Agreat following sea.... 2 meters high. The video is great, hammering along at 9 to 11 knots, (max 14.3)
Would not like to be going the other way..
Life goes on as normal even at 12 knots... lunch with Katja
Look at this very carefully, left top side, strange orange ball in the sky, o' the north east, not the moon, the sun had set in the other direction... never figured it out... very odd.
Tony went bannanas early in the trip..
Des Amsterdam ... T liked the chick on the bow...
The old and the new.. Curacao...Williamstad harbour... not worth the visit... oiltankers everywhere. Its a big oil bunkering and refinary town...
Simple and fast.. FARRFLY goes Butterfly....
By Colon we had caught 4 Tuna, 6 suicidal flying fish, one wahoo, and released a huge sword fish.
Conrad caught this one although he seemed a little dissapointed.. a bit small da.. or wha'.
Real beauty... the perfect curves of a tall, slim, elegant, leggy, blonde. She's just my type...
Farrfly meets her first 'dug out canoe'... Kuna people of the San Blas islands, live exactly as they did 500 years ago, and seem perfectly happy with that... or maybe... we were in the tiny grass hut village buying some 'Molas' from the traditional old ladies, when one got a call on her cel-phone.. I blame dennis o brien...
Local naked native...
Every thing here is pure untouched clean and natural... The Kuna do not allow development on their lands. They are semi autonomous from Panama..
Cute... see he is getting hair... but the head is still growing.. need a new hat.. for a 4 year old..
Pictures are worth a thousand words, even then they do no justice to the natural enviroment and the peacefulness. The Kuna do not have a word for steal, they share everything so theft is not in their culture. The Panamanians seem to leave them completly alone. No police, no coast guard, no patrol boats.. perfect.
After another hectic day time for the boys to relax.
Mile upon mile of turquoise blue, polka dotted with hundreds of tiny green islands.
Old trees washed in from the rivers of south america..
I didn't know we weren't allowed buld here.. its only going to be a small shopping center and a marina!
Feeling blue, the Kuna have told him to knock it down... no planning permission...
Looks like the team is growing...
Indiana came along too...
Conrads 'Pocket Socket' just plug in the legs and get racing...
Look closely, 3 Kuna fishing the traditional way.. They get upset if you photograph them.
Don't let this fool you, he is as bad a driver as his mother....
Little terrorist..
Easy going by the camp fire light..
We cook fish and lobser over smouldering coconut nut shells.. much better flavor than carcoal or wood.
30 pound yellow fin.
Dodgem Boats... Like an armada, the enterance to the panama canal... the rough town of Colon in the back ground.. As we were were sailing we had right of way... yeh right...
Conrad doing the ships accounts... or maybe watching 'Wonder pets', it has become essential to defuse him with a little telly to get him to bed... He is in his element on the go all day... 20 months and still cant swim or talk!! but he does have 5 words.. mamama, boat, nein, out, down... interesting only one german word so far.. however I think he will kick off in german.. Katja his nanny is german...
So now we are in a nice little marina, about 10 miles from the town of Colon.. We are waiting for our transit papers and will know Monday when we will go through the canal. Could be anywhere from 4 to 10 days... there is a website where you can watch the canal live.. and will see us going through,,,. if you have absolutly nothing else to do!
thats all for now folks...
dc
No comments:
Post a Comment