03/11/2010, Shelter Bay
Here's another shot of Lil McGil in her favorite pose. Life is tough for a cat on a boat, .... right???
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03/07/2010, Shelter Bay Marina
This Lil McGill update blog was requested by a friend and former co-worker from back when I actually had a job and "worked ....???? #$%^&*" named Mark Williams. So, here it is.
Well, Lil is loving being in a marina again and having access to a hose and water. You see, Lil loves a shower. She doesn't know that she's a C-A-T and not a dog. She goes up to the bow of our boat and rubs on the coiled hose and meows in her best begging voice. When we're anchored out, the water that we make onboard via our Little Wonder 200 Watermaker is very precious so she only gets a rare shower now and then. Sometimes, we humans only get one every other day so she's SOL. Other than a daily shower, her favorite past times are still eating, sleeping, and hanging over the toe rail of the boat like a gargoyle watching the fish. That's about it.
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02/09/2010, Shelter Bay Marina
We arrived back at Shelter Bay Marina on Saturday, 2/6, to find it under construction and inundated with not only the normal flood of boats but about 50+ ARC and 30+ Blue Water Rally around-the-world boats that were trying to find slips so that they could get ready to go through the Panama Canal. Bryan and I got the last slip available (65') and the two other boats with us, Nereia and Zydeco, were placed on the new partially finished dock with no water or power (Thank goodness they're only paying half price for the inconvenience). There are big gaping holes in the dock where the marina finally threw some plywood boards across. For the past two days, boats have been coming and going, rafting up along each other where possible and anchored bow and stern by the mangroves next to the marina. Its like a game of 'Musical Chairs'. Finally Nereia and Zydeco were moved into regular slips and 'Uhane was moved to a smaller slip. This is probably the ultimate international marina since its the 'only one in town.' You wouldn't believe the variety of people and languages. Its educational in many ways. I'll say no more...
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Found your Blog and enjoy you photos. You and Brian are really living the Life of Reiley. I know it's been forever but I still look for you on the water and love to look at the pix of us and the kids, you were the best friend and I'm sorry we lost touch. We have a 23 Precision out of BCYC now and learning to sail the BIG boats. Have fun going around the world and tell Brian we say Hello. I hope we see you both again some time!!
Carolyn & Gary Herr - your old opti buddies at SPYC
02/04/2010, San Blas/Kuna Yala, Panama
Cruising has at least giving me an education. One of my first discoveries when we got to Mexico and then traveled down the coast of Central America was that starfish are NOT white. I was amazed that they are REALLY bright yellow, orange, or deep red. The ones I've always seen in gift shops in Texas and Florida were either white or off-white..... silly me! Bryan laughed and explained that the ones I've previously seen were DEAD. Who knew?!?!? Please excuse my ignorance.
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02/04/2010, East Lemmon Cays, Panama
Well, I guess everybody has to have a pet.... Just before we left the East Lemmon Cayes, San Blas this fellow cruiser pulled in next to us. We has a metal hulled junk-rigged schooner. Its a very cool looking boat and we've run into him at several different anchorages. This was the first time that we've been next to him and spotted his pet chicken. He picked it up and plopped it into his dinghy and took it to shore for a walk, .... I guess. Probably also in search of some local bug delicacies. He said that he brought the chicken along for food but got attached to it. Tee Hee!
We leave tomorrow for Portobello to spend the night then back to Shelter Bay Marina outside Colon, Panama.
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01/31/2010, East Lemmon Cays, San Blas/Kuna Yala, Panama
We didn’t realize it has been so long since we posted a blog. Time slides by in it’s island time way and before you know it it’s still now, just later than it was. Since Esnasdup we’ve been to Nargana (for a couple of hours), Green Island (about 3 miles NNE of Nargana), the Eastern Holandes (about 6 miles NNE of Green Island) and have returned to the East Lemmons.
It is difficult to make an interesting blog from each island or group of islands; they would be repetitious. Our days revolve around similar activities. After visiting several anchorages the uniqueness of each is what makes the days different also (That, and the arrival of the veggie boat -- the veggie boats will be a blog of their own). Anchorages are physically different from each other, in configuration and holding. Palm tree and mangrove islands should all be about the same, they’re not. A reef is a reef, right. NO. Some are from Grimm’s Fairy Tales and others look as if butterflies should be leading you on tour. And, a 2 knot drift snorkel down an eroded chute through the backside of a reef should not be missed.
Kuna Yala is hard to explain day to day. Our trip is a continuous accumulation of sites, sounds and tastes (there are some really good cooks on other boats). We’ll try to give the flavor of the area, even if we can’t describe it day to day.
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