Languishing in Lagos

Well again we've arrived somewhere intendng to stay a few days then move on - but no we haven't moved on, we're still here 2 weeks later.

Mark has been busy putting more technical toys on the boat, making it even more complicated!! He's been installing toys to enable us to get do three things:

1. to get weather reports through the SSB radio - why do we need it?? To get weather reports while we're at sea, that's why - don't you land lubbers know anything :-)

2. to get our emails while at sea - it downloads the headers for our emails then we can choose which emails to download in full - we'll be trying that out on this next voyage and

3. the ability to track where we are - the link on the right 'Track our Progress' opens up a satellite map to show where we are and where we've come from, it updates every 12 hours. When you've looked at the map just use the explorer back button to get back to the blog. That's quite neat really.

It's enough to make you go cross eyed thinking about it. If I ever end up at sea on my own none of these technical toys other than the GPS and the Radar will be of any use to me!!!

Lagos town is all dressed up for Xmas now, the palm trees are all lit up, they look lovely. The boats in the Marina are having a competition for best dressed boat for Xmas. Dressing the boats and attending Xmas parties is a little suburban for us, we'll see what it's like when we get to Greece, don't think there are as many people live on their boats there.

Xmas tree Portuguese style

It seems strange that Xmas is so close and the weather is still warm and sunny most days, I haven't really given Xmas a thought yet. For the build up to Xmas we'll be making our way across the med to our winter home. My last few days have been spent shopping, cooking for the freezer and generally getting ready to leave here as soon as the weather is good. There's been storms in the med so we've been waiting for them to calm down.

That's all for now, tomorrow we leave Lagos and hopefully the next blog will come not just from a different port but a different country.