At last out of Kuna Yala...Few words. Are necessary to describe our last week cruising:Rain, rain, and more rain! For 7 days non - stop Torrential rain to the point that people died in landslides, major roads were destructed and the Panama Canal closed down! Yesterday morning at 5:30 our friends Pam and Bill got up with us and brought us to land by dinghy in total darkness! El Provenir is a liliputian airport with a very very short landing strip... Around 8:00am we finally see the twin engine 15 seaters circling our small island and landing! (Yesterday it touched down but did not land due to the strip being under water). So in the mean time about 30 passengers had congregated around the plane and pushing their ways to get on!Kuna indians, backpackers, cruisers. ..the pilot of Air panama had a short list and started calling out names of the few lucky ones! And the rain started falling like nails! It was avery tense moment. ...who would get on? People who had not gone on yesterday or the ones who had reserved for Saturday? What a relief when both our names were called! We took place at the back and felt sad for the folks who stood under the rain!
So after a relatively smooth flight, we arrived in Pan.city where the sun was shining! Wow!
We are currently at the Costa Inn and have a great room onthe sixth floor overlooking the city with views of the Pacific !
All should go well until our return flight tomorrow.(Except that we forgot our shoes on our friends boat...will there be sandal type weather in Canada on Monday?)