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 …
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 …
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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Jana arrived!!! Yipppeeeee She arrived late December 8th. Poor kid had to work the very next day a first stroll around Linton heading to Portobelo by bus the church at Portobelo, Iglesia de San Felipe was it still in use? posing at the ruins of Portobelo the bay of Portobelo the two at the fortification …
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Island hopping from Achutupo. (11.11.22-7.12.22) A day at Mono Island, at San Ignacio de Tulipe and then 3 days at Aridup before heading to Nargana and reaching Green Island and the surrounding islands... the entrance of Mono Island Altimate still alone at Mono Island later Ruffian joined us; some Gunas were trying to sell some …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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