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and it's delightful come morning hours I

slept last night like a log after having

a few anchor beers I anchored out a

little bit when I came in and it was

pretty dark so I anchored over there and

had a little bit of swell but I didn't

care that was nothing compared to what

I've been used to for the last for those

how long I'm now anchored by a very nice

piece of jungle as birds singing away a

couple of pterodactyls I think they're

out there as a few birds visited the

deck it's lovely

that it's very shallow and I've only got

a few meters of chain out kind of very

close to everything including some of

these guys that's because this is just

temporary I'm waiting I had a bit of

confusion with communications with the

shore the people in the marina wanted me

to come ashore and have a look at the

birthday got me saying something about

it being a tight fit the only problem

was my engine was broken the dinghy was

on the deck the cord broke on the engine

and the gearshift was stuck after

further communication problems in that I

had a hard time telling them that my

dinghy wasn't working and I couldn't get

ashore they eventually came to get me in

a skiff took me in and down this Avenue

of boats at the bottom was a very small

berth so it was kind of good that they

thought that I should come a little bit

before I went in

the lady on the left on the Koran there

looks decidedly worried I did actually

asked if she could hold a fender over

the site just in case I got wrong gonna

let the camera roll here just to give

you an idea just how tight some of these

places can be

that was me whooping with delight it's

that feeling that you've actually pulled

off something a little bit special got

him without banging about feet on the

ground in Panama I was going to check in

here my first checking point in Central

America the boats stopped I'm feeling

happy and then it was time to go and

explore I thought I'd take myself on a

chicken bus into town these X school

buses from America make great buses this

one had Jesus on the side so I figured

I'd be safe it's kind of a hit and miss

thing what you do when you get on board

I fell over at this point

luckily they slay Dee's breasts broke my

fall she wasn't too happy about that but

I got myself settled in and then just

hung on for the ride

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and then we were stopped by a lot of

armed guys wearing black who boarded the

bus they took away one woman it was

probably a criminal or something she

looks a bit like that and then I put a

camera down because I didn't want to

intimidate anybody especially this guy

then we continued

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my main reason for going to portobello

was to check into Panama after I'd done

that I took a walk around the place and

came across this yacht it had been

abandoned sometime before on rough

weather at Berner ashore a sad sight to

see

I've always been interested in green

archaeology here is a Spanish fort it's

built around of seventeen hundreds I do

anybody could have done that it's very

dull yeah I mean it's just like people

just left and walked away there are

cabins lying in the grass there's

another one here look

I mean exact they're complete but you

can't see the makers name which is

usually by the touch hole which is

somewhere up here I think oh my gosh oh

oh I realized I've seen a picture of

this place I wanted to come here

oh look at this

no not the sleeping dog you can see the

thickness of the walls here and I think

there's a kind of like ditch in front

and then you got one of these you see

these a lot of Spanish sports a little

like a pillbox

in 1596 the famous privateer or some

would say pirate Sir Francis Drake died

just off the coast of Portobello and is

reported to be buried in a lead coffin

wearing a full set of armor recently an

expedition reported finding remains of

two of his ships here in the bay

Portobello was one of the main ports of

the Spanish mane there were times when

the custom-house was full of treasure in

1668 pirate Henry Morgan visited the

place and in a bloody fight sacked the

city and held it for ransom a good

defensive position is a place to be less

you I hereby I gotta say I wanted to

bring my boat here I saw pictures of it

but now looking at base

so little things like the step here that

coming into this pillbox sea-ice worn

down you can imagine hundreds of years

of soldiers covered in here to do that

opposite no before walking back I

noticed just across the other side of

the road grass that looks strangely

man-made on closer inspection it turned

out to be a wall that's actually a force

over you can see more here this is a

fort just across the road from the big

four we've just been in and it's huge

but it's completely covered with growth

but it's there I'm not sure we're

talking about the same place that must

be photo shot to hell it doesn't look

like that it does not look right and

meanwhile at the other end of town I

stopped off to look at the Customs House

the building is currently being restored

to some of his former glory in its time

it may well have held the treasure that

was bound for Spain on treasure ships

you can see why Henry Morgan and his

kind were interested in this town for

hundreds of years

although the town is heavily fortified

and this is yet another fort apparently

they were badly managed and most of the

time undermanned seen a few things like

this guy never seen one this low down I

mean you normally think of a fort with

high walls and they're shooting down at

people

then these guns are placed really really

low I mean they right at the sea level

what I could imagine is that you could

shoot these guns at a fairly low

projection down at the waterline of

ships

and sink ships upper silesia I never

heard of it before but I mean this is

really low I mean the whole thing I

guess from the sea you wouldn't actually

know this was here it was too late the

other part of you look that was over

there so yeah you've got past that you

get in here these guys are gonna sort

you out

oh boy

see through their remains of yet another

yacht dead boats everywhere here yachts

that were left never came back

and then after a two-hour wait for a bus

it was back home my outboard engines not

working also I've got a few problems

with that as mentioned earlier the pull

cord broke that's the same time that's

happened and the gearshift decided to

stick on the side of the engine but

rather than watch me fix this a few

people have asked about my music so I'm

gonna end this week's episode where the

clip of me practicing some stuff in my

cockpit enjoy

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