🇬🇧 What a day! It all started well at anchor in the Las Perlas. We went to give the underwater hulls a thorough final clean before the Galapagos. A diver will check the hulls on arrival – if any growth (algae or barnacles) is found on the hulls, sailors are sent out 40 nm offshore …
🇬🇧 Panama Canal crossing – 18th February Crossing from the Atlantic into the Pacific was a big step for us on our circumnavigation. We were quite excited beforehand! We took our friends Irene and Peter from SV Zapoli and Kirsten from SV Pijama Republic along for the journey through the Panama Canal. 3 locks up, …
🇬🇧 Boat jobs It’s been a busy couple of weeks at Shelter Bay Marina. To name but a few of the activities:• Rigg check• Engine service• Fixing the wobbly Outremer chair for the tiller• Repairing the bathroom door for the second time• Cleaning underwater hull (full disclosure: we had a diver come to do this …
🇬🇧 Fort San Lorenzo We couldn’t leave Rio Chagres without a visit to the Fort San Lorenzo at the mouth of the river. This was built in 1598 to protect the entrance to the Rio Chagres, the main route to the Americas, of crucial importance to the Spanish conquistadores. The fort was under almost constant …
🇬🇧 Exploring the Rio Chagres We took a short break from Panama Canal passage preparations to relax and recharge our batteries in Rio Chagres. It was Wild Thing²’s first visit to a river. But not just any river! Rio Chagres is in the middle of the rainforest. The intense green colours of the dense trees …
🇬🇧 Daily cruisers‘ life in the Guna Yala While anchored in the Guna Yala (San Blas), you come to look forward to the visits of the vegetable boat, the fishermen, the Kunas selling molas. The Kunas are generally very friendly and it was nice to try to find out a bit about them, for example …
🇬🇧 Heavenly days in Canbombia We spent a few beautiful days in the anchorage of the ridiculously pittoresque island of Canbombia. The days were filled with school/ playing at the beach and in the water/sundowners with buddy boats Miles Away @milesaway2022and Cinnamon @five_go_to_sea. Life was so perfect here that I somehow „didn’t find time“ for …
🇬🇧 Rio Azucar, Guna Yala Did you know that of the 365 Guna Yala (San Blas) islands, supposedly only 36 are inhabited? Whilst I am not sure that this is true as we have seen Guna huts on several supposedly uninhabited islands, only few islands are as densely populated as Rio Azucar near the mainland. …
🇬🇧 Green Island, San Blas Just as we were really running short of fruit and vegetables, a Kuna supply boat stopped by today in our new anchorage off Green Island. They had everything you could wish for! Everything seems to cost 2 USD a pound – makes for easy calculation. We gave the boy a …
🇬🇧 Today, the children had their school break on Gunboat Island. Games included stand-up paddling (to get there and back), climbing up a palm tree and a badminton match (Hugo remembered that we carry badminton rackets on board last night – and we have never used them!). After lunch we navigated out of the reefs …