I hardly got any sleep purely because of the heat so was so glad when my alarm went off this morning! We had booked to go for a tour of the mud volcano and needed to be ready for the shuttle at 8:30... After changing into our cozzies, we went to buy some bananas and yoghurt for breakfast and the shuttle eventually arrived... The volcano was about an hour's drive away - we had no idea what to expect! Robs and them didn't want to tell us much as they wanted us to ...

Welcome to Colombia!! Land was in sight and the end was near :) Very exciting - felt so disgusting all hot and sweaty and just craving the steadiness of land!! We were all out at the front of the yacht as we sailed into the harbour at Cartagena... And it was pretty cool to think we had just sailed between two countries and that now we were in South America! Sym anchored the boat and we just hung around a bit chatting before we got off the boat... We had packed ou...

Today is our last day at the islands before we head out and sail on the open sea to Colombia! So we had to make the most of it... We were up early as usual and had a quick breakfast... We then moved off to our final island of the trip. In the morning, we got the snorkels and all headed to the reef on the side of the island - was a good swim there, had to walk a bit on the beach and then back in the water to snorkel. It was quite rough though as the waves were bre...

Slept as well as you can on a boat ;) The kids wake up quite early so there's no sleeping in but who would want to when you're in paradise?! Helped myself to breakfast (cereal) and got into my cozzie... We headed off to another island and dropped anchor for the morning. There was a ship wreck which we went to snorkel around just near where we anchored the boat. We then swam over to the island (we had to pay $2 on this one) and after swimming for quite a while we ...

When we climbed onto the boat (and paid our boat driver freaking $10 - another hidden cost gggrrrrr), we met our company for the next 5 days... So: - Sym: captain and owner of Gypsy Moth, British, one of ten!! Cool man, strict about not using too much water and electricity on the boat, great captain! Super happy to have found his namesake (me) haha... - Amy: wife of Sym and owner of Gypsy Moth, Welsh, 30?!?! (We were all so shocked when she revealed this - lite...