Before traveling to Escudo de Veraguas, Sandcastle was flushed out of the Chagres River as the flood gates of the Gatun Lake Dam were opened to spill off excess water dumped into it by torrential downpours of rain for three days running! Once out of the river we had to make up our mind whether to push on to Bocas del Toro, an overnight trip, or go back to Shelter Bay Marina, a two and a half hour trip. Bocas won as we didn’t want to spend the money for the slip. However, the seas were sloppy, bumpy, the deck wet and it is raining. No matter, on we go to Bocas or Escudo de Veraguas as it turned out. The night passage was uneventful, wet but uneventful. The next morning with the island of Escudo
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