Saturday, January 29, 2011

Goodbye Hanalei Moon

Thursday we bid good bye to Patty and Steve on Hanalei Moon. Patty's trip home started with a 7am flight from Porvenir to Panama city on Friday, then to Houston and San Francisco, a pretty long day! To be in position for the 7am flight, she and Steve departed the "Hot Tub" (nickname for the anchorage we shared in the East Hollandes) on Thursday afternoon. Steve will proceed on to Portobello or Boca del Torres to try and get the port engine repaired.

Yesterday we moved New Morning to Salardup (see Where's New Morning). Before we could even put up the bimini we were greeted by Ralph from Five Islands who invited us to a beach party that evening. I went ashore with a couple other guys and gathered wood in the afternoon, stirring up lots of no-no's and then incurring lots of bites in the process.

The party itself was very well attended as another 6-7 boats came in after us and most of the 14 boats here joined the party. There was a pot luck dinner, bonfire, music and group singing - shades of summer camp! Then someone realized their dinghy had floated away so we scrambled to help find it. Fortunately it didn't drift too far, but at that point we were in our dinghy so we headed home. I nice evening spent chatting and singing with a great group of people.