September 3-6, 2013
Isla La Ventana is a small Island very near BLA village to the NE. We didn’t stay here very long, and there was sort of a damper on activities in that Alex came down with an ear infection. We actually went to the village and back just to go to the medical clinic. Tim and Brenden did a little spearfishing, but Alex and I just hung around the boat.
Logbook – September 3, 2013 (BLA Village to La Ventana)
Passage Log Highlights
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- 1505 Depart BLA Village
- 1817 Arrive La Ventana
Daily Notes
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- Left BLA Village – sail to La Gringa – D tacked too early
- Decided to stop at La Ventana
- Chubasco warning – lots of lightning – winds picked up about 11:30 pm
- Mostly high teens, some low to mid-20s, gusts to 27-30. No rain. No issues.
Logbook – September 4, 2013 (La Ventana to BLA Village to La Ventana)
Passage Log Highlights
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- 0930 Depart La Ventana
- 1024 Arrive BLA Village
- 1355 Depart BLA Village
- 1527 Arrive La Ventana
Daily Notes
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- Alex earache. Trip back to BLA Village to the clinic. Dr. spoke some English.
- Kyle went with us to help translate. Payment is by donation.
- Gave up Amoxycillan & ear drops
- Quickly back to Ventana
- Tim/B – spearfish for dinner – Sierra (totally forgot!!!)
- Alex’s ear got worse & worse, couldn’t eat dinner
Email to family and friends dated September 4, 2013
Subject: Alex ear infection
We left BLA village yesterday headed back to La Gringa but the wind died and we ended up staying at a great little anchorage off one of the small islands called Isla Ventana. Last night there was a chubasco alert. Basically, there was convection all up and down the mainland and in our area it had made it about 1/3 to 1/2 way across the sea by 8pm. We prepped for the worst, but luckily didn’t see any winds over 27 kts. Back at the village they saw high 30s and a bit of swell, but not too bad either. The lightening seemed to be all around us so I thought we were going to get nailed for sure, but it seems we escaped again. We went back to the village today, because Alex’s ear ache flared up yesterday and was worse this morning. We had self treated an ear infection with azythromicin a couple weeks ago, so since there’s a clinic at the village we decided it couldn’t hurt to get some help. The doctor there spoke a bit of English and we took Kyle (13 yrs old from Lady Carolina) with us, who speaks pretty good Spanish, so we got along pretty well. She gave us amoxycillan and ear drops, so hopefully that clears it up. It is a free clinic but they accept donations of anything you want to give. I gave them 200 pesos, which is less than $20, and I have no idea if that’s enough… I guess if the treatment is successful I can always go back and give them more. The worst part of all this is Alex can’t dive or swim. Tim and Brenden are our spearfishing and Alex is stuck here with mom. I offered to play a game with him but he’s deeply entrenched in the 3rd book in the hunger games series, so he’s not interested.
Maybe he’d play if Grandma were here.
Love and miss you all.
-D.
Logbook – September 5, 2013 (La Ventana)
Daily Notes
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- Alex had a rough night. Up at 4am for more advil & drops
- Better when he woke up
- So many turtles in this anchorage – they are loud mouth breathers
- T/B spearfish – trigger fish for ceviche
- A/Mom – game of rummy cube moving around the boat escaping the sun as the boat swings
Gresham Family Exodus 