Sunday 19th March to Monday 10th April 2017 The days of being able to anchor in an isolated bay in the Galápagos and take a dinghy ashore to explore are long gone. Now tourism on the islands is strictly regulated with a view to conserving the environment, preventing the introduction

Saturday 11th to Sunday 19th March 2017 A lot of cruisers are bypassing the Galapagos because of the cost and hassle involved, but Hugh in particular was determined. He had originally envisaged The Voyage of Vega as a journey following in the footsteps of Darwin (although the great naturalist had,

Wednesday 8th to Saturday 11th March 2017     We left the mooring buoy at Balboa yacht club at 6.30am on a still, windless morning and motored out into the smooth, glassy sea. Keeping well to the edge of the buoyed channel we passed large cargo ships on their way

Thursday 2nd to Wednesday 8th March 2017 Cruisers often act as line handlers for other boats before their own boat goes through the Panama Canal so that you’ve got a better idea of the procedures involved, and we were pleased to help friends Terry and Carol in their boat Little

Thursday 16th February to Sunday 5th March 2017 We stayed in Shelter Bay Marina in Panama for 17 days. Jon and Jackie gave up on their plan to try to line handle on a yacht going through the Panama Canal as they were running out of time and instead caught

For those of you following Hugh’s very wonderful blog you will have been reading his daily posts of our trip from Panama to the Galápagos. For those of you who haven’t you have a treat in store… the link is at the top of this blog. In the meantime I

Friday 27th January to Saturday 4th February Recovering from our arduous trek to the Lost City we started to prepare for our next voyage, 300 miles on to the San Blas islands. I was keen to break the journey in some of the smaller offshore islands of Colombia including the

Sunday 22nd January to Thursday 26th January 2017 The five day trek to the Ciudad Perdida was tough but the compensation was the most beautiful, stunning scenery in the lush, dense, green jungle of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the indigenous people we passed on the way and finding out about

Thursday 12th January to Saturday 21st January 2017 We left Bristol at 4am in the cold and dark and arrived in Colombia the same day after travelling for 21 hours. It was 8pm in Bogotá, dark and almost as cold as Bristol. Much of the following day was spent trying

I know… this is over three months behind, but I plan to do a speedy get up to date over the next two weeks so you will have lots of reading to do! Friday 28th October to Wednesday 2nd November The day after returning from our trip to the Amazon