It's Been A While

Wow, what a busy spring and summer. I haven't had much time to post stuff on this. I think the last post was in March! Well there have been many adventures since.

After my EPIC snowboard trip with my brother Nick, I went out fishing for geoducks a few more weeks and then headed off to North Cackalacky for a much needed refresher in Wilderness First Responder and then staff training for my summer gig with Broadreach.

Once training completed I was blessed to have such amazing friends from the past put me up and showed me the awesome side of Raleigh and Baltimore. A big thanks to Mark, Marc, Michelle and Darren and Jan. Another thanks to this cool girl I met at Staff Training, Jess, for inviting me to Cape Hatteras for a weekend with some very sick kite surf pros from Jersey and California. It was pretty amazing to meet these peeps and the weekend was all-time. There was a tropical storm heading straight for us and it created some amazing wind for these pros.







Mid June I shipped out to Nassau in the Bahamas for a week waiting for my students to arrive. During this week it was Junkanoo, a couple weeks celebration for Bahamian Independence Day.  My students showed up and we headed to San Salvador for a week on Marine Bio and snorkelling around this sick island.











Panama was the next stop on my summer adventure. I had a few days to scout around Panama City and the coastline of the Chiriqui Province. There was this crazy bumpy goat road that wound on for 2 hrs going up and down some pretty gnarly mountains. The road is unpaved and is terrible during the rainy season, which was exactly when I was there. There were few rivers to drive through and some questionable bridges to cross but it was really worth it. I spent the night in Pixvae, a sleeply fishing village in the middle of nowhere with no electricity during most of the day/night. I stayed in a unfinished "hostal" with open windows. I had one of the best sleeps ever! The sound of bugs, birds, monkeys and whatever else may have lurking was surreal. Especially coming from DT Vancouver and all I hear is cops, ambo's, and firetrucks all day and night. The next stop was a boat trip to Isla Simca, a private island owned by Italian billionaire Jean Pigozzi. This is where the Liquid Jungle Lab is located. Also there is a pimp mansion used by celeb's and goes for $28,000 a night or $200, 000. Clearly we stayed in the Lab which was set up for Biologists of all kinds and is affordable.

The trip itinerary was crazy. It went something like this: Dive Isla Simca and Isla Coiba; surf Santa Catalina; hike, zipline, whitewater raft and climb Boquete and cap it off with some sailing in San Blas. And I got paid to do this. Pretty sweet gig if you ask me, just saying.

Anyhoo....
There is much to tell from this trip and I might just write some random adventures should I get the time.
Plus I have an arsenal of content now from this long pause of writing due to snowboard trips, fishing, 'Merica, Bahamas and Panama.

Later Homes