Crocodile Dundee
Gaviota
Wed 1 Jan 2014 19:15
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We left Contadora on Boxing Day and headed South
anchoring in the channel between the islands of Chapera and Mogo Mogo where the
TV series Survivor is filmed (neither of us have ever seen it!!!), the
anchorage was exposed and rolly so next day we motored (no
wind!) further South to a more sheltered bay - not very inspiring with
increasingly murky water. We had been told by a local that the islands in
the Southernmost Pearl Islands contained the largest polpulation of salt water
crocodiles outside of Australia - yikes I know Syd has been compared
facially to Mick Dundee but crocodile wrestling was not on my agenda so the
murky waters were not very enticing to swim in!
We managed a good spinnaker sail the next day down
to the largest island Isla del Rey which has some of the most beautiful, though
totally inaccesible by land, beaches but an even murkier sea! Although we
swam we both swam extremely quickly and neither of us enjoyed the water but the
beach made a perfect gym with an excellent sand running track.
We saw the New Year in (celebrated it UK time -
7.00pm Panamanian time) with our only visitors being 2 locals + dogs who were on
their way to hunt iguanas (apparently the local delicacy) - Syd was intrigued to
know a) how you cook them and b) what they taste like. With our minimal
Spanish these 2 questions were a bit tricky but after having to hand over some
biscuits our two visitors revealed that the iguana was split down the middle and
grilled, uhm can't wait to try one - not!!!!
New Years Day today and we have just left Punta
Cocas the Southernmost point of Isla del Rey and we are motoring (Syd is not
happy!!!), wind on the nose and very little of it so it looks like a long hot
slow journey to Ecuador! PS The fishing line is out . . . . . . .
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