We have been in Portobello a month today, and love it! We have all found work here, and are settling in for a few months. Portobello offers a great cruising community, beautiful surroundings, a friendly and safe anchorage, and a Cruisers Bar where we have found work. The bar is run by three ex cruisers, Jack (aka Jack's Bar), Dennis and Marco. Jack and Dennis are from the US, Marco is from Canada, originally Montreal, but has family and lived most recently on Vancouver Island.
I am going to be working with Dennis on the 2011 edition of their Cruisers Directory, doing the graphic design and helping to organize the publication. Brett and Dylan will be helping out running the front desk and bar, as it is also a hostel. They offer other services, fuel and propane for cruisers, day trips into Colon and Panama, and run a boat back and forth from Panama to Colombia. Greg will be doing mechanical work and some welding, and helping to build docks as they expand, and build a Yacht Club.
It will be a great opportunity for all of us. The guys will continue their school work, but will also learn so much from working in the bar/hostel, life skills that they will be able to use in their very bright futures. Our boat is safely anchored and all is well with the Dutch Dreamer.
We have had two of Greg's former co-workers from First Air in Yellowknife visiting us. Yvon and Emil originally came for one week, but after one week, Yvon decided to stay an additional week. The weather has been crappy, lots of rain, but we have all made the best of it. Lots of card games, poker and the like.
The weather looks like it will clear up so I can get some much needed laundry done, and air out the boat, which feels really damp after a few days of rain. We had a pretty good storm Saturday night, its been very rocky and rolly since, but at least our anchor has held and we have been secure in our spot at the northern side of the anchorage. It is a bit of a dinghy ride into town, but this side is less rolly, and we are out farther so the water is a bit cleaner.
That's about it for now. We will try and be better about updating our blog, but things have been so busy since we got here, the days fly by.
I am going to be working with Dennis on the 2011 edition of their Cruisers Directory, doing the graphic design and helping to organize the publication. Brett and Dylan will be helping out running the front desk and bar, as it is also a hostel. They offer other services, fuel and propane for cruisers, day trips into Colon and Panama, and run a boat back and forth from Panama to Colombia. Greg will be doing mechanical work and some welding, and helping to build docks as they expand, and build a Yacht Club.
It will be a great opportunity for all of us. The guys will continue their school work, but will also learn so much from working in the bar/hostel, life skills that they will be able to use in their very bright futures. Our boat is safely anchored and all is well with the Dutch Dreamer.
We have had two of Greg's former co-workers from First Air in Yellowknife visiting us. Yvon and Emil originally came for one week, but after one week, Yvon decided to stay an additional week. The weather has been crappy, lots of rain, but we have all made the best of it. Lots of card games, poker and the like.
The weather looks like it will clear up so I can get some much needed laundry done, and air out the boat, which feels really damp after a few days of rain. We had a pretty good storm Saturday night, its been very rocky and rolly since, but at least our anchor has held and we have been secure in our spot at the northern side of the anchorage. It is a bit of a dinghy ride into town, but this side is less rolly, and we are out farther so the water is a bit cleaner.
That's about it for now. We will try and be better about updating our blog, but things have been so busy since we got here, the days fly by.
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