Party Time

Yandup and Corezon de Jesus (the two villages that make up what's known as Nargana), celebrated Dias de Madre (Mother's Day) with big fiestas on Monday. There was the crowning of the "Queen Mum" which entailed lots of dancing by the runner-ups, line dancing trough the crowd and lots of cheering and speeches. Some traditional dancing as well as party dancing took place. One side, Yandup, held their festivities in a concrete building so it was pretty crowded. The other side, Corezon had theirs on the outside basketball court. Both places were decorated and quite festive. We went in with the folks from Will o' the Wisp and Wonderland. Fireworks were being set off by kids (and adults) and everyone was drinking beer and seemed to be having a great time. We did some dancing (Barbara and Honore even got some young Kuna teens to dance with them!) It was a fun evening. As it celebrated "mother's day" we wish our mothers' a happy day - Panama style.

After a night of partying, we headed to a new anchorage. We picked a place called Esnasdup. It was only about ten miles away - and we had a wonderful sail (albeit it short) to the new location. No joy on the fishing front. This location is a small group of islands surrounded by a reef (sound familiar?). We are with one other boat on one island and there are three more boats near another reef/island. So you do feel like you have the place to yourself. The water is very clear. We had a nice snorkel and swim yesterday followed by the not-so-nice cleaning the bottom of the boat. After all that activity, we reciprocated with a dinner invite to Honore and Walt and had them over for a chili feast. This was followed by a big domino tournament. It was a good match with the lead changing throughout the game (except for Barbara who maintained last place for all but one round!)

Another fun night - but that made it two nights in a row of staying up past "cruisers' midnight! Today we awoke to a drizzly, grey day. This anchorage is closer to the mainland - so the clouds build over the mountains. Most likely we'll move to the East Lemmons - we need to get more cooking gas prior to Richard and Rene's visit. That is a bit of a challenge here - the local Panamanian tanks use a different adaptor and it's butane. The bottom line is, that you need a special adapter to fill the American style propane tanks. So we understand Mr. G in the East Lemmons has an adapter and hopefully he'll also have the gas. (Getting the two together is always the challenge). Then we'll need to head to Carti by Saturday for the arrival to our much anticipated guests

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