Pos: here
Loc: on the water somewhere
Acc: Navy boat
Dist: 67 km
Start: 6:50 End: 16:55
Tomorrow’s estimated landing: Buenaventura
It was a HOT day, no wind until 3.30 pm, dead calm oily water, good current perfectly into my direction, and good speed. But deathly boring…
I decided to cut across the bay as I am used to and as I’d do being just by myself, paddling through the calm night then – no detours. The direction was Juanchaco, despite I’d not be landing there. I am rather welcome to visit Buenaventura tomorrow night, which was not really on my way, but Capitán Delgado is waiting there and I’ll be happy to greet him there. Means I’ll be paddling tomorrow another 65 km into direction Juanchaco, jump on the boat, and we’ll drive to Buenaventura in less than an hour. Paddling would take me two days extra. Still the loop is closed. I will stay one day in Buenaventura!
The boat I had today with my new Buenaventura crew was as silent as it can be, keeping a good distance behind me, and I didn’t notice them at all. Not really many other boats around out here…
My kayak is a bit squeezed in on the left side, but my bow sleeping compartment has more space. The guys are sleeping as usual in hammocks across the boat.
So nothing exciting today, just endurance. But nice company at night!
8 comments on “Fri 15/02-2013 Day 395”
Great pictures, interesting blogs as usual. Good to hear it’s running so smoothly with serious distance coverd. Well done Freya.
very good fotos
Hi Freya, thanks again for the marvellous pictures. The Gorgona prison is very scary and very fascinating – definitely looks like a movie setting, very hard to imagine that this was quite real until quite recently.
I case anyone is interested: “your” bird on the stern in 7 Feb was a Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus); the guy standing “on” the water on Feb 12 was a Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus) and the one taking flight from a pile of sticks in the middle of the sea (although it may have sat there there can’t really have been a nest, these things nest on land) looks like a Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster). Could someone else identify the reptiles, insects and plants please? 🙂
@ Karen: I love your comments.
Greetings from the “Grey town on the sea” (very grey today), Barbara
Hi Freya. Yeah I remember going out to Galapagos on my boat in 2000. The Gulf of Panama is famous for no wind all the way.We used a LOT of fuel.
So how long to the Canal entrance? 2 weeks at your usual pace.? Did you get my comment that the best way through would be to sign on as a ‘line handler’ on a yacht?Yachties are usually very friendly and most would take your boat as deck cargo I’m sure. Dont know how you would find the yacht. Maybe a ‘Call out’ on facebook the way you were doing in Australia?
But I do know you will find the whole transit fascinating and a LOT of fun.
And again , thank you very much indeed for all the top rate blogging. Its is an inspiration for this retired old yachtie, as it is for your many followers I am sure… Enjoy!
Saluti to the Buenaventura crew. Guardians and companions. Bon camino Freya.
I love the Pos: Here! It feels liberating to be in the moment and not worry where you are. Freedom in not being busy. Loc: on the water somewhere! Liberated from having to be somewhere at such and such a time. Good for you Freya. Practice more and more being in the present. Then there will be more letting go of the believe in the fixed permanent self. well done kicking back 67km. In Kindness, Karen
Just looked at the new and older photos. Lots of nice and interesting photos. thanks for sharing them. You’re looking as pretty as ever by the way.
Glad to hear all is well. Safe Paddling and fair winds and water,Boring beats risky.Randall
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