CARIBBEAN - COLOMBIA - PANAMA Archives - Sailing Filizi https://sailingfilizi.gr/category/caribbean-colombia-panama/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 04:25:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://sailingfilizi.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-filizi-2-480x480.jpg CARIBBEAN - COLOMBIA - PANAMA Archives - Sailing Filizi https://sailingfilizi.gr/category/caribbean-colombia-panama/ 32 32 Our transit of the Panama Canal https://sailingfilizi.gr/our-transit-of-the-panama-canal/ https://sailingfilizi.gr/our-transit-of-the-panama-canal/#comments Wed, 17 May 2017 02:44:46 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr/?p=3715 Monday May 8, 2017 – One day before the scheduled Panama Canal Transit 9°22.07 N   79°57.06W   Shelter Bay Marina, Panama, slot D19 04.30 I open my eyes and look at the time. I should get up  to check my mac: I’m transfering the photos to an external disk as a backup and for memory space. The transfer […]

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]]> https://sailingfilizi.gr/our-transit-of-the-panama-canal/feed/ 2 movie 04 – Sailing Filizi to Panama https://sailingfilizi.gr/sailing-filizi-to-panama-the-movie/ Wed, 10 May 2017 08:57:42 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr/sailing-filizi-to-panama-the-movie/ The post movie 04 – Sailing Filizi to Panama appeared first on Sailing Filizi.

]]> Moments in Shelter bay marina, Panama https://sailingfilizi.gr/moments-in-shelter-bay-marina-panama-2/ Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:11:21 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3529 9.3697° N, 79.9511° W April 8, 2017  Shelter bay Marina, Caribbean sea, Panama 07.30 -“Karina come, now. We are late, we may not find a seats in the bus”, says Yorgos with an irritated tone, as he climbs down the aluminun ladder, tied on Filizi’s transom -“OK, OK I’m coming!” I say out loud, as […]

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]]> Adventures in Holandes Cays, Greek friends – part 2 https://sailingfilizi.gr/adventures-in-holandes-cays-greek-friends-part-2-eng/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:08:56 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3512 Wednesday, March 29, 2017 09 ° 35.918 78 ° 46.418 W Waisaladup, West Holandes  07.00 “Pinch me, momy! Am I dreaming? The sea bed looks like a painting!”, says Elena, my god daughter to her mother and dearest friend Tatiana. Rozy, her sister who’s swimming by my side, takes the snorkel off her mouth and comments: […]

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]]> Adventures in Guna Yala – Greek friends – part 1 https://sailingfilizi.gr/adventures-in-guna-yala-greek-friends-part-1-eng/ https://sailingfilizi.gr/adventures-in-guna-yala-greek-friends-part-1-eng/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:27:16 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3427 Sunday March 26, 2017 09°35.313N 78°52.935 W   Chichime Cays– Uchutupu Dumat 06.00 I open my eyes, look around in the twilight, and try to orient myself. The next second I come to reality. We slept in the second aft cabin, cabin- 2, the one we use as storage room as all beds in Filizi are […]

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]]> https://sailingfilizi.gr/adventures-in-guna-yala-greek-friends-part-1-eng/feed/ 7 Isla Tigre, Guna Yala, Panama https://sailingfilizi.gr/isla-tigre-guna-yala-panama-eng/ https://sailingfilizi.gr/isla-tigre-guna-yala-panama-eng/#comments Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:09:20 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3361 9 ° 26.561N Nargana Guna Yala 78 ° 35.175 W 25 February, 2017 – “It was a crazy adventure coming from Panama City to Filizi in Guna Yala! But I was so tired, that the adrenaline helped me. The nature on the mountains of Panama was wonderful. When the jeep’s engine broke down in the […]

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]]> https://sailingfilizi.gr/isla-tigre-guna-yala-panama-eng/feed/ 4 Coco Bandero, Nargana and Vasso’s arrival https://sailingfilizi.gr/coco-bandero-nargana-and-vassos-arrival/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 05:53:46 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3200 February 24,2017 09°30.770 N 78°37.093W From Coco Bandero cays to Nargana island Vasso’s arrival Map  —- green =reefs , yellow = land —- 13.00 Nargana island, where we are headed, is very close to the Guna Yala mainland and as we read the sea over there is muddy, from the river water flows. So, we […]

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]]> From Guna Yala to Portobello and back https://sailingfilizi.gr/from-guna-yala-to-portobello-and-back-english/ https://sailingfilizi.gr/from-guna-yala-to-portobello-and-back-english/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:39:16 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3141 09° 35.50N 78°52.50 W Guna Yala (San Blas Archipelago, Panama) Chichime Cays February 24, 2017 5.30 A new day is breaking, the horizon towards the east is like a symphony of changing colors purple, pink, orange. The birds of Uchutupu Pipigua and Uchtupu Dummat, the two tiny Chichime cays, where we are anchored with Filizi, […]

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]]> https://sailingfilizi.gr/from-guna-yala-to-portobello-and-back-english/feed/ 4 Sailing from Colombia to Guna Yala (San Blas), Panama https://sailingfilizi.gr/colombia-to-san-blas-panama-eng/ https://sailingfilizi.gr/colombia-to-san-blas-panama-eng/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:50:28 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3035 February 14, 2017 Marina of Santa Marta, Colombia 06.00 As I wake up from a deep sleep, I lie in bed listening to the sound of silence: at last, the fierce wind of the past seven days has died out , the endless whistle of the breeze on the rigs has seased. The east-northeast strong […]

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]]> https://sailingfilizi.gr/colombia-to-san-blas-panama-eng/feed/ 2 Guna Yala, Maocui-Caimou, Panama: El Paraiso! https://sailingfilizi.gr/guna-yala-maocoui-caimou-panama-el-paraiso/ https://sailingfilizi.gr/guna-yala-maocoui-caimou-panama-el-paraiso/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:00:25 +0000 https://sailingfilizi.gr?p=3007 My dearest sister, I wasn’t prepared to  encounter so much beauty!  From the first moment since we anchored here I’ve been feeling completely overwhelmed  by the perfection, the harmony, the peace of these islands, a harmony that I can feel touching deep in my soul. Now, I can finally understand what that Austrian couple, we […]

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