Taimati Arrival

At the writing of my last post I was waiting in Meteti to finally be able to catch a boat to my site of Taimati. Well, the day finally arrived when I would be able to show up at my new home. The boat was to arrive at 10:00 am so I got to Puerto Quimba at 8:45 am.  10 o' clock came and went without a boat, so I made friends with the local Senafront guys (Senafront is basically Panamanian boarder/drug control). My boat finally showed up at 12:15 and we grabbed some food then left by 12:45. We stopped in Las Palmas and docked there for a bit waiting for the tide to rise, although it was obviously going down demonstrated by the water line being distanced from where we layed our anchor on the shore. We waited until 2 when we went to Punta Alegre. Here the tide was noticably too low to enter Taimati anymore so we waited for the tide to go all the way out and start coming back in. This did not happen until about 7:30 pm. We finally got out of there with a rising tide... but I said rising, not high. The tide served us well until about one mile out from Taimati where we hit bottom. We sat in our boat, chatted, I played a little music from my iPod, and we waited. Our motor was up but every 15-20 minutes or so we had enough tide to push our boat an extra couple hundred feet. This led to the four of us all standing outside the boat and pulling it ashore as we could. Once we got within a stone's throw of the shore some awaiting people came out to help us pull it in. I had arrived, finally around 10:00 pm, I had arrived to my new home of Taimati.