First task this morning was to try Citibank in Cartagena to do the money transfer - no such luck, only if we had a Citibank account - even though the money was going to another Citibank account in the US!!.

Western Union - they cannot transfer money to a bank account only to a person!!

Finally Richard made the transfer in the US and the Panama agent authorized the release of the Tiger without the extra money. After that we only had to wait for the paper work to get done in the shipping agents office.

With the Bill of Lading in hand we were picked up by our Customs agent and spent some time at their office confirming various details. After lunch they took us to the local Customs house to schedule an inspection for tomorrow. We could not do any more today as the Tiger had not been unloaded yet. So the rest will be done tomorrow starting at 8:00 am at the Customs agents office. They seem confident that we will get the Tiger by the end of the day.!!

Our customs agent is a small family business - husband and wife and what looks like 2 employees. The wife Sonia was limping after pulling a calf muscle over the weekend. We got talking about our respective children - their 25 year old son lives in Michigan but is traveling in Brazil working on some form of poverty relief program.

That was all done by 3:00 pm so we had a little time for some sightseeing.

First stop was Cerro De La Popa a convent built in 1607 and perched on the top of the highest hill in the area. It had a wonderful view of the entire Cartagena area. We had been warned not to walk along the access road but to take a taxi. Once we saw it we understood why. The road is lined with run down shelters (I really could not call them all houses) of the poorest elements of Cartagena society.

Next stop was the Castillo de San Felipe De Barajas one of a number of forts built outside the walls of the old city. It's a really impressive place, dominates views of the city from many directions and has an amazing tunnel complex through the walls which in part is open to visitors.

As luck would have it we bumped into the Columbian/Swedish family we had met on Saturday and had a quick chat about us possibly visiting them in Bogota.