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| Couldn't make up my mind which photo is prettier |
Just a few days before
Rita arrived when I cleaned boat and pulled the floorboards in the head out I
saw 5 little bugs running around. Nah, called Sid and showed him to identify.
He agreed as well that they are too small to be roaches. We killed them,
cleaned up and that was it. The second last night Rita was on board something
many clingy legs was crawling across my butt cheeks and freaked me out. My
instinct was to swipe it away including letting out a bloodcurdling scream. I
turned the light on immediately to see what it was but nothing on the floor. Do
you think any of the other 4 passengers heard me LOL. In all our cruising time,
I have to rephrase that, in all the years Sid owned the boat (39 years) the
only critter problem we ever had was a few roaches in Mexico that I caught
right away and ants in Venezuela but never an infestation. I was in town Sid
called and told me to bring lots and lots of cockroach spray with me there had
been an explosion of little baby roaches everywhere. He had been going through
the whole boat and found the first mama in his closet under a t-shirt, it had 3
legs missing, yep the one I had swiped off my butt. I did a lot of research
while in town. There are 3 different roaches here of which the German roach is
the worst, the female keeps the egg until just before her offspring hatch and
each egg has about 50 little ones. All of them once mature to lay eggs, I think
they mate once but they can lay eggs for the rest of their life without a male.
We were desperate to find out which type we were dealing with and after we
found a few eggs we placed them in a jar and watched. 3 days later about 15
came out of one egg, relief it’s not the German. When I returned we both went
through the whole boat, it looked like a tornado had hit it, every locker one
by one was emptied.
And still yet they kept crawling around after dark. I even
had some in my bed, that’s when I declared war. We started going through the
boat again and we did kill 4 big adults outside under dodger area. They were
the size of Palmetto roaches about 1 inch long and found eggs in Sid’s tool
cabinet which is close to the galley. Found them in the galley cabinet. One in
a roll of paper towel. The life cycle of a roach is one year and a female can
produce many, many eggs, just not sure yet how long before they hatch and how
often she lays eggs. Sid even took the headliner down and we found 4 eggs up
there. I think we got it all under control and every evening I spray around the
clean galley counter and into the sink to cut them off from water, plus the
bathroom sink. They can live without food for 40 days but only 7 without water.
They can be without air for 3 days and come back to life. Hey their body even
crawls around for 7 days with head cut off. No wonder they survived the ice
age. Anyway by doing this we found every morning a few dead little ones. Then
after 3 weeks maybe 2. We said we keep doing this until we don’t see anything
for at least a week. A buddy boat returning to the San Blas brought more
poison. By the way we use Baygon Ultra Verde awesome stuff, also some roach
cookies are left in all corners of the boat plus some areas with a paste.
We
are wondering where we got the beasts as we are careful with what we bring onto
the boat. We suspected from the veggie boats, but then we were told that
another boat who was at the same time in Shelter Bay Marina, across from us on
same dock, left at same time and had the same explosion same time we did. So
who knows?! Here is a photo of the egg so if you ever have this problem you
know what to look for.
Oh and when Sid went to
fill up our sun shower that sits in a box on deck it was crawling with little
babies, and I found a couple under the flower pots in the water tray, hasta la
vista baby. Check in any area there could be water. We are very thankful it’s
not rainy season right now. We will keep doing this sink spraying for 6 months
to make sure they are all gone.
After a whole week going
through boat roach hunting we finally returned to the Holandes.
Of course I brought pork
ribs again from Price Smart and that was our first dinner BBQ’d on Reg and Debi’s
grill. Since Reg didn’t celebrate Xmas with us he brought a turkey back and so
the second dinner we celebrated a Turkey dinner also on Runner. Nice not having
to cook and clean for a change LOL. We always have a great time with them. Sid
was spending his mornings helping Reg to clear part of Bug islands. I haven’t
seen the progress yet but will next time we are there and take some photos. I
did my snorkeling with Deb every morning.
