The first thing I become aware of here in the Galapagos is that there are quite a lot of rules restricting my usual behaviour. We are used to exploring by yacht, dinghy, paddleboard and windsurfers. Finding deserted anchorages, freediving with the fauna, spearing the odd fish for supper, swimming ashore and generally doing exactly as […]
Month / April 2018
Bound For Galapagos
Day 1 Farewell Panama. Thanks for everything! Our first full day at sea. I think I already mentioned that this sea seems to be teeming with life. Today started with a fin whale close by as we left the last of Las Perlas astern. Then the manta rays started jumping. Really jumping! High back flips, […]
Quiero Viento
It is very hot and the wind is not really enough to motivate us to hoist a sail. We are waiting for some breeze to take us 850 miles across the Pacific to the Galapagos. Our GRIB file forecasts are relentlessly light and variable. So we have had a few days island hopping in […]
A whole new ocean.
Getting out of Panama was starting to feel like one of those dreams where you just never quite get where you’re trying to go. The weeks went by, antifouling, waiting for a rigger, waiting for the Watt & Sea, installing it, waiting for the canal transit date, provisioning, last minute jobs. Living in a marina, […]
Across the Great Divide
The two giant continents of North and South America were connected by a tiny thread of land, just 30 odd miles across, until 1914 when the Panama Canal opened for business. And what a business! An audacious civil engineering project that included the biggest dam ever built, the world’s largest man-made lake, and the locks […]
escapade sailing 