Guatemala

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 […]

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 […]

Well it has been long hot days working on the boat. The humans have finished the last of the exterior woodwork.  Not a stitch of varnish left on the outside of the boat.   It has all been replaced with Coelan, so this should greatly reduce the amount of woodwork in the […]

I let the humans off of boat work so they could do a little sight seeing.  They did their best to fit as much as they could into one week. Why one week, you ask?  Well that is exactly how long friends are coming to visit from England. Perhaps they are less […]

The adventure continues with our guest bloggers telling us all about sight seeing in Guatemala.  We left you on Lake Atitlan. A long drive from Lake Atitlan to the RIO DULCE Dulce River (Spanish: Río Dulce, or “Sweet River”) is a river in Guatemala, completely contained within the department of […]

Thunderstorms and flooding on the Rio Dulce I know we are in the rainforest, but does it have to rain so much.  The temperatures here are well over 30’C and the humidity ranges between 70-90%. It is usually clear during the day, so the humans do their best to get […]