Cental America
And Back
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We spent 3 days at Socorro, where I discovered how poorly the Hobie kayak is designed and implemented. When I unrolled it to inflate for a beach run I discovered it wouldn't, inflate that is. Apparently they used a glue that had given up on almost all of the applied plastic pieces and parts of the outside of the boat. It is a 2011 model and I think I've used it less than a half a dozen times. And even worse, the design of the inflatable rigid bottom terminates as a small tube in the bow with a oddly shaped, supposed to be glued on, plastic cap. I'll include a picture later, but I was lucky I had a small can of of dinghy glue and stuck all the pieces and parts back together in the best possible way I could. I don't know if it will hold air yet, we didn't have a chance to test it yet due to a long cure time, but perhaps at our next anchorage. I expected more from Hobie. I also have an inflatable Advanced Elements StraitEdge kayak that I picked up at a cruiser swap meet for a song (unlike the huge dollars for the Hobie), and that one gets tons of use and is as solid as the day I bought it. Nice job AE.
The most memorable part of our visit to Parida were the fish. There must have been a hatching the day we arrived because the water was thick with 1/4 inch little fish. So many it made the water visibility lousy for snorkeling and when we pulled the kayaks out of the water there were little fishes in every nook of the boats. Predator fish got the memo and headed for Socorro bay, we had barracuda, bonita and jack tuna streaking and jumping and splashing around trying to scoop up their unfair share. Each day the surviving little fish were twice as big as they were the day before, and there were twice as many predators in the bay. It got to the point of annoyance. I know I know... how annoying can fish be? The sounds of the fish were the sounds of someone falling overboard. Being on a boat, that sound commands your attention. You ever try to sleep when it sounds like people are jumping off the boat into the water. You just never get used to it, especially with dogs on board.
We are currently on our way to an anchorage on a Penninsula called Burica. It's a true roadstead anchorage with very little protection from wind or swell from any direction except the Southwest or West, which seems to be the current condition. The Penninsula divides Panama and Costa Rica, so today is our last day in Panama.
See you on the other side. Peace.
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