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DAY 3 ON ROUTE TO GALAPAGOS ISLANDS We are now into our third day at sea and still have 500 miles to go before we

DRAMA’S ON THE HIGH SEAS & THE TSUNAMI THAT NEVER HAPPENED Our leisurely breakfast was interrupted by the local cruising VHF channel going red hot

THE PANAMA CANAL The Panama Canal is an amazing engineering project, it was first started back in 1880 and after several false starts and thousands

SHELTER BAY MARINA When you are cruising never have a time scale!! We still haven’t transited the canal because we found some water in one

CHICHIME, SAN BLAS Our time in the San Blas islands is finally coming to an end. We are booked to go through the Panama Canal

GREEN ISLANDS, SAN BLAS The San Blas islands are a vast archipelago on the Atlantic Panama eastern coast composed of 340 islands. The area is

ISLE LINTON From Portobello we did a short couple of hour trip to Isla Linton a shelter anchorage frequented mostly by yachties who often stay

PORTOBELLO Our first stop down the coast towards the san Blas islands was a 20 mile beat to windward to Portobello, which was first discovered

SWITZERLAND What did I say about broken bones!! – on our second skiing day in Switzerland I was tearing down the slopes trying to keep

SHELTER BAY MARINA, PANAMA It took exactly 36 hours to get from Cartagena to Shelter Bay marina in Panama – The first 14 hours we