Machu Picchu 13:26.60S 72:44.85W 1st camp @ 9000ft 27th April. We drove through Andean Peru as it awakened to another bright sunny day of toil. Shiny clean, uniformed school children rushed down to the main road from their farm homes to catch the school bus, as their grandmothers, tall hatted in their thick, knee length …
Leaving Lima for Cuzco 26 Apr 2016 12:12.18S 77:10.44W. The case of the lost handbag and Lost Portaloos Hotel We were herded, like a sack load of jungle frogs, into the departure lounge of Lima Airport bound for Cuzco, no room to move but a good opportunity for a chat with Wendy and Peter from …
On the Road to Guayaquil 12th April 2016 Yesterday we left hot & humid Bahia in a Reina Del Camino, Queen of the Road coach passing donkeys grazing the roadside towards Guayaquil. Cattle grazed in fields, each with their single white egret companion. Plump horses and more private car ownership suggested a more affluent population …
Zoonie Crosses the Equator 02:00.36N 80:12.91W Nearing the thin blue line, Neptune’s Parlour Happy Easter Everyone! The Equator is only 120 miles ahead of us and one of the presents we will send Neptune is the shackle Rob sawed off the end of the anchor, linking it to the chain so we can re-feed it …
Waiting for the Blue 8:37.4N 79:01.8W V formations of cormorants and pelicans move purposefully across the sky, sometimes there are the two types in the same formation, led by Mr Pelican. We creep from our anchorage at 06.32am leaving behind oily brown water filled with manmade and natural detritus, pass the last anchored ships, Top …
Flamenco Marina Panama The morning after our transit we moved around into the Flamenco Marina and had to say goodbye to our new friends who had been such fun and made the whole experience pleasurable. We are used to being just the two of us on board and having good company was a rare treat. …
Zoonie Transits the Panama Canal 29th February. Time for our Panama Canal ‘Leap’. We had a final walk up a different grass track from the marina and saw bright orange Julia butterflies alighting on leaves around us. Smart black-bodied capuchin monkeys with golden heads and shoulders watched us from above and as we returned …
Upwards to 14:09:35N 73:51:83W Not only the evidence from our viewing the weather grib files but also advice from John Halley, the Manager of Shelter Bay Marina at Panama, warned of unusually high winds around the Colombian Low this year causing coastal waters around Barranquilla and the Magdalena River where the low is centred and …
12:0483N 68:51.73W Caracas Bay to Willemstad Windy Spanish Water and the road to Willemstad. The buses are an interesting mix of public (cheap and air-conditioned but intermittent) and private 9 passenger with all windows open, and expensive vans which are frequent and often pre-booked and take people to and from their own doors. So with …
14:05.25N 65:11.92W. Half way to Curacao across the Caribbean Sea. The pelicans had already started crash diving for their breakfasts in the marina when we brought our stern lines aboard and Zoonie motored gently forward, with a short halt for Rob to release our bowline from the buoy. Then I gave Zoonie a burst ahead …