Notes from Underway - Cruising Panama

Left Shelter Bay Marina/Colon @ 0800 Fri., 2/25. No wind - motored 17mi. to Portobello (09deg.33.5'N/079deg.40'W), found by Columbus in 1502; later, the port from which the Spanish shipped much gold & silver from the New World. It is indeed a beautiful port. 40 boats here, most our size, most from Europe. Ruins of 500 y.o. forts ashore, pod of 12 dolphin in bay, howler monkeys roaring in jungle at sunset. We'll stay a while.
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