July 25th 2019
A tropical day. The initial plan was to do groceries today, but it was a 4 kilometer walk from the marina to the city center. We didn’t really feel like hiking that distance in the heat and then back again with bags of groceries. Besides, due to the heat the groceries would probably already be cooked when we would get back to the boat without even having been near to a frying pan.
We decided to do nothing at all. It was way too hot anyway. So we spend the day in the cockpit, which was luckily a bit shaded and took a swim from time to time to cool down.
In the evening we had hoped to sit outside and enjoy the evening breeze, because inside the boat it was still 34 degrees. But our plans were cut short. All of a sudden we were being attacked by a swarm of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. The lovely view on what turned out to be a sort of swamp has now become a severe nuisance, it obviously being a breeding ground for the nasty bloodsuckers. To hell with the view, we’re going to leave tomorrow.