Well it is June now. The official start of Hurricane season. What it really is, is the start of the rainy season. Sea temperatures increase, more evaporation, more hot sweaty days and rain. www.nhc.noaa.gov/ What is means for sailors is a mixture of calm light wind periods mixed with periods […]
Guatemala
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We have made it to our final country of the sailing season. The trip here was pleasant enough and we are anchored off the beach lined southern shores of Cabo Tres Punta. Unfortunately, for the humans, it shallows well off shore so they will be getting their exercise kayaking me […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
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 […]