6/28/09 to 6/29/09

Despite the forecast for building winds & seas, we sailed west to the Aves. Islas de Aves is actually two separate island archipelagos located about 10 miles apart.

Building Seas

Our first stop was Aves de Barlovento. The anchorage on Isla Sur faces a mangrove-lined coast that is home to a large population of boobies & other seabirds. We were fascinated as hundreds of boobies soared overhead, as if escorting us into the anchorage. Their aerobatic antics were an endless source of entertainment.

Anchorage at Isla Sur

Those Amazing Boobies

After spending the morning snorkeling, we dinghied ashore to bird watch & came upon a cruisers memorial.

We spent the following night anchored in Mangrove Bay at the south end of Aves de Sotovento, which unlike Isla Barlovento has no sea bird population. Obviously Barlovento is ‘the’ happening spot for the avian population.