A Pacific New Year 2013 with Canal Transit
SEE UPDATE REGARDING FEES after paragraph five On either side of the canal it’s easy to recognize boats aboutto change sides, because of the dozen or so car tires wrapped in plasticstacked on the dock...
View ArticleLas Perlas of Panama
A lowish tide on Contadora, and more people than you usually see in theother islands of the Las Perlas group. Las Perlas, an archipelago thirty-some miles southeast of the city, is a great change of...
View ArticlePanama Pacific Equinox
You could say we got out of Panama City just in time but, actually, we got out a bit too late. There was a nice wind opportunity, another of those North American cold fronts with a long tail trailing...
View ArticleStars for Christmas at Punta Mala and Cebaco, Panama
While much of the world was awash in Christmas wrapping paper and the rest snarled in daily routine, the two souls aboard Galivant were at sea, making their way around Punta Mala, Panama, moving...
View ArticleGulf of Chiriqui and Western Panama
Once around Punta Mala and the Azuero peninsula, we found ourselves in the Golfo de Chiriqui, which runs to the Costa Rica border at Cabo Burica. The Gulf is about 130 miles across, and contains...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Back In Panama
It’s the month of November when Panama’s calendar is larded with ‘fiestas patrias‘; such as independence from Spain, and independence, or ‘separation,’ from Colombia. Each holiday gets an associated...
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