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| Of course wing and neck were saved for Manuela |
Urs and Francine on Le
Point Bleu showed up with our Chelsea boat clock that their watchmaker had
repaired. He did a good job, hey what to expect from a professional Swiss
Watchmaker that has been in business for 40 years.
A rare thing these days, now
days they just change the battery on a watch. Check out Urs and Francine’s business
all their watches are designed by them and hand made a rare thing now days too.
Les Millionairs http://www.lesmillionnaires.ch/en
We had fun snorkeling with them and stumbled onto a sunken boat. We were here when it hit the reef I think 3 years ago.
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| Nurse shark |
While in PC 5 different
boats still in the Pool asked me if I could buy some stuff for them, four pounds
of butter and phone charger, another Sim and phone cards, another seasonings
and yet another cigars and medications they ran out of. With being stuck in Banadup due to too much
wind, plus our “cookies” fight (roaches). 2 of the boats headed into different
direction for protection from the wind, so when the wind was back to normal, we
had to make a decision where to go first to deliver the goodies. Butter was
definitely taking away space in the fridge but the meds were really important.
We were just going to head that way to deliver meds when that boat dropped
anchor next to us, perfect. The butter boat texted as well that they were going
back to the pool so that solved the problem. When we finally rendezvoused and
freed my fridge of butter, the lady knowing we had to still go to do laundry in
Nargana, insisted to do laundry for me on her boat. I wasn’t going to take her
up on it as it is lots of diesel and power use to run a washing machine plus
running the water maker. She was so grateful she kept insisting so I brought
two loads over mainly sheets. That was very helpful and we could stay a bit
longer here. She told me not to tell anyone, there for no names mentioned.
I did wonderful snorkels with Debi, one time as we snorkeled back to the dink, I was just passing a beautiful big rounded, orange coral head when I felt something staring at me. I stopped and investigated. I finally saw an eye and looking at it a bit more I saw a camouflaged big octopus, wow. I approached a bit closer but he did not move an inch. I got the attention of Debi and Diane who joined us that day and when they arrived I went a little closer to the octopus. They usually pull back and hide. This one had no interest even now that he was surrounded by 3 big faces with weird masks. He even did some tug of war with both Debi and my fishing net handles. After about 5 minutes of that he had enough crawled slowly over the coral head and descended to the sandy ocean floor and leisurely headed to the next coral head but could not find a hole to get in. He moved to the next and crawled underneath to the dismay of many fish including a beautiful Top Hat. They were agitated and not knowing fish talk, they must have yelled and screamed at him, he crawled out again while the fish moved back in. He headed across the sandy bottom in search of another hole. We could not resist to follow this beautiful creature as he all of a sudden opened up in to a giant fan in the color of the coral we had seen earlier. Wow amazing. He staid fanned out for a while then kept crawling along. The second time he did show off again he was more the color of the sand, telling us he definitely had enough of us molesting him. What a rare things to witness and of course “WHERE IS MY CAMERA WHEN I NEED IT!!!” I think he knew otherwise would have not showed off like this.
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| Not far from the other wreck is this of a big freighter |
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| Having too much fun |
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| And found dinner |
On one of the snorkels I
told Debi that I wasn’t feeling all too well and that I was constantly tired
for no reason and it got progressively worse. Our last evening in the pool Gris
Gris organized a fun potluck on BBQ Island with interesting Vegan dishes. The
following day we sailed to Nargana as more heavy winds were predicted. We
desperately needed to get Laundry done and top up on diesel, gasoline and propane.
