Finally! We arrive in Columbia. We had to go in and clear customs first so Hurricane Felix passed by while we did that and took on new boat crew. We went back out and did the inshore part of the job which only took a couple of days. After that we returned to port to unload the S/V Geo and dismantle the survey deck. The offloading of the Geo went...

Slept in a bit then spent the day wandering around the Old Town on Cartagena. It is a walled-in section of town with colonial style buildings. Looks like Spain married New Orleans. The wall was built to keep out pirates long ago. We got some great photos and had spent about 5 hours just walking through the winding streets. Ate at a Chinese resta...

Stu has joined me - and we have traveled to Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast, and we are having a BLAST! We put our feet in the warm warm Caribbean sea yesterday. An interesting experience - definitely not what i had in mind. Doesn't everyone picture the Caribbean sea as a place with beautiful clear clean warm water, full of plankton and fishes...

Wow. Was I ever relaxed the last few days. I am a city girl. I have learned to appreciate the serenity of quiet places, but I belong in a city. Even still, after four days of peace and quiet, I was overwhelmed when I got back to Cartagena, which isn't even that big of a city. But after sleeping in a hammock next to the ocean for three nights and...