We pulled up our anchor Sunday 29^th of March, 2009 at 7am only to realize it was stuck, or fouled as they say. After many attempts I finally freed it and headed for a tiny Island called Contrador in the las Paerlas Islands, Panama 8:37.49N 79:01.79W

The weather is so hot that all we can do is keep out of the sun and drink beer. We have been snorkeling a bit and fishing however not a lot of luck. It is a totally new world for me her as the sea life is just non stop. There are millions and millions of fish in the water, hundreds of schools of bait fish and bigger predators swimming through them snacking as they go. To top it all off Dad and I were on deck in the evening where we saw 2 small sharks swim past, they were 3 feet each moving very slowly and then as there descended back into the relatively shallow, murky water mamma sharks tail fin came out of the water as she dived and it scared me half to death as it was about 18 inched to 2 feet tall just the top section alone. After discussing it with the boat next to us who also saw it we believe it was at least 12 – 15 feet long. To think 30 minutes prior I was swimming in the water right where it passed.

There is a hotel on this island or what used to be a hotel, it must be at least 400 – 500 rooms and it is in pretty good working order still except of a little bit of pillaging buy the locals. You will see a picture of Dad at the lobby bar, funny that that is the first place we wanted to check out. Anyhow it is a very strange place.

Day 248

Destination – Las Pearlas Islands, Panama

Traveling Direction – South West

Average Speed – 4.3

Total distance – 35.2 Nautical Miles