Anchored in Bastimentos, and surrounded by moon jellies at the moment.  There are some smaller guys as well, box jellies and perhaps Medusas.  The stinging quotient is up, so we're reluctant to swim off the boat.  Mostly we get nailed by microscopic stuff floating alongside the jellyfish.

Lovely beach in the low season.  We anchor nearby and take a path through the woods to the ocean side, where there are two resorts- a fancy one and one for backpackers.  The backpacker one's usually more fun- local kids come around to be entertained by the visitors.

We're just hanging in Bocas- we moved a few miles east for the weekend, and it's lovely here, without the water taxis.  There's a small resort nearby with a serious pizza oven- cruisers like to come down on the weekend.  Tomorrow we'll go back, as we have vital provisions coming on the ferry:  cat litter.

Chili cookoff on the beach:  a good way to get fed on a Sunday

This water spout materialized during a rainstorm yesterday evening- quite strong at times, with winds up to 35 knots.  One boat dragged its anchor into shore, there was general excitement and some broken dishes.

We arrived in Panama City this morning at 3:30- staying at the cruisers' casa near the canal zone.  It's a surprisingly lovely area, walking distance to groceries, restaurants, and hardware, useful if we could carry one more thing in our bags.  There's even a lap pool nearby.  So we should be entertained till tomorrow afternoon.  We were planning to go downtown, to the old section- it's beautiful, but it just seems so far in the heat.

We left Ann's on Monday, and stopped in Rockland at Rose's church.  She's living there with a few friends for the summer.  They have a wonderful JESUS SAVES sign among the artifacts onsite- may be available for rental.  Yesterday we drove to the Cape to see Marcel and Kris again, after stopping off in Portland at Lynn's house.