Klein Curaçao 🇨🇼

We arrived at dusk, had supper and went to SLEEP! So grateful for a safe, and relatively quiet passage. We had a few rigging things to adjust and fix (our errors), but otherwise, we rested!
We were concerned that we may have dropped anchor too close to the tour boats (9 in total showed up), but they all maneuvered around us. We set to shore, and enjoyed walking around the island, seeing the lighthouse (1850) which we observed sailing towards the island and actively flashing through the night.
As we swam to shore, we noticed that an anchor was tangled in containers/mooring, so Brian set about finding the owner. We chatted for a few minutes to owners/ captain of Aqua Azul business and adult son Jacob…. Who had placed the anchor on purpose.
With all the people and the boats I expected an increased noise level, but it was just a humm on the boat, and enjoyable to people watch after we swam back. We also worked on getting all our charts in order, syncing with the chart plotter and updating active captain and Navionics app. This met Brian had to reach out to his ex-wife for the Apple password in order to do a much overdue update. She graciously obliged and I don’t think we will have any glitches with Active Captain again…. and we now have charts on Navionics and the Chartplotter for the rest of our journey through South and Central America.
At 4pm the last boat left and all was quiet again. The anchorage was a bit more rolly in the evening…. But we were still grateful to sleep in bed! 🛌 Only some music and a dog wandering (must be the caretakers) were signs that someone was still on little Curacao!
After two nights, before the Mermaid and other tour boats arrived, we hoisted the anchor and headed to Spaanse Waters, dropped the dinghy and headed for Customs & Immigration (after I filled out Sail Clear and our Digital Immigration cards online).
Christel is in Miami and returning to Curacao on Friday… and we will use her car, and then figure out our time on the island. It feels so strange to be here on Lorena, to share this Alice of heaven with Brian (and hope he loves it as much as I do)! My 4th time here since 2023.Read more