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We are currently in Providencia: another Colombian island but 130 nm off the coast of Nicaragua.  Providencia is linked to the island of Santa Catalina (by ‘Lovers’ Bridge’), where Pirate Captain Morgan’s remains are buried (or so the story goes) but despite swimming off Morgan’s Head, checking out the little caves and keeping our eyes […]

After a two day sail we arrived at the San Andres outer buoy and found ourselves being escorted to our anchorage!   We have 24/7 security from the Navy and we have been given a great welcome to this small Colombian island off the Nicaraguan coast.     To date we’ve been snorkeling in the crystal clear waters […]

Thanks to S/Y Silver Lynx we were able to transit through the Panama Canal as line-handlers.   We joined the yacht in Shelter Bay at 1pm on Sunday and motored to the ‘flats’ where we anchored to await the arrival of our adviser (Victor).   Once he’d arrived we set off, entering the lock system around 8pm […]

What an amazing visit.   We left the marina in our coach for a tour through the National Park to the Fort of San Lorenzo to hear tales of Henry Morgan as well as seeing howler monkeys, beautiful butterflies, a sloth and boa constrictor.   We then continued on to the Panama Canal where we spent […]

After a great and rather too exciting sail from Portobello, we are now in Shelter Bay and ready to explore this part of Panama.    As we approached the Christobal entrance, we radioed for clearance to enter the breakwater and were given permission to proceed.  We then had the unnerving experience of finding a tanker, which […]

We are now back in the land of internet and we are going to update our  blogs and website pages with photos and details of our magical time in the San Blas islands.   We'll post in date order and can only apologise for the overload in your inbox but hope that you will enjoy […]

After an ‘interesting’ exit from Isla Linton with 30+ knots of wind and seas of 3 metres we had an exceedingly fast passage to Portobello (discovered by Columbus in 1502).  Once we were tucked into the bay all the weather on the north coast became just a memory, so it is easy to understand why […]

Isla Linton, a private island, has now been abandoned and is home only to a family of monkeys who amazed us in their ability to walk upright, displaying so many human mannerisms.  We visited the colourful and simple villages of Puerto Lindo and Garrote - our first stops on the mainland of Panama.  We then […]

Salardup was the last of the ‘dups’ (meaning island in Guna) we visited during our stay in the San Blas.  Along with Makani, we anchored off the island in splendid isolation for 24 hours and were able to walk on prisitine sandy beaches, snorkel amongst rays and eat lobster sold by local Guna fishermen.   What […]

Banedup is a lovely island with bar, tables and chairs, music and a dock.  An ideal location for us to organise a party and that is just what we did for Valentine’s Day.   There were 20 boats from the Suzie Too Rally in the anchorage and 49 folk dinghied to the island in ‘fancy’ Heart’s […]