Friends Jan and Ken are off to a Costa Rican adventure before flying back to SF and we are in full tilt GETTING STUFF mode. While our friends were here we went to the locks to watch boats transit the Mira Flores locks - only 2 of the 6 sets of locks that comprise the Panama Canal. The museum at the Mira Flores facility is wonderful. Both informative and beautiful, it contains history about the building of the canal and displays birds, insects and reptiles of the area - some live and others mounted. To give Jan and Ken a "cruising" type experience we sailed for the Perlas Islands and visited five in the limited time available. Did some great snorkeling and actually did some decent sailing, as well. Would have spent more time snorkeling but found large, beautiful jelly fish in some of the anchorages. Truly beautiful but not something I want to play with up close and personal.
So, back in La Playitta anchorage just off the approach to the Panama Canal and scurrying around each day to collect the items we need before traveling on to Ecuador. Many of the boats in the anchorage have departed already for Ecuador or the Marquesas and new boats have come to fill the anchorage from the Atlantic side of the Canal. There are flags of so many countries flying from the rigging. Boats from France, Belgium, England... very different than Mexico.
Sending this over the air waves this morning before heading off to town to hunt down new oars for the dingy, varnish for Ecuador projects and retrieve our laundry. The photos WILL be coming soon. Love to all
from the yin side.
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