Getting Ready to Leave Panama

We left the San Blas at the end of January.  For the last few weeks we have been in a marina on the Atlantic side of Panama. For the last few weeks we have been preparing ourselves and the boat for a journey through the Panama Canal, and then on to the South Pacific Islands...

Since we decided in October that sending school supplies from Canada was no longer cost effective, we spent time while at a marina to explore the "Free Zone" in Colon, where we eventually found over 8000 colour pencils and 100 notebooks and a few hundred erasers...

After some negotiations, we settled on a price, made our purchase and got the stuff back to the boat.  We have stored it all in preparation for the months to come...

While here at the marina we also met some people from a local indigenous community who come every Friday to sell their crafts.  We learned that there are 21 children in their village so we sent them home with supplies for everyone...

We will share more, as we travel the Pacific Ocean....

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