Yesterday afternoon we left the Port of Aden after a really enjoyable stay and are now anchored off the village of Ras Al Arah seventy miles to the south. This will be our last stop before passing through the Bab el Mandeb straights and into the southern part of the Red Sea. The Yemeni coast line is pretty spectacular with sandy mountains fringing the water and small fishing villages scattered in what seems the middle of nowhere! We've been approached by a lot of fishermen in skiffs and they all seem extremely friendly and are willing to trade fish for food, cans of coke or cigarettes.
We plan to wait here until Saturday when we should have more favourable southerly winds to help us through the straights and then on to the town of Massawa in Eritrea about 300 miles north on the African coast. We're traveling in company with three other yachts which is a much more comfortable group compared to the twenty seven we arrived in Aden with!
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