few days and we will still keep trying to head east as much as possible to try to make Colombia which is 700nm east of where we left from but if it looks like we won't make that we will head for San Blas of worst case (still good) to Bocas Del Toro further west which is mainland Panama.
Hardly seen any shipping out here so it's been very quiet, letting the new autopilot do all the work and it's making it look easy. Cooked the last of our fish in a Thai curry last night which turned out to be a little spicier than I planned and besides that just trying to get into a sleep pattern with a couple of hours here and there, been so long it is taking us both a while to adjust I think.
Good to be sailing again!!