Photos, Panama City January 2010

I am finally able to begin to update the blog with photos and comments. Hope you enjoy reading and viewing our adventures from early January on.

In the background is the fast “ferry” we used to go back and forth to Isla Taboga, where Fortuitous spent the summer.

After returning from the Perlas, and before Jeff and Sarah arrived, we purchased a Kayak for Greg and Ralph. This is Greg paddling on the maiden voyage, out to Fortuitous in Balboa Yacht club.

Greg has had great use of it, but one of his first chores was to rescue a fender lost from Fortuitous.

While in Balboa, we were very privileged to have this Mexican tall ship pass by.

All the crew members, in their sparkling white uniforms, were standing in the rigging.
What a beautiful boat!

What a spectacular sight!

Another different type of ship viewed from Fortuitous' cockpit.

Greg doing up-the-mast boat chores.

My inside-boat chores...trying to figure out what to cook for the transit, as well as how to feed the hoards aboard with what I had aboard!

When Jeff and Sarah arrived, we had very little time for sight-seeing. However, we did go to visit Casco Viejo, or old town, where we had a few drinks and a nice lunch.

Trees growing right inside the shells of old buildings.

Or, on the outside. See the roots!

I loved the laundry. A painting waiting to happen.

Greg had already seen this area, so he was a little bored, I think.

Ralph took Jeff and Sarah to the Miraflores locks and the museum. I'd already been twice, and Greg once, so we declined.

Inside the museum was a computer to research the names of those who were the original workers on the canal. We actually came up with a Kallberg!!

Here we are having a drink in the Balboa Yacht Club.

The crew relaxing in the cockpit, before the big canal transit the next day.