Next Panama

Warm wet and friendly Friday greetings from Drake Bay on the Osa Peninsula,

We have had a few more vehicle hassles in the last days that kept our attention in the wrong direction be we have got on the move again and have driven through some truly amazing rain and cloud forests. We have solved the problem of being flooded in the vehicle during the frequent downpours of rain by using a strip of duct tape (this stuff is a low tech winner).

Back to our movements and other stuff, we really met some amazing clients in the small town of Uvita and did site evaluations on two very stunning forest properties, one small and the one large but so diverse in vegetation and features that it was quite breath taking.

Yesterday, in crossing the Osa Peninsula we drove mostly in the rain on a track so studded with potholes, it took us a long time to do the 30 odd Km in mostly 2^nd gear.

At one point I realized we had another problem with the vehicle and we stopped to do an inspection only to find out that our roof carrier with the tent, spare gas & water cans together with our 2^nd spare wheel was so loose that it was on the verge of falling off.

We did what we needed to with the relief that it did not because there was no way Angelika and I would have ever been able to have got it back up again, not to mention the damage that it would have caused on coming down.

Today we head back to the other side of the Osa and will spend a day or so there depending on what we find but expect if all things are equal, we will be entering Panama on Sunday or Monday.

Paul & Angelika