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Exploring Portobelo

As a result of Portobelo being Spain’s hub of their plundering it became a target of folks like Drake, Morgan and Vernon. The bay was therefore fortified against attack from the sea. Yesterday morning we explored the remains of these forts. Our first stop was on the north side of the bay. The fort comprised […]

Portobello

The last morning in Shelter Bay was again busy. I ran the generator for a few hours to both condition the batteries and to make sure it was absolutely running smoothly. Normally I feel comfortable with the possibility of a generator failure as we usually maintain a high level of charge on the drive banks […]

Boat Cleaning and Trip to Colon

Today was another busy one. We started the day scrubbing the entire deck removing the last of the Cartagena grime. Around mid morning the admeasurer arrived to measure the length of Dignity and fill out the paperwork for our crossing. Later in the morning our agent, Enrique Plummer, arrived to collect our passports and boat […]

Shelter Bay

We had what I thought was a very exciting sail from our last anchorage to Shelter Bay marina. If we thought we’d been playing slalom with the tankers in the shipping lane it was now dodgems sailing into Colon bay. The bay is protected by a massive break wall and the entrance is marked with […]

Isla Naranjo Abajo

Sunday morning we did indeed get to see the sloths. Louis called us on the radio and around 9:30am we dinghied over to Sympatica and then over to a grotty beach nearby where we hauled the dinghy ashore and locked it up. It was a short walk along the shore path before we came to […]