a nice catch the day we arrived at the pooltypical weather in rainy season, the main shore was not visible and often overcastedwe met Uschi and Albert from USI, Albert took the pic and Anne and Reinhardcould have been the day of our first encounter with a Culo de polloand all of us enjoying Ibins food; Anna, Reinhard, Jürgen von Valentin and Albert and UschiHeike and Jürgen from Valentine invited us for a pizza at Ibins to celebrate their recent wedding, the weather was not so pleasantMyrta was showing us how to fast open a coconut, she did it within a minute; I tried to do it the same way and it took me 15 min, I need to improve my opening skillsthat was on Runner , Debbies boat, we had a potluck she invited a few boats to celebrate the 4th of July Ibins “over the water terrace” getting a roofthe water bar the “old” restaurant area, where we had our xmas dinner with the kidsone of the “roofer” , the boys were always in a good mood and providing enough material they could build a roof within a couple of hoursIbins brother in law and Myrtas husband José , a nice guy also always in a fantastic moodDebbie invited us for a dinner at Ibins, thank you dear!!Ibins bread as a pre starterconch ceviche we were eating and the boys were workinga conch I found but this one was too small to eatEl Capitano in thoughts?the new steps to reach the “water bar”my favourite drink pipa, coconut waterwe had invited Debbie for a German breakfast, fortunately we were just done when the squall reached us, not a “Culo de pollo” but a nasty wet squallDebbies mini aquarium on her boat, it keeps her busy finding small fish and then food for them, I had joined her when she found that little lionfishdeb used to be a hairdresser in NY, she offered me to cut her hair who can resist getting a professional haircut?some of Myrtas molasEmily from Restless which we had met first time on the 4th of July potluck, her parents and little sister came to visit themour last day in the pool we said goodbye to Ibin and Debbie and also to Myrta and her sister, am I that tall??? the sudden changing weather sometimes presented nice rainbowsthe pool, on the right “Runner”the day we left Ibin got the roof readyyyyyyybye bye Banedup
End of July we sailed to Colon with a short stop at Chichime and Linton Bay
passing the Lemon caysour anchorage at the Southside of Chichime and another sunsetback in Linton Baythat was a strange built catamaran with two masts without stays in the front of each hull, can´t imagine how the sailing is likeapproaching the entrance of Colon this coast guard boat passed us pretty close, the young mariners were friendly waving while passingbig ships everywhere, a huge difference to the San Blas areathis one came rushing out of another entrance, we decided to stay out of his way it looked a little to big for “who is cooler” gameshe was also fast, took only a few minutes until we were back en routethe entrance of the Panamá canal and this big monster just came through heading towards us… we made it😉don’t know what I was trying to capturethe entrance of Shelter Bay Marina
Shelter Bay marina
the bar and restaurantwe also met the crew of Usi, Olaf who we met on our trip back to San Blas from Cartagena and the crew of Segelbar; we had met them once in Dominica, a fun coincident coming togetherAlbert and El Capitanothe entrance of the marinaa tug boat which is used as a gas stationMatthieu picking up his line handlers, we were happy to help him with using our boat name; he was anchored outside the marina I liked that figure head, would suit Altimate toothe marina used to be part of the Ft. Sherman U.S. military reserve, it is located next to a national park with virgin rainforesta stroll through the military area only a few soldiers were still stationed therethe buses seemed very smallmany wracks at Colon harbourabandoned military houses right at the beach the road back to the marinathe water mirror
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