Somebody mentioned on the
radio that Corazon de Jesus had now water and there was a lady doing a great
job on laundry. We don’t mind going up the river for that as it is fun but Sid
had a boo boo on his finger and I was not feeling well at all, I decided to test
Taty out. We brought here 2 loads just to see how well she does the laundry and
told her no rush that we would be here for a while. The main reason we came
here is Super Bowl for Sid. He said ever since he started watching Super Bowl
in his life he hasn’t missed one yet, don’t want him to miss one ever. Anyway,
the second day we went by Taty to see how it was going, she said she was still
bleaching, OK we said no hurry. Later on that day it hit me “bleaching” oh no
she was not bleaching all the discolored pillow cases that are going to be rags
including some of Sid’s T-Shirts. While I brought her the rest of our laundry I
picked up the ones washed and still not feeling well I left them in the bags on
the floor to deal with it when I felt better. Sid went into the bags and I heard
him say: wow…….wow…….. wow. So I ventured down below and couldn’t believe my eyes,
he had all his pants laying on the counter one next to another pointing them: “Look
there was a stain here, gone, and look these pants I fell on my ass that never
came clean again, snow white. But when he took his favorite T’shirt from 1980
out, he had tears in his eyes and said: Look my favorite shirt looks like new ,I
was going to toss it to the rag pile. Then opened up more T-shirts’ with same
results, he was like a child opening up big bag full of Xmas presents. As a
thank you I bought two bleach bottles and brought it to Taty, gave her a hug
and the two bottles of bleach telling her a thank you and present from Sid and
I handed her another present from me a necklace with matching earrings. As much
fun as the river laundry days are I think our laundry days are changing to
bathing and fun days up the river. I love a happy Hubby. Amazing what we cruisers get excited about
huh?!!!
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| All clean though |
Tuesday I went back and
got my result. I still don’t understand how I did not have any symptoms
whatsoever for what he called an acute UTI, but that’s what it showed I had. I
was worried it would be something far worse than that. The treatment is 7 days
of antibiotics then another urine test to make sure we got it all. We decided
that right after Super Bowl we would wait for the veggies to come in which is
Mon or Tues then head to the neighbor islands to do the Antibiotic treatment so
that I could also get some Internet stuff done, as the signal is much better there
than in Nargana. Sid watched Super Bowl ashore with 7 other boats and I enjoyed
a quiet evening on the boat playing my guitar, after all I still was not
feeling well.
The Veggies came in on
Tuesday and since the sky was overcast and where we wanted to go needs sun to
enter the reef so we prolonged it to the next day which was a good thing as Sid
started getting a bad stomach, it got worse by the minute then he was up all
night long visiting the head. He had food poisoning and knowing that you can
get it between 4 to 34 hours of eating bad food we did not know where he got sick,
on the boat or at Super Bowl. The only thing he ate different than me was the fried
chicken he ate at Jonny’s and a kuna bread that was in a ziplock bag in the
galley. I inspected it and OMG some of the bread had black mold on it. I read
up on it online and not a good thing. Sid was violently ill for 3 days but
refused to go see a doctor, why do men do that?
I went ashore to find some
Pedialite but found out all medications have to be bought at the clinic’s
pharmacy. There I was told I needed a prescription from the doctor, for
Pedialite? The doctor was just about to leave the hospital but offered me a
seat. He said Pedialite was not for adults but he had a better product. Wrote
me a prescription. Sid was not getting better, I suggested to go see the doctor
but he wanted to wait till Monday. On Saturday I went to the doctor again to
get a prescription for tests for Sid on Monday. Since Sid was so ill he wrote
on the prescription urgent that means the lab guy will have the results done by
one the same day and we had an appointment to see the doctor for that.
His blood work was
excellent but he had a bad case of amoeba. Doctor gave him a 3 day very strong
Antibiotic treatment and wrote him another prescription for another stool test
the following Monday. He seemed to get better but the diapoopoos didn’t go
away. He got worse and worse and by Monday the test showed he still had amoebae
and he was only 164 lbs as he had lost 20 pounds in just 2 week. Doctor also
said that there was puss and blood in his stool now that his stomach was
infected. Yikes, not good. On our dinghy ride back to the boat we debated
whether it would be best to head for Panama City. Doctor told me that they have
a big problem here with amoeba, he said just swimming in the river if a little
drop gets into your mouth you can get it. We have been swimming in this river
numerous times. He said especially children and elderly people are affected.
