We haven't done much over the last two weeks. In fact, I have no reason to be writing a blog post other than to share these pictures of scary storms that keep rolling over us.
We're anchored in a random spot about 8 miles from Colon at the moment. We've been here for a week, casually fixing a few things, enjoying the internet reception and mostly just chilling out. There's nothing here though aside from storms, water and an annoying number of no-seeums.
After we went through the canal we stayed at at the Shelter Bay Marina. It's much too fancy for our tastes, but it was amazing to be on solid land for a while. Two guys came out to help us tie up to the dock and I didn't have to do a thing. There's amazing showers there, along with with a pool and a little store. It's magical. Does everybody else know how awesome marinas are? Somebody should really be sharing this information!
Shelter Bay is also in the middle of the jungle . We went for a walk looking for monkeys and sloths, but drew a blank. The monkeys here are howler monkeys and they make a crazy amount of noise, so you can at least tell when they're nearby. We heard their cries echoing through the trees but we didn't actually see any, which was sad.
We did see an Agouti though, which was pretty cool. It's a strange animal that sits somewhere between a pig and a wombat and they're actually pretty interesting. He ran across our path as we were walking in amongst the trees, but didn't stop or look back for a photo. He just wanted to run.
The reason we stayed so long at the marina was because our oven finally broke. The burners have slowly been dying, and we are now down to one instead of three. Garth agreed to take it apart to clean the connectors in the hopes that a bit of love would fix it. Unfortunately, as soon as he took took it apart the metal burners just disintegrated into dust. They were so old and rusted that they had just been hanging on by a thread. It's remarkable they were working at all. Not safe. So we've had to order a whole new oven, which was painful and expensive. But it's also exciting and awesome! As much as I don't want to spend more money, it will be really amazing to have an oven that's insulated properly, starts every time and isn't a nightmare to operate at sea. Yay!
One of our rusted burners
The oven with the top removed
In the meantime we've had to buy an outdoor camping stove and a new gas bottle to fit it. So cooking is going to be a much bigger deal for the next few weeks as we try to do all our cooking in the cockpit, but before long we'll have a new oven!
Xxx Monique
We're anchored in a random spot about 8 miles from Colon at the moment. We've been here for a week, casually fixing a few things, enjoying the internet reception and mostly just chilling out. There's nothing here though aside from storms, water and an annoying number of no-seeums.
After we went through the canal we stayed at at the Shelter Bay Marina. It's much too fancy for our tastes, but it was amazing to be on solid land for a while. Two guys came out to help us tie up to the dock and I didn't have to do a thing. There's amazing showers there, along with with a pool and a little store. It's magical. Does everybody else know how awesome marinas are? Somebody should really be sharing this information!
Shelter Bay is also in the middle of the jungle . We went for a walk looking for monkeys and sloths, but drew a blank. The monkeys here are howler monkeys and they make a crazy amount of noise, so you can at least tell when they're nearby. We heard their cries echoing through the trees but we didn't actually see any, which was sad.
We did see an Agouti though, which was pretty cool. It's a strange animal that sits somewhere between a pig and a wombat and they're actually pretty interesting. He ran across our path as we were walking in amongst the trees, but didn't stop or look back for a photo. He just wanted to run.
The reason we stayed so long at the marina was because our oven finally broke. The burners have slowly been dying, and we are now down to one instead of three. Garth agreed to take it apart to clean the connectors in the hopes that a bit of love would fix it. Unfortunately, as soon as he took took it apart the metal burners just disintegrated into dust. They were so old and rusted that they had just been hanging on by a thread. It's remarkable they were working at all. Not safe. So we've had to order a whole new oven, which was painful and expensive. But it's also exciting and awesome! As much as I don't want to spend more money, it will be really amazing to have an oven that's insulated properly, starts every time and isn't a nightmare to operate at sea. Yay!
In the meantime we've had to buy an outdoor camping stove and a new gas bottle to fit it. So cooking is going to be a much bigger deal for the next few weeks as we try to do all our cooking in the cockpit, but before long we'll have a new oven!
Xxx Monique
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