November 10 - December 31, 2022; 9596 nm and 1381 days after departure from La Rochelle. Well, after leaving the nice village of Achutupu we headed further west. We stopped at several small islands with names like Mono island, San Ignacio de Tupile or Anidup. In Anidup we anchored directly next to a beautiful reef. …
Arriving at Obaldía the most eastern village at the Atlantic side of Panamá Right at the border to Colombia. Here in Obaldía we checked in and were welcomed by friendly military officers. They control the border area, drug cartels are still busy in Colombia. Puerto Obaldía is the smallest and easternmost of the four corregimientos …
October 30 - December 31, 2022; 9596 nm and 1381 days after departure from La Rochelle. Its been a long time that I wrote the last blog. Oh yeah, I know! Now I have the problem that I don’t know where to start. My non-writing was not an issue of being too busy but of …
Off to Cholon for some lazy time but first some shopping ... and Ruffians farewell gathering reaching Cholon what a beautiful place after month in a marina it was soooo nice so calm and quiet and the funny water bar at the entrance of the mangrove bay https://videopress.com/v/wksEwxlx?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true That's how a happy co skipper acts …
From Santa Marta to Cartagena, we had a stop at Rodadero and Puerto Valero leaving the bay and the skyline of Santa Marta playa Lipo a little south of Santa Marta our first anchorage just a couple of miles around the corner, Playa El Rodadero, this place was a very touristic place, lots of Colombian …
October 07 - October 29, 2022; 9146 nm and 1318 days after departure from La Rochelle. It was such a nice feeling being back at anchor and not having continuously big projects in mind. There was finally time to do just nothing. So after splashing we just stayed aboard our pretty lady and enjoyed our …
Feature picture: coffee cherries getting ripe Minca was a peaceful little village in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains. The village was only a 45 min bus drive from Santa Marta. What an incredible change from city life to mountainous paradise. Minca and it's surroundings was such a nice green area, …
Medellín was definitely a cool place to be. A huge and busy city situated nicely in a picturesque valley 1500m high in the Andes. It provides a perfect temperature the whole year through. Sunny and hot in the day and comfortably cooler at night, so very different to Santa Marta's humid heat. And with its recent …
August 21 - October 07, 2022; 9029 nm and 1296 days after departure from La Rochelle. Hell, was I lazy regarding my blog. But, I have an excuse! We have been working our botties off. Why did nobody tell me that living on a boat could be so labour intensive? Most of the time it …
August 09 - August 21, 2022; 8901 nm and 1249 days after departure from La Rochelle. Yeah, finally we were in the relaxed mood to start exploring the -for us new- country and continent. Colombia is such a divers country. According to Wikipedia, Colombia is one of the world's seventeen megadiverse countries and has the …
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