Today we leave Panama for Costa Rica. We had been told of extraordinary fishing grounds some 30 nautical miles north of our current anchorage on 'Isla Jicaron'. We leave at 5.30 am to be there at 8.30 to fish for a few hours. This is out of our direct route to Golfito which will be another 8 hours North. Tom and Jeanette have never travelled by sea like this before, he comments how vast the ocean is and thinks how small the country is compared to the rest of t...

We left BP in Aruba, flying to Costa Rica, via Panama City. We stay with Warick and Susan Leeming overnight at the Intercontinental Real, San Jose. We have a good meal in the hotel, then early to bed as we are up next morning at 4 am for a light plane flight to 'Barro Colorado' (Colorado River mouth). This is northeast from the capital of 'San Jose',near the border of Nicaragua. Even though it was fairly cloudy we could observe the high volcanic mountains and d...