Isla Chapera and Mogo Mogo Ð to all you "Survivor" (TV reality series) fans will recognize these islands from one of the seasons (not sure which one). That is where we anchored for a couple of nights and of course had to row ashore in Pickle (our trusty dinghy) to see where they might have made their camps. Whether it was our active imaginations or not we are sure that we saw some remnants of that series (bamboo raft, swing made out of a piece of bamboo).

Since we did not catch any fish on our sail over from the Panama mainland I decided to make pizza. Oh yes, why not heat up an already stifling galley?!? However, we both agreed that it was worth it! (see photo)

You may be wondering what fruit bats have to do with anythingÉ well unbeknownst to us they visited us both nights and chewed on our bunch of bananas hanging in the cockpit. We couldn't figure out what was happening to the fruit Ð having loonie size bites out of them in the morning. I only figured it out on the second night when I got up to visit the head and saw fluttering wings outside and then shone a light on the bananas and caught one of the little b------s hanging on for dear life gnawing his way into our precious bananas. Fearing the possibility of rabies I quietly snuck back to bed and let him finish his midnight snack. All the bananas were thrown into the sea the next morningÉ and the deck scrubbed clean of the bat guano.

Oh, by the way we are a wee bit ahead of schedule so we are considering to side trip to French Polynesia after we visit Galapagos on the way to Hawaii. There were a couple of islands we hadn't explored when we were there in 2011. What fun! We will be able to celebrate our circumnavigation when we get there as a practice session for our Tying the Knot Party when we get back to Canada (Neptune willing of course!).