Day 124 - Saturday 3rd July After a sleepless night of terrible films on the bus we arrived at dawn at the port town of Almirante and were hustled onto a speed boat that took us out to the islands of Bocas del Toro. It's generally a party town and after the football we ended up having a night out a water taxi away at a bar called 'AquaLounge', complete with 3m diving board into the river...needless to say not one drunken reveller made a clean entry and it got me...

Day 122 - Thursday 1st July Jann returned having been 'held hostage' by some Panamanian girls on their boat... Caught our first 'chicken bus' of the trip, a literal old yellow American school bus, that took us to dive that is Colon city, the 'passage of panama' where the top end of the Panama Canal reaches the Caribbean. We were told it was too dangerous to leave the terminal so we caught a bus straight to Panama City. Modern, American and High Rise. We checke...

Day 118 - Sunday 27th June Skirted some of the islands before mooring up between two that were deserted and finally got to snorkel. So clear and with crazy coral and fish. Checked out the islands for the afternoon and ate some weird sea slugs for dinner... Day 119 - Monday 28th June Caught a fantastic sunrise over the islands before a 3 hour sail further up the archipelago (after some free diving to free the anchor). Cruised past Robinson Crusoe island with it...