Golfo Dulce and Golfito, LandSea Services

Our stay in Golfito is coming to an end. Costa Rica as well as all central Latin countries make you leave after 3 months, so we will be heading to Panama soon. Meanwhile we have enjoyed some great hikes and trips around Golfito and Golfo Dulce. Enjoy these pictures of our Golfito tour as well as Rincon further north in the Gulf. The top picture is of Tierra Mar or LandSea services, the wonderful marina where we have landed our dinghy for the past 3 months. There are fantastic showers, cold beverages, and a cruiser lounge where we do internet, watch TV and movies. Tim and Katy are great folks who welcome cruisers and host many delicious potlucks, not to mention Tim's delicious coffee every morning. We consider this a "home away from home" complete with enough animals so we all can get our "pet fix"!

More visitors, Brian and Nancy

More visitors from Boulder, the Sperrys. Brian and Nancy met us in Golfito in their rental car and we spent a few days in Golfo Dulce, on Batwing, visiting the furthest north reef for morning fishing and swimming then ended up trying to find the animal rescue place, failing that, found the Orchid Gardens that are only accessible by boat. We survived a rain storm and made it back to the anchorage in Golfito intact. Next on our agenda was a trip to the Osa penensula, the most desolate part of Costa Rica where we found many Coti and Scarlet Macaws. Next we headed to the Chirripo area to a lovely animal sanctuary sloths and birds, and after a trip to teh cloud reserve Chirripo, said goodbye to Nancy and Brian. It was again too short a visit but lots of fun!

Visitors, Kathy and Julie

March in Western Panama brought us our first guests from Boulder Colorado. Kathy and Julie who managed to find us in out of the way Boca Chica, with a little help from a blog entry and other internet sites. Yay for the internet! They joined us at Frank's for dinner and then we headed out to the islands to enjoy Paradita and Gamez for a few days. After returning to Boca Chica, we found the tribe of Howler monkeys and had a great time snapping pics. Later we hopped into a bus and went to Boquette in the mountains for a taste of altitude and cooler climate. Although it was altogether a too short visit, we had a blast!

Along the Panama Canal

The Perles in Panama

We left Tumaco, Columbia and had a 4day sail/motor to thePerles Islands where we became re-acquainted with the sun. Our holidays were full of swimming,snorkeling, kayaking,sailing, and re- uniting with old and newfriends.Isla Contadora panama
Janet from Bambalero and Diane kayaking in Espiritu Santo
Hotel grounds in Contadora
Swim beach in Contadora
Christmas turkey fish n Espiritu Santo, Ernie from Laren Grace hosts the event