This going through my mind I thought since they have so many cases they
obviously know how to treat it, perhaps even better than in Panama City. I
texted a friend of ours who is a doctor and explained what he took and what he
is taking now and to get her advice. She came back with all good on the
medication and that she thinks since they have a lot of cases here they are
probably more knowledgeable to cure it. So here we still were in Nargana and
Sid on his second Antibiotic treatment this time on Flagyl for 7 days plus
Doctor gave him some Probiotics plus meds for the sever cramps. In the mean
time we both were tired of eating chicken soup, Sid was barely eating and
mainly sleeping. So hopefully this round of antibiotics will kill them this
time. He had to take Flacyl every 8 hours for 7 days, a probiotic every 12
hours, a painkiller for cramps and another one every 8 hours but not together
with the Flagyl and a liquid to coat his stomach also every 8 hour plus after
every meal. My cell had alarms set for
00:00/02:00/06:00/8:00/09:00/10:00/16:00/18:00. This was a loooong 7 day with
not much sleep. Hoped this would stop those little F^#*=rs.
Sid lost 4 more pounds, it
was pitiful and worrisome to see him wasting away like this. Finally the day
came for another poop test, Sid told me he had a bad feeling about this. I
hoped he was wrong, but only he knows who is feeling bad. In the mean time this
was Carnival week and when I arrived at the clinic at 7 there was no sole there
except the cleaning man. He told me not open till 8. So I returned at 8 and
tried to drop the sample off but was told: Oh the lab guy is not here, he is on
vacation until April. I was told though that I could go to Isla Carti or Isla
Sidra, guess I had no choice and organized a water taxi to Carti the following
day a $40 round trip.
Always was curious about
Carti, besides was told the shopping there was better and more variety of
veggies. So I was actually looking forward to it. I was told to be ready at
5:45am, the Lancha showed up 5:40 wow on time. It is a 1 ½ hr ride but it took
over 2 hours as on the way we stopped in 4 anchorages down the island chain to
pick up more passengers. It was a wild and very wet ride, the wind was still
blowing 20/25kts. I managed to stay dry as they provided some plastic tarps to
hide under.
In Carti the driver forgot
to offload me on the island and headed straight to the port. I didn’t think
anything of it thought it’s probably easier letting them off first then me
having to climb over them. There he looked at me and said aren’t you getting
off. No, remember I am going to the Clinic. He rolled his eyes as he had
forgotten, he said we only will be in port for 20 minutes until all the passengers
arrive. An hour later I am still sitting in the lancha. The lancha driver tried
to hail another boat down for me to take me to Carti for $5 (it’s $1 for this
trip thank you very much) would have taken it but some operator error the motor
started screaming and the boat in high tempo took off and headed towards the
dock ramming into a tide up lancha with people on it. Luckily nobody was injured,
but I said politely thank you very much I will wait. Right after that a man
fell into the water, hitting himself on the line of our lancha. Everbody
screaming he was drowing but nobody jumping in after him. Then I saw his hands
grabbing the bow on the lancha I was in before slipping away. I was just going
to jump into action when a guy waded out the water and pulled the drowning guy
ashore, minding you the water was only waste deep. Then not 3 minutes later the
lancha behind us tide to the dock wanted to leave. He was filled with people
luggage etc and was hard aground. Now that was a sight. Imagine 2 foot waves
coming in lifting and pounding the boat to the ground. 4 guys in the water
trying to push/pull the boat into deeper water. 8 or 9 guys on the dock were
pulling the lines. They then loosened the line on the boat I was sitting in,
that was interesting, and then they tried to squeeze the boat by along side the
dock and my lancha. It took them a good 10 minutes to finally get the lancha
into deeper water.
