The Castillo de San Felipe de Lara, Rio Dulce, Guatemala The ‘whining’ humans complained that they have been working too hard on the boat… sails stripped off the boat, shade canopies up, cockpit gutted and cleaned, bilges cleaned and repacked, forepeak cleaned and repacked, engine mounts cleaned and painted, oil […]
Yearly archives: 2015
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Wether you call this side of Guatemala the Western Caribbean or Central American it is a new and exciting place to discover. The humans needed to buy some food so I sent them to the town of Fronteras, the central hub of commerce here on the Rio Dulce. They were […]
We had torrential rains the night before we left our lovely anchorage in the jungle at Burnt Bay. After Lake Golfete the river narrows again and we had to pick our way through large clumps of debrea, large tree limbs and logs, washed down by the storm. There are a […]
With check-in completed in the town of Livingston, at the mouth of the Rio Dulce, it was time to go explore up the river. The river immediately narrows and we entered a long stretch of beautifully forested gorge. Unfortunately it was an overcast day and our pictures really do not do ‘this section’ […]
I have an internet connection so I can send you pictures and a few more details of our travels so far. We had decided to use the next high tide springs (a very large high water) to get over the ‘bar’ at the mouth of the Rio Dulce. Good thing […]
We made it over the bar, more like bumped through it, and anchored up at the town of Livingston. We called up Raul, our agent (see former post for contact details) and he arranged to have a boat load of officials delivered to our boat in half an hour. They […]