Sapzurro is the first golf in Colombia. We unloaded Palomina first and then we went by taxi-boat to Capurgana, the next golf, to get the passports stamped. Then we returned to Sapzurro to spend the night there.
Arrival in Sapzurro
The Kuna village
There were hundreds of small islands on our way. Usually after 5PM the catamaran was anchored close to one of them and we were able to swim to the shore. Most islands were uninhabited and less than 100m wide, with only few palm trees and birds. Some were habited by the kunas and one even had an air strip and officers that stamped our passports.
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Fritz the Cat
Fritz the Cat was our ride out of Carti. A 15m catamaran capable of sleeping up to 15 people (or so) sailing under the Austrian flag having Herr Fritz, from Austria, as the capitan and chef. Beside him, onboard there was Luis, the Colombian sailor and a former tiger trainer at circus, Siegfried, from Germany, Tulay, a Turkish lady also from Germany (both were capitan’s friend), and two other paying customers (at a rate of US$395 per person and US$395 per bike with all meals, coffee, tea and water included for 5 days): Gerolamo, an Italian actor living now in Berlin and Hitay, a Turkish webmaster. So, after struggling for one month to understand Spanish I had to start it all over since the most spoken language onboard was German. Everybody was a fan of traveling and stories about Cambodia, Venezuela, Spain, Cuba, South Africa and even Antarctica never stopped from being told. It felt like everyone was enjoying a non-stop vacation!
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More Baja
We continued our way down with the intention to ride on the peninsula until Santa Rosalia and take the ferry to Hermosillo. Not much luck with that 🙁 First, when we got to the Fox Studios in Rosarito we found out that the Titanic setting has been dismantled only 5 months ago. I always wanted to see that, since I think the movie was great. Then, as we reached Ensenada, we were informed that a flood has ruined a major bridge and, as a result, there roads are closed southbound. So we had to ride back to the border, towards Mexicali.
The Kuna Taxi
Seeing the dock, I was expecting some sort of Ro-Ro feature but no, we had to muscle Palomina (the bike’s name, after the horse in Guatemala) in the boat. The trip to the catamaran cost us US$25 and it took less than 10 minutes. Imagine the effort with the directions being shouted in English, German, Spanish, Kuna and Romanian.
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