Cayo Rosario

After a few days on Cayo Largo we had a nice short sail to Cayo Rosario. Rather than anchor in the channel there is a reef entrance on the south coast at the western end with a reasonable anchorage with protection from the reef. Beautiful beach for swimming and BBQs under the trees and not bad fishing out at the reef so we were happy enough. After a only a few hours there we saw our good friends from the Indian Ocean sail past on Kantala, they said they would be back this way in a couple of days so we waited and was great to catch up with them for the first time since Brazil over a few beers on the beach was great fun.

The forecast for the next week then said light south easterlies on the North coast of Cuba so we decided to make the most of it and sail to the cape and then head up the North coast to Havana. Normally there are quite strong NE winds and you will have to bash into it on that coast but we had a great trip mostly. 360 miles took us just over 3 days with 18 hours motoring so wasn't too bad, better than expected anyway. 

Michael from Kantala gave me a good tip for radio weather forecast on 8137fqz USB. His name is Chris Parker, some weather guru and he starts I think around 8am local time and slowly covers the whole of the Caribbean finishing around Cuba at 930 for those interested. People subscribe to him and he advises cruisers best time to leave ect on passages around the place.

Michael and Sheila for drinks on Sunflower

Fish BBQs on the beach