October our backyard

October our backyard

Panama

Panama
Red Frog Beach

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Isla Mujeres

Hey life is great in paridise. We have been in Isla now for 25 days and every one has been beautiful hot and sunny. Life on this island is slow paced and relaxing. Absolutely nothing is done fast,not even your beer order. It gets there when it gets there. We went into Cancun on a three day trip to see some Mayan ruins. The first one we saw was Ex'balam. It was discovered about nine years ago.The ruins themselves are fasinating and you are left with a feeling of awe when you climb up to the top of the pyrimid. The next place on our tour was a town called Valladolid pronounced [bahiadoleed]'there is this fantastic cenote right in the middle the town and on a hot day it is a very refreshing swim. On the next morning we did Chechen Itza and man that place is huge. It is acres upon acres of sites. The most intersting of them to myself was the sports arena. The walls have skulls carved on on side of the building and on the inside there are two stone hoops about halfway down the court. on either end of this court are high veiwing areas that to me looked like a person of high standing would watch from. After that we drove south east to a ruin called Coba and swam in three underground cenotes. This was so cool you had to go down what looked like a stone well,climb this spiral staircase until you got to the cavern below. And there it was crystal clear blue water with stalagmites and stalagtites, roots growing through the ceiling and small catfish that swam from some underground river. While you swim down there the sounds of the water lapping on the sides of the cavern have an earrie resonance. And then it's broken by the splash of Gilbert diving off of the dive platform ten meters up into eighty feet of water. We wandered our way back up to the Mayan Rivaira past Tolume,Akumel and back to Cancun.Now we are waiting for some parts to come in from the US so we can continue to the island of Cozemal. So I will sign off now and drink my cold beer that finally arrived. Bye for now from the crew of the Endorfin.

Barbara and Mike [the cop patrol]


The Journey Begins

My dad and I left the Soo on January 5 2008.

About Me

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Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
I am Katerina Precepa, newly retired and going sailing with my best friend and soul mate Gilbert Quesnel. Who happens to be the captian of the fine sailing vessel Endorfin. Gilbert has been a water well driller for thirty five years. I worked in a steelmill for thirty years. The both of us will be leaving a lot of family members behind. Gilbert, a son and two daughters five grand children, his brother and sister and his wonderful mom. I am saying goodbye to seven brothers and two sisters,my son and his wife, my daughter plus six of my own grandchildren. Before I forget all of the many neices and nephews.

what Gil's leaving behind

what Gil's leaving behind
the pension

The crapper

The crapper
When you got to go

manatee

manatee
a really thirsty one

Florida

Florida
dolphins

fishing off coast of Cuba

fishing off coast of Cuba
dinner

Gil's tuna

Gil's tuna
Only 28 pounds

thirty pounds tuna

thirty pounds tuna
how to fillet on a rolling sailboat

crossing to mexico

crossing to mexico
hitchhiker