We left Tika at the Santa Marta Marina in Columbia while we explored Peru. Santa Marta is a working class city with a young, upbeat attitude and impressive graffiti. Music, played as loud as possible at any given moment (day or night) absolutely anywhere sums up the vibe of Santa Marta. It is a God-given right in Columbia to live ones life to a pumping soundtrack! Music blares on the street, in the supermarket, out of car windows, from boats and from the the many nightclubs that dot the beaches north and south of the marina…We loved roaming these streets where we found break-dancing and community drinking and jamming is alive and well!
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Santa Marta: the noisy city…some short, unedited and random footage outside the supermarket to give you a feel…
We celebrated Halloween, provisioned and worked hard to get Tika ready for her sail to Cuba. The mounts that had been promised to us before we left for Peru still had not arrived 2 days before we planned to leave so Russ had been pacing the marina and fruitlessly stalking the yard manager…they miraculously materialised the day before we set sail…
The marina was hot and noisy. We liked Santa Marta- we really did! but the marina got to us all in the end. Many nights were sleepless due to the endless parties, booming base and all-night karaoke. We all got a stomach bug and it was a LONG walk to the toilet block. I spent 3 days in my bunk sweating like crazy but too sick to move- not fun.
We left Columbia early in the morning and waved to the fishermen as we headed out of the bay bound for Cuba (a 3 night passage)
Next post: A rough, squally passage and De Ja Vue at Santiago De Cuba…
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