Oil and Water Project

We packed Baby up and put her on a freighter to Cartagena, Colombia to ship her around the Darien Gap.  By pure coincidence, we met a bunch of people at our hostel that had chartered a yatch to go from Panama to Colombia and stop of in the San Blas Islands in route for a couple of days.

It was a 47 foot yatch, and we sailed from island to island.

Once we really got going, it took us about 24 hours of continuous sailing to get around the Darien Gap.

This was our first sighting of South America.  Cartagena, Colombia.

It took us along time to get Baby back (almost a week of finageling with the customs officials).  When we did, she was waiting patiently.

38 countries united world wide to build us the ultimate jump to gap the Darien between Panama and Columbia. We pulled off a sweet corking flip and stuck it.

But not before a quick stop over to the San Blas Islands for some snorkeling and fishing.

We are pretty stoked.  We consider this the halfway point of the trip.

We just heard that 25 million people died building the Panama Canal.

We headed into the heart of Panama City and got lost as hell.

Of course we got the super sick spot for the rig overlooking the best point break on the beach.

Turner dropped in for a visit, and we surfed the best waves so far on the trip.

The waves got big a mushy the last day.

Joe Carberry, one of the managing editors of the newest kayak mag, Paddling Life joined us for a one week ride´a´long. We paddled 3 rivers in the first two days he was with us, and hucked a sweet 25 footer. The coolest thing about it was that he is a rippin kayaker, so he would just jump first and take pictures from the bottom.

We had a jam packed week for, veg oil collection, school demonstrations and then topped it off with some Surf in Santa Catalina.

The school was a technical high school.

We got to teach the diesel mechanics class the ins and outs of running on veg oil.

Stay tuned for Joe´s photos in the the Paddling Life issue.

People are always asking us if we get lonely, living out here on the road for months on end. The answer is YES. Luckily we have great girls like Anna and Anika to come and visit us from time to time.

We hung out at Las Lajas, Panama at this great beach with awesome surf.