Week 2 at Sea

Yay! i figured out how to log in on a spanish keyboard. there is a special trick to use the @ key you have to hold down the alt key and then 64 on the keypad.  not the numbers up top even! I am holding my own. The spanish is coming back ever so painfully and slowly, but my new friend Gina from columbia is very good to me and we practice a lot!

Tomorrow we leave Portobello, Panama and will take backpackers to Cartegena, Columbia. We will cook for them and take them snorkeling and spearfishing in the San Blas along the way! I can`t wait. I think it will be fun. This last 4 or 5 days has been a lot of work, but to me it has been great fun. We have crammed a little nissan suv full to overflowing full of food, batteries and fuel in quantities you would not believe and the four of us crammed in on top of all that. The back window is blown out so we inhale fumes and keep taping plastic over the window to try to keep it out! then load it all into small inflatable dinghies and haul it to the boats trying desparately to keep it onboard and dry!

I wish i could take more photos, but even so, i have no way to add them yet! It is incredibly colorful here. There are so many new sights and sounds. The howler monkeys (look them up online) they make such a horrible roar in the mornings and when it rains! I want to see one, but they say they are mean and dangerous! the little bait fish swim in huge schools all around me when i swim! the locals in their wooden canoes and simple handline fishing is all so amazing to me.

I was fishing off the boat and one came by. He showed me a small fish, but he was so proud! What an enormous smile on his face! later he stopped by and asked if i had a hook. his looked very dull! I didn`t have one like it, so i offered him a soda. then one for his friend! again, the smiles are so amazing! I stocked up on hooks like they use this time.

So much to say, but the internet is about to expire. all i can say is ¨life is good here!