Wednesday 5 March 2008

San Blas Islands

...SAN BLAS ISLANDS-PANAMA...


...STAHLERATTE name of our sailing boat-deal was we all had to cook and help run the boat-here PRITTI helping to raise the sails as I down a cold one!...21 on board -18 pessengers and 3 crew from GERMANY-11 NATIONALITIES on board and we all got on like house on fire-4 nights stay so we made 4 groups and each group once had to cook breakfast-lunch-dinner for others!!!...we had to cook on the last day and we made INDIAN FOOD that others will remember forever...our group had us 3 ,RICHARD from Leicester and MELVIN from Texas US...


...me relaxing in a hammock-it was non-stop PARTY for 5 days as we sailed from CARTAGENA-COLOMBIA in CARIBBEAN SEA through SAN BLAS ISLANDS off PANAMA...brilliant sunrise and sunsets-free flowing beers and rum and fantastic company...

...after sunset at sea as we enjoy dinner on first day cooked by ANDY and his gang...
...true PARADISE in every sense as we arrive at SAN BLAS ISLANDS-there are over 300 tiny FANTASY ISLANDS-only ten or so inhabited-all covered by coconut trees-white powder sand beaches and turquoise CARIBBEAB SEA-all islands are just tiny -some one km by half a km-just gorgeous...
...STAHLERATTE has six stunning sails-has to be the most enjoyable sea journey ever-GERMAN Captain named LUDWIG-real gent but very mad and crazy-he was laugh a minute...
...one of the many activities carried out by those not on duty in the kitchen!!!!-here DARCY from AUSTRALIA swinging in to the CARIBBEAN from the rope hanging from the sail mast...
...VEDANTA and PRITTI swimming and snorkelling their way to one of the island from our ship...

...what can I say!...the picture just says it all...
...VEDANTA had time of her life on STALHERATTE as she made friends with every one of them and they all enjoyed her company too...here she is floating towards her dream island and it's only 100 meters away!...
...barbi on the beach-it was all day affair on our own little paradise and we all had loads of beer and rum and today it was all done by our American friends RYAN,MEGAN and their gang....

...barbi will go on late in to the night...island of total perfection and there are over 300 of these within swimming distance of each other...
...as sun begins to set and the PARTY goes on...total bliss...
...one amazing day in four days of total ectasy...
...SAN BLAS islands belong to PANAMA ...some of the islands are home to KUNA people-unique indigenous community...all SAN BLAS islands plus some of the mainland PANAMA are an AUTONOMOUS region run by KUNA people with little interference from national government ...you have to admire KUNA people for their achievement of total autonomy from PANAMA and you also have to admire the PANAMA GOVERNMENT for trusting the KUNA people by giving them the autonomy...






1 comment:

Pufferfish said...

Your photos are so nice! We are thinking of going there in late May and I can now see how truly beautiful it really is in these islands.
That is so cool that you brought your daughter with you on the boat! What a great adventurous family!