We departed Cabedelo, Paraíba after clearing out on 1st November 2014. Unfortunately our plan to visit Fernando De Noronha; the beautiful archipelago of 21 islands & islets located off the Brazilian coast was cancelled because when we cleared out, according to Customs, Raptor had overstayed her visa! 💔
We've always been very diligent about our visas, so this really caught us by surprise. We blame it of course on the language barrier, afterall "nós não falamos portugues". No doubt Customs must've informed us about this at some point? But when, where, how? We'll never know..
Broken hearted, we headed off to Galinhos.. another small town in north Brazil.
It was a rough passage. 60 nautical miles northeast of Galinhos we had winds blowing at 17-20 kts. At the entrance, we had 30 kts of wind and had to put the engine up to 1900 RPM.
We've always been very diligent about our visas, so this really caught us by surprise. We blame it of course on the language barrier, afterall "nós não falamos portugues". No doubt Customs must've informed us about this at some point? But when, where, how? We'll never know..
Broken hearted, we headed off to Galinhos.. another small town in north Brazil.
It was a rough passage. 60 nautical miles northeast of Galinhos we had winds blowing at 17-20 kts. At the entrance, we had 30 kts of wind and had to put the engine up to 1900 RPM.
Rough, but we made it! Anchored off Galinhos (S 05.05.830 W 36.16.379) on 3rd November. Lots of donkeys in this village.
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We took the dinghy to explore up river, where we found a salt mine.
We also found a huge wind farm.
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