While Nic was staying in Turtle Cay working on Rua Hatu and the dinghy as well as looking after the pets, I departed Panama for a summer trip to Europe to visit friends and family in Germany and Croatia.
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Greetings from sleepy Turtle Cay Marina during the peak of summer and the Atlantic hurricane season. While Janine visited Europe, I spent my days working on various boat projects, hiking with Kiwi and enjoying the remote Caribbean coastline. Take a look at what happened while the storms raged offshore.
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After two short sails from Shelter Bay, we arrived in Turtle Cay Marina. There we settled in and got to work ordering parts, upgrading our plumbing and generally enjoying this remote marina on Panama’s Caribbean coast.
Continue reading “A Quiet Paradise Named Turtle Cay”Arriving in the Caribbean (Part 2)
The pace at which we made our way from the Pacific and through the first set of locks on the Panama Canal was astonishing! But after an early morning start and a long day of motoring, a series of delays kept us moored on Gatun lake for two nights, only a stones-throw from the Atlantic Ocean and our new sailing grounds in the Caribbean. After several false starts and a lot of time on the phone, we finally made our way down the last set of locks and into Shelter Bay Marina.
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We safely return to Panama and decide on our next steps as the season for sailing south has come to a close.
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