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You ll need an agent to check into San Andres, which can quickly be arranged with a call on VHF Ch. 16 on approach. We were much assisted by Rene Cardona of the Serena Agency for check in/out ($40, paid on exit), also for arranging a shipment from the States ($95 plus a reasonable service fee for a 4x4x4 container of parts from the States) and facilitating documents for immigration renewals. The Club Nсutico staff was unfailingly helpful, down to providing all the facilities for a gringos Fourth of July party and barbeque  hosting CAVALI, CONTIGO, ENKIDU, FEISTY, KIWI and LULU, along with honorary  Canadian gringos on BAHATI. We and most others anchored off the club s dock, felt their charges ($15/week or $50/month) for access to all facilities (best-value-in-town restaurant, TV lounge, protected dinghy dock with 24-hour guard, shower and restrooms, exercise room, tennis court and large fresh water pool) were well worth the fee. \ There are a slew of restaurants on the island, though none comparable to what you ll find in Cartegena or Panama City. Having sampled most, we found ourselves returning repeatedly to Antonio s La Pizzeria (best Italian food in many a nautical mile, at the traffic circle on Ave. Americas and Ave. Providencia, hot mid-day but great in the cool of evening), the Sea Breeze (bottom floor of the Hotel by that name; air conditioned and serves lunch) at Ave. Newball on the Barracuda circle and the Club Nсutico Restaurant (no air conditioning but a ceiling full of fans), where it was difficult not to have a tasty but amazingly inexpensive lunch after each morCHNKWKS <°    TEXTTEXT,)FDPPFDPP,FDPCFDPC.STSHSTSH0STSHSTSH02SYIDSYIDP0SGP SGP d0INK INK h0BTEPPLC l0BTECPLC Д0FONTFONTЬ0<TOKNPLC ╪0ВSTRSPLC Z1:PRNTWNPRФ1jFRAMFRAM■9ИTITLTITLЖ: DOP DOP ж:to San Andres, which can quickly be SAN ANDR╔S, COLUMBIA The more citified and sophisticated than Providencia, San Andrщs has far less physical diversity and natural beauty than its country cousin, but infinitely more shopping in this bustling little free port. Approach and anchorages. Leaving ample sea room to the east of San Andrщs extensive barrier reef, we steered a course for the main harbor s red and white entrance buoy (WP N 12║ 32.32 W 081║ 41.44) then followed the well-marked and lighted channel to the commercial dock and turning basin. The area beyond the turning basin is shoal, requiring a course through the fishing fleet closer to shore to reach the anchorage in front of Nene s Marina (the place to secure inexpensive Columbian diesel fuel and gasoline). It s possible to anchor here among the fishing boats but not generally recommended for security reasons. A better anchorage for cruisers if found 150-200 meters off Club Nсutico (extensive green-roofed structure just beyond the vast, concrete affair built by the infamous Pablo Escobar family that is the now state-owned Sunrise Hotel). But you cannot get there from Nene s unless you draw less than three feet. The approach to the Club Nсutico anchorage is made on entering the harbor with a turn to starboard between channel buoys Red  10 and Red  12 . In decent light you ll be able to see the deeper water (at least 9 feet) beyond the light green and brownish shallows surrounding Cayo Santander. Keep inside (but hug) the white-green sandy area farther to starboard toward the reef which it s quite shallow (the depths are not so shallow as the charts show but you have to stay in the narrow deep part). San Andres Ashore. The island has been covered recently and well (STORMY PETREL II, SSCA, January 2003) in these pages (see also the write-upning s  savings in the duty-free shops. In fact, we saved so much that visits to the islands many ATMs (U.S. $200 limit) were an all too frequent event. Frequent visits were also inescapable to the MiniRey (Ave. Providencia and Hellgate), which has well learned the pent up food-specialty needs of North American and European cruisers. We were pleased to find Centro Optico del Caribe for the professional services of Dr. Alcides Ramirez (first-rate eyeglasses at fraction of U.S. prices, Ave. 20 de Julio, No. 3-173, (315) 754-9689). We were ably assisted with our outboard motor repairs by Alex (315-369-6705), and by LeRoy Mitchel (038-512-2768) with our SSB problem. The gang of us who went diving with San Andrщs Divers (578-513-03-0347, sadivers@sol.net.co) were well pleased by their professional and safety conscious service and state-of-the-art equipment. Conditions permitting, they also take dive groups to Isla Bolivar and the Albuquerque Cays. Another amenity on San Andrщs is the Bell South cellular telephone service (located in the Sunrise Hotel shop complex) via pre-paid cell phone cards for local and long distance calls at surprisingly good rates. Better yet their phones can be reprogrammed, country-by-country, for similar service throughout Central and South America. It is now possible to remain (with visa renewals) in the Rep. of Columbia for up to six months each calendar year, but having stocked beyond budget and reasonable carrying capacity, ENKIDU was now fully  around the corner , positioned and ready for a relatively easy passage to any of the Panamanian ports abeam the trades. 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