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Our Tampa Dad comes to stay with us and bring us some equipment too. Good on ya Dad! We sail, we snorkel, we argue and we breakdown....yes a typical day on Freedom and we show Bill first hand. Our motor stops and we have to tow it with the dinghy. Ha, just...

Margarida gets some super fins and tests them out. She slices her leg open on some coral but takes it all in her stride, well fins I guess. I test Margarida's gun and I am bloody useless so I show you all how to shorten spear rubbers or even make your own....

We sail to another beautiful island, one that is visited by less than 3 cruisers every year. On the way, we tow the dinghy and Margarida notices a problem. While still sailing she spiderwoman's across fixes the problem all at 5 knots. Payadus Island is pa...

While sailing back to Sab Blas I do some scouring work on the prop - it is full of growth and then the jib loses shape - something is wrong. The Halyard for the jib gets chafed through so we resnake the halyard back, it works out perfectly. It's dinghy ti...

Margarida shows us she is the champ at catching crabs. I come second. Hey I don't care, I get to eat a log of crabs. The next day I am up early for a long ride out to some reefs that are a long way away. It doesn't all go to plan when the dinghy blows 1 se...

I leave Margarida early morning and head out for a spear. The trouble is, the sun is not high and it is a bit overcast so I can't see into the water and see the reefs. I stumble upon a reef when a set comes in and my motor dies right at the worst possible ...

Our food and water situation isn't good so we head back to the local Guna Village of Nargana to stock up. We hear there is a monkey in town kept as a pet so decided to check it and bring some bananas for it. We also hear that its' living condition are not ...

I am out of action so Margarida has to catch the fish for us. She takes it so seriously she spears until after the sun has gone down and we have trouble getting back to Freedom because it is a long way away and we have to find a gap in the reef in the dark...

We are still at Iguana Island and explore the lagoon out front. I come face to face with 2 large dog snappers and an oyster cruncher (Pompano) but I leave them alone since they are too big for the 2 of us to eat and look for something smaller. Meanwhile Ma...

We leave Hollandaise lagoon and head to a very rolly anchorage at Iguana Island. Its our very own island where we muck around and Margarida goes native and climbs a coconut palm too high and then has trouble get back down again. Coconuts, racquetball and g...

We meet a sailing couple that there willingness to do some humanitarian work lead them to the Orphanage Casa Azul in Rio Dulce so we join them to help out and get to know more about the project. Margarida is cured from Montezuma's revenge aka parasites so ...

We arrived to Guatemala on a week of festivities and every year on the 14th of September the day before Guatemala Independance day Guatemalans and cruisers gather to participate in a staged pirate attack to San Felipe de Lara Castle and we couldn't miss it...