Would have been soo much easier having the people get off
then move lancha into deeper water then people back in. Anyway after over an
hour waiting the passengers finally arrived and I was able to be dropped off in
Carti.
What awaited me was my bag
and backpack, wallet all which I had in a plastic bag everything was soaked
even my phone, luckily it did not hurt it but I was so glad I left my computer
at home. My bag was on the bottom of everybody’s luggage and under water. The
other thing that awaited me was just shock and claustrophobia. OMG these people
here literally live like ants one top of each other, barely room between the
bamboo huts, some out of concrete. There is no area for kids to play, people
are sitting in front of their door with 2 feet to the next hut and people
walking by they have to move their feet out of the way, no privacy.
I managed
to find the clinic and the Lab guy already expecting me said to come back at
10:30 which was in an hour. I asked if I could use the bathroom, he replied
there is none as they have no water. Oh this is gonna be a good day! So I
wandered along the narrow alleys and did find the famous wonderful veggie place
except all they had was onions/potatoes/plantains/over ripe bananas and all the
local root veggies plus apples for 50 cents each, no veggies or fruits. I ended
up eating an over ripe banana and bought the 4 left over apples they had. I
asked where the nearest bathroom was, they looked at me like I was crazy. Guess
Kuna’s don’t pee. So I left and followed another alley which ended on the
islands western end. An old lady came towards me and pointing on to my bag
asking what I was selling. Nothing, I am buying and I am in desperate needs of
a baño. She pointed to the left so I followed that little footpath to find
this:
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| better than no bathroom at all |
I had enough of this town
so decided to walk back to clinic and wait there. I did find some more Baygon
Ultra green for my roaches in one of the 3 tiendas I saw on the way. (By the
way the only thing that really works well for roaches, we have been clear now
for a couple of weeks, still keep doing the spraying just in case).
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| Waiting for my Taxi back to Nargana |
Back at the clinic the lab
guy smiling said listo. It wasn’t what I wanted to hear, Sid still, as lab guy
said has mucho, mucho amoebas. I broke down right there. He said no worries I
will talk to the doctor. The doctor opened the door for me right away and only
knowing this is Sid’s 3rd test coming back with positive and not knowing,
neither did I, what type amoeba we were dealing with, he suggested that he
needs to have intravenous Antibiotic. He wrote everything down the Nargana
Clinic should know and sent me to the nurses station (they call a clinic
pharmacy here) with a prescription for 7 days of Flagyl 3 times a day, 2 ampule
each am/pm of probiotics and also every 12 hours a mineral supplement like Pedialyte
but made for adults.
I was done with this town
and texted Jonny, that’s the launcha owner, who said text me when done and I
send taxi, that I was listo for the taxi. No respond so I called him with
answer there will be a taxi later on around 6pm WHAAAAA….!!! Told him no way
need to go back ASAP. He hung up on me and about 20 minutes later texted taxi
at 15:30. It was only 10:30, so I took a lancha back to the port in hope to
find another lancha there. There I was told oh around 14:00 maybe but
definitely at 15:30. If the driver would have not forgotten to drop me off I
could have been on his lancha back, I was not happy. So I ventured back to
Carti, my brain going a hundred miles an hour what best to do with our
situation and since I was not able to get there on time I whatsapped (gosh love
whatsapp) Edie on Panda that relayed via VHF to Sid to head to clinic and get
IV started (Lab guy had told me that doctor had contacted the clinic).
I felt a little relieve
that Sid would get started immediately on the IV. Since I was hungry I braved
to eat in one of the only 2 restaurants. Choice soup cooked with local river
water or fried chicken and rice cooked in local river water, I opted for the
fried stuff but told her to hold the salad. How was lunch you ask? Tasted like
fried chicken and main thing curbed my hunger as I didn’t have breakfast
earlier.
