Day 125, Year 1: Sunday in Balboa
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2006
Air Temperature: 78 degrees F
Water Temperature: 76 degrees F
Location: Balboa Yacht Club, Balboa, Panama
We spent our day today on Aqua Magic. Mark helped Patrick figure out a problem with his alternator and then helped to replace the seals in his water maker. We had done this on Windbird a couple of weeks of ago and it was nice to be able to share what we had learned with someone else. While Mark and Patrick were working on these projects, Margaret and I were researching the next ports of call. We are trying to decide whether to leave here at the end of Carnival and go to the nearby Panamanian Las Perlas Islands or whether to head south to the mainland of Ecuador. Our research today indicated that we would be better served by spending the first week or so of March in the Las Perlas islands and then heading for the Galapagos, but we will not make a final decision on this for a couple of days. Tomorrow at 4 PM we attend a meeting with other boats headed to the South Pacific. We will find out what others are doing and then make our decision.
There’s not much else to report tonight. We had dinner ashore at T.G.I. Friday’s and then returned to the boat. We are planning an early Monday morning trip to the French Embassy to get our visas for French Polynesia and then a day of shopping at the local marine stores. Hopefully we will be able to find many of those little items we have on our “To Buy” list.
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