Why the change in plans?? We were surprised when we re-entered Ecuador by air, that we weren't granted a new 90-day tourist visa. What they did was look up our records in the computer, and just continued our 'clock' from when we entered in February. As of June 2, we officially have 68 days left. Our understanding is that the automatic tourist visa is only good for 90 days per year.
We do believe there is a legal way to extend our visa for at least another 90 days. But just to be on the safe side, we figured we should hustle down to Puerto Lucia to get our haulout out of the way. That way, if we CAN'T renew, we'll at least have our bottom job taken care of for next 2-3 years. We understand we cannot apply for the extension until our current visa is about to run out.
So we are scheduled to haul at Puerto Lucia on Thursday afternoon. We'll stay there for a few days and get things settled, and then I think we'll take off for another trip while we let the bottom dry out. This time our target is Northern Peru.
We hope to return to Bahia in about 2 months when we're finished with the boat work in Puerto Lucia.
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At 6/4/2009 9:20 PM (utc) our position was 00°36.38'S 080°25.37'W
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