outdoors

That time of the year...

Actually, rainy season won't get really extreme until November or thereabouts, but parts of Panama just had the rainiest April on record and we're getting some impressive downpours in May, too.

Now are you a foreigner who's never lived here, thinking about coming to Panama to live and reading on some website about how we don't have inclement weather on the isthmus? In that case we strongly advise you not to trust anything that whoever or whatever told you that ever says or writes.

But then, there are some of us who LIKE rainy season. Maybe you have to be a mad dog, Englishman or Oregonian to understand it like a Colon buay does.

Does the revelation that most of Panama counts its annual rainfall in the hundreds of inches change your plans? Well, we do have the so-called Dry Arc around the western side of the Gulf of Panama, which in its dryest part includes the Sarigua Desert.

And know ye well that the editor's ginger, passionfruit and culantro, all of which are found in the little patch of ground shown above, also love this kind of weather.

Photo by Eric Jackson

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