Sailing to Panama - Day 1

Up early to go pee, no one else was up yet, so went back to bed. The room has good airflow, but it's really stuffy and warm. I slept OK.

After going pee, I ended up falling sleep again and woke about after 8:30 sometime. Everybody else was up and eating breakfast, including dad.

Dad's not looking that hot. Yesterday he was complaining about fat ankles, you can hardly see them, as his ankles are all swollen. He didn't give any indication that they were bothering him, though.

This morning he said he didn't sleep very good and when he woke up, all his joints were really painful. Ankles, knees, fingers, etc. He was having troubles keeping his eyes open at breakfast, so he went back to bed.

Breakfast consisted of cereal, bread, fruit, oatmeal and coffee/tea. You eated whatever you wanted.

There was not that much to do. People read or laid in the sun or kept out of the sun or listened to music. As the sun got higher and hotter, pretty much everyone came into the shady area of the boat and a card game of President started.

Dad slept and slept all morning.

The boat has a cat named Luna. She's very friendly and is great at lounging in the hot shade.

Lunch consisted of pasta salad, it was quite delicious. Dad woke up and I brought some down to him. He said the joint pain was subsiding, but he was still looking not great. He went back to sleep afterwards.

A bit after lunch, the captain stopped the boat and we all went for a swim in the deep, blue water. The water was so clear, you could look down and see your feet as clear as anything.

We didn't see a single other boat or any land the whole day.

We saw a dolphin, it's fin breaking the water periodically.

Dad got up again for supper, which was various sandwiches that you made yourself. He went back to bed again after that.

I stayed up for a while, watching the phosphorescence, stars and the lightning in the distance, but was dead tired from the previous night, so went to need fairly early.