Sailing to the Galapagos Vlog 68

It's almost 900 nautical miles from Panama to the Galapagos, there can be huge ocean currents (we had 4 knots with us at one stage then mostly 2 against us the rest of the way), you have to cross the infamous doldrums, there are frequent squalls of torrential rain, massive fish to be caught plus the momentous countdown from North to South as we cross the equator and are transformed by nautical folklore from pollywogs to proper shellbacks! We risk putting up our unicorn sail - the genneka who we have ripped 4 times to date. We also land a giant mahi, see whales, and are visited by the famous red footed boobie. All in all it's an action packed 6 day passage to arrive at the fabulous Galapagos islands. We are the Robbins family sailing on our boat named Nikau. We are a family of 5. Our 3 kids are doing NZ correspondence school on board. They are growing to love it! What's not to love about 3 hours of school a day and then a different playground for the afternoon every day! We've traveled from New Zealand to Sardinia in Italy to pick up our boat and we plan over a few seasons to sail her back to New Zealand. We hope you enjoy following us on our adventures! We would love to hear from you. Especially if you are interested in doing something crazy like we are! Maybe we can help answer some questions you have? Thanks and enjoy.