The huge calm bay of Cholon Sunsets were always sooooo nice I could even catch the full moon with my new iPhone 💪 Dulce de panela- so yammi mad by a local who passed by; dangerous stuff as you can get addicted it was amazing that this boot was still floating El Capitano needs a …
May 31 - June 26, 2023; 10347 nm and 1558 days after departure from La Rochelle. Off we were again. The second time we left Cartagena. Who would have thought that a year ago? Certainly not us! Anyhow, we enjoyed Cartagena again very much but after 5 weeks of bustling city life we were ready …
The anchorage and some pics from the walled town arriving at Cartagena finally at the anchorage in the bay of Cartagena /Bahia de las Animas, looking south looking north to Torre del Roloj the bay of Cartagena, pic taken from the agency office dinghy dock at Club de Pesca the club to the other side …
April 28 - May 30, 2023; 10059 nm and 1531 days after departure from La Rochelle. Ups... that previous version of the blog post went out too quickly. Hit the wrong button and no possibility to get the notification emails back again. Sorry for that but here is the final version now.It was great to …
Coco Banderas and some visitors What a scary experience. Unexpected visitors made me get up fast like a rocket. I was happily sitting on the back of Altimate cleaning some fish. My legs were enjoying the cool water when suddenly a dark something appeared from underneath Altimate. Never ever was I that fast!!! My legs …
March 31 - April 27, 2023; 10019 nm and 1498 days after departure from La Rochelle. What does that even mean? Well, I think I already mentioned that El Capitano´s visa was overdue already back in February. So we needed to decide of what to do regarding El Capitano being illegal in Panamá. Due to …
Miriadiadup on our trip to Mariadiadup we caught a beautiful fish (horse-eye jack) we were so happy to be at anchor again our hook just in front of a reef and (I think) Niakalubdur in the right back Mariadiadup Cushla and Altimate in the back Mariadiadup the leaves of this roof looked so soft a …
Feb 26 - March 30, 2023; 9725 nm and 1470 days after departure from La Rochelle. Feature image: The birthday kids, me, Deb and Doghan Somehow it was a different vibe at this time of the year in Guna Yala. Many more cruisers were visiting the western islands. Some of them come every year from …
our meet up with the crew of Plan B, Monica and Joaquin, El capitano and Steve our host for the transit we were strolling around the marina and the close by Fort Sherman U.S. military reserve, a national parc with virgin forest here some remaining ruins of the base Kim (she was a good friend …
Some scary belated pics of our new years eve party in front Wolfgang from Steadfast spooky >Heike and El Capitano even some fireworks the nice swedish couple whose names I have forgotten A last stroll at the beach of Bug island /Banedup including beach art palm tree faces conch art that was the "wind wall" …
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