Cholon is a very interesting busy bay. The entrance into the bay is a bit of a finger nail biting situation.
You must hug these palapa bars in order to get by the shoal.

Once inside you see beautiful seaside homes along the beaches. The water is not crystal clear but it is very clean. You get wind but you do not get the waves as no fetch can occur.
It is a very secluded bay surrounded by mangroves. The water taxi takes the locals from the very poverish village Baru and the surrounding area through the mangroves into the town of Cartagena. To me this is quite cool. Their own water system that keeps them out of the oceans big waves. I am not sure how deep the water is throught the mangroves but we surely would get lost in the maze.

We spent the whole week in this bay waiting out the storm. The hurricane left its winds in the area and put us in the ITCZ. Those that follow the blog may remember that the ITCZ is the area of weather that has major lighning and thunder storms. I am starting to adjust to the storms and can now sleep through them without thinking I am going to get fried.

I am using new technology (to us) to write this blog and it may prove to be a very handy devise. A computer internet stick. It is tied into the cell phone. Now we were given 2 free weeks of use with the purchase. That will work great for downlowing internet weather sites that I cannot get on the SSB radio. When you get to a different country you put in a new sim card. We have already opened the cell phone to allow us to do this as we travel the Caribbean. All I can say is Canada is so far behind on internet. Our costs here are minimal compared to home.

Now on to a different topic. The plans are to now leave on Monday as the weather window looks quite favourable. Which is great as I have had enough of winds for awhile.
We have been in contact with a gentleman by the name of Herb that does SSB weather for cruisers and will be our own personal weather router keeping us safe. He works his magic from his home in Missisauga. How ironic a Canadian doing the Caribbean weather but he is good. He informed us we could leave Sun but unfortunately we would have to motorsail as there would be very little wind. We informed him we like it that way as we are a trawler. He just laughed and said that we were in luck then.

It should take 4 days to get through the rest of Colombia, enter Venezuela and get to Aruba. We will spend a little time in the ABC islands exploring then will continue on to the outer Reef Islands of Venezuela.
The song we want to get out of this place is playing loud in all our heads at the moment. We find it ironic that we first met Ernie our crew member in Charleston, Oregon where we both were stranded for 2 weeks waiting for favourable weather to depart. Now here we are again waiting for the favourable weather.
We always try to stay safe and do not take chances so here we sit. Oh well the swimming pool was 89F over in Cholon, there could be worst places to wait out the storms.