No Hurries No Worries: April 2007

After spending a week in Golfito, Costa Rica, a little town set in the jungle with tropical plants, flowers, birds and monkeys, we headed across the Pacific to the Galapagos. There was absolutely no wind the first three days and nights so we crawled along at a bearing of 215 degrees at about 3.5 knots to conserve fuel. It was a 691 mile (if in a straight line) journey from Costa Rica. The next several days out we saw high winds, confused seas and angry skies. It was like being in a washing machine, turned on with the lights out, or like skiing down a steep mogul slope, with your goggles all fogged up. As soon as it calmed a bit (15 to 18 knots of wind), we sailed on, through day and night. For several days we only turned the engine on to charge the batteries.

We crossed the equator at 3 am on April 7, 2007 at 00’00.000 degrees latitude and 89’40.00 longitude. Ken prepared a beautiful ceremony/celebration to signify the event. We were dancing in the dark!

We arrived in Ecuador, the Archipielago de Colon, (Galapagos Islands) and anchored on the Isle San Cristobal, at 2 pm that afternoon.We are amazed at the fact that we are here and have to ask each other “Where are we?”. Our first impression is that this is a pretty cool place.

After taking a tour of the island, it was without a doubt confirmed that this is a cool place! The pictures tell it all:

Amazing tree house in the biggest oldest tree in the
Galapagos