A wathsapp text came in
from the clinic which they had sent 20 min prior. Poor Sid went right after
lunch to clinic and they knew nothing about it, so now clinic was asking to see
the notes the doctor sent. I took a photo of it but of course could not send it
out I had no signal. So I went back to the clinic to see if the Lab guy could
text with the Clinic. The clinic’s staff had left already and only the doctor
was still there so he called the clinic to explain. This is when I found out
not just the clinic here has no IV Antibiotics on stock neither did the Nargana
clinic. This was devastating news, what now:
1.
even if we wanted
to sail back to Puerto Lindo and go to doctors in Panama City we could not
leave as the winds were howling again and for another 10 days to come.
2.
We can’t leave
the boat alone and there was nobody around to babysit Paradise while we were
gone. Plus not knowing how many days or weeks the treatment goes there was no
way to leave boat alone.
3.
Sid was to weak
to travel alone and not knowing how long treatment would take.
My taxi back finally
showed up at 15:00 but I was sitting again for 30 minues then they came back
that they could not find the other passangers. I was the only one on board and
since the wind was blowing hard he took the scenic route along the mainland. So
far this has been the day from hell, actually my worst day in my cruising life
so this drive home was so beautiful I was able to relax and take in the
beautiful scenery. I got to see Isla Machina the home of Mola Maker Venancio
plus the beautiful mangrove area where about 7 boats were sheltered from the
wind. Isla Sidra home of Mola Maker Lisa, plus saw the river entrance which
leads to a beautiful waterfall. Haven’t done that trip with Lisa yet. Plus many
other inhabited little islands but mainly mangrove covered coast line. I was
home on the boat at 17:15 yeah and it was good to be home.
Big giggle when I thought
of Sid’s saying: That his new career is to make as many people as possible jealous
of our life style. I told him I think it’s time to change your career, don’t
think anybody is jealous of the amoeba and especially delivering poop to another island LOL.
We decided to wait and
talk to the doctor before we decided what needed to be done. Finally sitting
with the doctor (third different doctor, this one is the boss of this clinic)
and him looking at the results he smiled and said this is good the very bad
amoeba is killed. He held his hand up showing all 5 fingers saying out of the
amoeba here 2 are very, very bad. The one he had was something plus E-Coli and
the other is called Lamblia. The other
types can be dormant and you may not even know for months or years you have
them and the now amoeba Sid had was dormant and just came out. He wanted to
know, as the other doctors did, if Sid had eaten local food or drank local food
and when we told him about Super Bowl he too nodded as if to say yes that’s it,
especially when he heard Sid had drank out of soda cans that were iced down in
local water. So I asked him how long it takes for the bad amoeba to create
havoc, he said 2 days. That answered my question. This doctor said that I don’t have to go back
to Carti for the poop test the lab guy is on island and is on call and will
come in. Great news.
Relieved but still not
happy he still had amoebas we went back to the boat. It was good news that the
bad ones were killed but Sid was still very week and very skinny as he had lost
another 4 pounds. The food I am cooking is especially for his conditions lots
of soups, starches like rice, potatoes. I was hoping to lose some weight but
wishful thinking with all the carbs, besides main thing is to get Sid back on
his feet. Just as I was doing dishes I heard the not so good bong, we were
afraid of running out of water and we just did.
What a great feeling and
to be out of Nargana, especially for Sid who was getting depressed, no kidding.
Even running out of veggies I think we have enough food to make it back for the
4th poop test. When we got back I went to the clinic to get the
prescription for the test and this time the first doctor we saw was in the
office again. He immediately wanted to know how Sid was doing, so when I told
him he has another test, he said no way am I going to call the lab guy in, he
is on vacation. Didn’t help that the other doctor said he would call him. Very
disappointed I walked out and went home. Realizing I still needed a
prescription I went back and got that, and told the doctor to please check with
lab guy that I was willing to pay him $50 to come in and do test. The $ worked
and I did not have to make that dreadful trip back to ugly Carti.
