We walked the commercial harbour perimeter to reach the entrance road, lined with different businesses, shipping agents -not the authorities

Due to the light breeze, our SOW had dropped drastically to just 4.5 knots, whilst the SOG remained at 7 knots, sometimes more!

When going to the village for our daily internet fix we really needed to wait for the high tide to avoid sinking in the soft mud and sand.

With the flop of our previous day with the anchorage in Alcântara and now in São Luis with waves breaking violently on our stern

Our SOG getting lower and lower, as we were just past the middle of the bay we were doing only 2 knots and shortly after our speed was betwe

We were inside but noticed the jet ski looked like it had Coast Guard signs, so I came to the cockpit to see what it was all about.

the view was incredible, we could see the mangrove forest and river extending to our right and several dunes with fresh water pools

A very nervous 1h as we made our way through the narrow passage, but we did cross it without any hiccups.

But no, they had not mentioned this small detail of the use period matching our original visas, and now we had 3 days to avoid having to pay