After a lumpy run from Curacao during the night to Aves de Sotavento, DD anchored in front of the Coast Guard station at 06:30 hr, on Nov. 6th. Aves de Sotavento is a horseshoe shaped reef with a few little islands just 35 NM east of Bonaire in Venezuela. The largest is Isla Larga and houses the Coast Guard post consisting of 10 young coasties and one officer. The crew has to stay one month before being rotated back to base. It happens many times that the supply ship does not show up and the boys run low on food. Not long after our arrival the VHF radio cracked to life and a Venezuelan Coast Guard officer called: "White ship." Every boat is a "white ship" but this time they meant us and we weret asked to launch our dinghy and come to shore. A minute later they called us again and asked if we happened to have some ketchup for them. Of course we had. Before leaving Curacao DD had stocked up. Additional to food we bought two cases of Coors Light, which was on special at the Goisco supermarket in Curacao, but somehow in the haste we must have grabbed the wrong cases. During the trip, looking forward to pop a few cans, we discovered with tears in our eyes that both cases contained malt beer. Shiiit!! No one on board liked malt beer, so we added the malt beer to the ketchup and topped this package off with a 1.25 kg jar of honey roasted peanuts from California. A good thing we brought malt beer, the Coast Guard was not supposed to receive alcoholic beverages and the boys looked pretty young to us as well. I didn't tell them that the malt beer is good for breast feeding moms :-) Pictures complimenting this posting can be viewed at http://www.sailblogs.com/member/dieselduck Fair winds to all Benno and Marlene on "Diesel Duck"