Finally Sid was cleared of
all the amoeba, we did one more load of laundry with Taty, loaded up on Veggies
and raced out of Nargana. The one thing I have to mention, the usually muggy
Nargana during our 5 weeks stay we had super clear weather and beautiful
sunsets, even had dolphins come by in the morning and at sunset, so that made
it less depressing. Actually Nargana grew on me. If you want to meet all the
boats in area you just need to anchor in Nargana, pretty much every boat came
by several times to provision.
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| Not as ahhh from the cockpit level but still incredible |
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| occasional Ulus sail buy |
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| One of my favorite thing to do around 3 or 4 o'clock |
Paula and Franco found us here, they were looking for us as they had Swiss guests Claudia and Vanessa
We finally headed back to
the Holandes, wind was down and Sid felt good enough to head out. Although he
still was very weak and tired easly. This will take some time to get back to
his normal health.
Arcadia followed us with the Swiss girls, I had promised her to take her snorkeling here:
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| Franco |
The party was a hoot, Neel
on Milagro plays the guitar and came over and asked if I would bring mine and
if I would sing a song with him. He rewrote the lyrics to a Neal Diamond song,
he sang first than my part was to answer his part, it was funny. We had a fun
evening both playing guitar and people singing along.
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| The food on these potlucks are always amazing |
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| The two BD girls Don and Deb |
A lot of socializing was
done between all the 20 boats, just watching all going on was exhausting. Then
one day a faint warning call on VHF something about a crocodile echoed in the
anchorage. The following morning we found out a German woman on a French boat
that was in Green Island was attacked by a crocodile in the water as she was
snorkeling along the shore. The crocodile bit her face, neck, arm and leg. Was
at the time in the hospital in good spirit recovering. The local police ordered
a search for the crocodile to be destroyed.
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| Needles to say I will not do this here anymore as this is the neighbor island of the croc attack |
Back in 2000 we knew of
one crocodile over in Esnasdup but that was it. Now they are seen pretty much
on any island that has mangroves including the Pool. And not 3 days later, I
heard a commotion behind our boat, looked and saw 4 people on a German boat pointing
in the water, so thought. Ah!! Maybe a nurse shark or a ray. Not seconds later
Chinook called Paradise that there was a crocodile heading from their boat to
ours it was half way. Yikes, we looked but with the glare in the water from the
sun we didn’t see anything. This was about 5 pm the woman was bit around 4.30
pm. 2 crocs have been spotted here on
occasion, alone or together but mostly at dusk. There may be a many as 3 crocs
here. The one in Esnasdup was seen and photographed all the way on the reef
which is north of the island, so they do move around. The following day needless
to say Deb I and I went snorkeling as far away from where the croc could be.
Takes the fun out of it. Now the Green Island Croc nobody knows if it could be
the same as the one in Esnasdup, but we know it can’t be the one in the pool.
Just about 1 1/2 hours earlier Sid and I were cleaning the bottom. Yikes. Love watching Sid stand on the bottom cleaning the keel:
While checking the anchor out I came across this cute little thing
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| Then his friends came to say hello |
We left the pool on March
6 and for the first time we went to Coco Banderas which is supposedly THE most
scenic part of San Blas. We know too that in heavy winds it can get rolly. We
anchored wind was not bad about 10-12 knots but the anchorage was a bit rolly
so we only spent one night and headed back to Pandadup where we are now. Good
thing we moved because the wind piped up to 18 plus knots would have been
miserable in the Cocos.
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| Right side of island |
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| and left side |
We will return there when the weather is calmer as it
is very picturesque and different again. For now our favorite spot is Pandadup
were Sid is catching up fixing things and I am catching up on this blog.
In the meantime Sid is
doing a lot better still gets a little tired as the day goes on but his
appetite and healthy color is coming back. I know I am gaining weight so I
assume he is too LOL.
While checking the anchor out I came across this cute little thing
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