We left Panama City, after being hammered by rain and squalls on the anchorage, which was bad anyway. It is for us difficult to understand how some boats stay there months in a row, on the anchorage in front of Panama City (Isla Flamengo), there was really nothing to our likening. So we were moving but the grib weather files show too much 15 and 20 knots on the nose to our liking in the areas we should enter a day from here sailing, so we decided to drop anchor in Archipelago Las Perlas and wait for some better winds, for how much that is possible in this particular area (doldrums). According the grib files, it should turn for the better tomorrow so that is when we will head out there. The anchorage we are on now, just off Isla Pedro Gonzalez is about the best we have had in the past year according Heloisa. We share it with a few local fishing boats. Underway to this location we caught 1 mackerel, 2 Carvealle Jacks and 2 Bonitos. This Pacific is something different then the Atlantic and Caribbean in terms of fish. There is some serious amount if fish here waiting to be caught by us. Several hours after we had dropped anchor a group of about 4 to 5 very large (according the books we have on board) Bryde�'s whales passed by in the channel between our island and the next island, again confirming our thoughts that this pacific is something else then what we have experienced so far in terms of ocean life.

Now we are getting ready for the close hauled trip to Galapagos. Depending how winds are and how we feel we might stop in Ecuador.

All well with boat and crew