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Our sailing season got cut short due to the CV crisis, so Im back ashore in Panama now. Just checked the brochet and its only dropped to 1.053. Tastes yummy though and surprisingly not too sweet. Checked my hydro in RO water just to be sure it wasnt off, nope. I wonder if acidity could be...

A little snorkelling today with the GoPro on a very shallow reef. It was a beautiful day and lots of critters were out on this little patch reef.

Now if Rabbit were wearing a yamaka... [emoji6]

I think thats a better punch line

Sunset & Moonset

Sunrise, Bocas del Toro, Panama.

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Shot aboard a catamaran anchored in extremely still conditions. With a 16mm lens at f4.0 the max exposure time before star streaking becomes apparent is ~10". I shot a bunch of exposures at 8-10". This one was shot at 8". Any boat movement at all and the picture is trashed. Would be very hard...

Milkyway in the rigging, Bocas del Toro, Panamá... The image is noisy because I was shooting at 8,000 ISO, and the conversion to JPEG to upload didnt help. The Sony a6000 camera starts getting noisy at about 8,000, it will go much higher (25,600), but given the level of noise, Im not sure of...

So its a "fake" sour (pineapple added) but its light and tasty, perfect for here in Bocas del Toro.

Ok. I will see what I can line up and then let you know. Any preferences or just what I can get?

I also have a friend in Bermuda who is a coffee roaster. He imports green beans and roasts locally for resell. He still has a place in Panajachel, Guatemala...thats on Lake Atitlan (a high altitude lake, 1,000' deep, surrounded by volcanos...an incredibly beautiful place)...thats in the...

Any interest in trying Geisha? I dont like it, but its a big deal world wide, and very different than other coffees. Its demanding crazy prices per lb in the international market, but maybe I can get someone to slip me a little on the side. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha_(coffee)

Ok. I will see what I can set up. Its cruising season for us now, so on the boat for a few months, but I can probably still coordinate something. It will be much simpler, and less expensive, for me to ship to one person in the USA. Who wants to be that person?

Como no? ("Why not" basically, a popular Panamanian expression). I could probably ship some local green beans your way. I have several friends with small coffee fincas who produce excellent coffee, but not in commercial quantities...no other way to get this stuff than to know a local. Wanna...

Greetings from Panama guys....land of many great coffees. I lived in Guatemala prior to Panama so Im REALLY spoiled in terms of great coffee. We live in the Chiriqui highlands where most of the really good offee is grown in Panama. Now on the boat here in Bocas del Toro. The marina here ships...

Ooh, that last pic makes me cringe...a pet up high near boiling wort. Careful with that! Parboiled kitty would make for bad day.

Here in Panama we often get a random assortment of better beers, I dont know how/why this happens, but its always fun to see what fell off the boat this week. Today's random find was Sam Adams Boston Ale at a supermarket in Bocas del Toro. ...at anchor in Bocas del Toro, south anchorage.

Cool stuff. Post here when you write the book. The impact of their explorations was huge...might be an interesting book theme...like Blue Latitudes that I posted above.

Yes, thats a common story. More common is boats that are never finished. Building a larger cruising boat is a huge undertaking...very few are ultimately successful.