Well we gave up on ever having a dry day in the Darien region. I really wanted to go for a hike that was described in the cruising guide, but then Rob reminded me it had been pouring rain for at least 4 days straight and did we really have hip waders to get through soaking wet jungle?
So if the timing works out we’ll come back to the river and meet up with Nakia and Sarana in a week or so and hope there’s some sun then. But for now we’re heading north to the Pearl Islands (Las Perlas). It’s really bouncy out, with a southwest swell on our beam and some westerly and even northwesterly swell mixed in occasionally. The wind doesn’t know what it wants to do, even though all the forecasts said we’d have a nice southerly pushing us along today. Primarily it’s been about 5 knots on our nose.
We’ve got a 5:00 ETA into an anchorage on the south side of the Perlas. Tomorrow we’ll scoot up to the top of the island chain and meet up with Hello World and travel to Panama City with them when the weather finally settles. Axel asked if we wanted to race, and of course I say yes. How we’re going to come up with a handicap high enough to beat a Sunbeam 53 is going to take some pretty good imagination, but heck I’ll give it my best shot.
For now we’re just bouncing along north in Panama….
