Friends from S/V Anka
Friends from S/V Anka Alex, Krisha and Adrian aboard S/V Anka One day in June I get a message, thanks to our blog, from Krisha, a Bulgarian woman who writes that she, her husband Adrian from Rumania and their 10-years-old son Alex are buying a sailboat named S/V Anka-1 in Curacao and sailing it to […]
Kitesurfing in San Blas
Ivo and his kite Most of the 360 islands of the San Blas Archipelago are near Panama’s mainland and away from the trade winds. But there are a few outer island groups near the barrier reefs to the north still getting the effects of the trades and these are the island you want to visit […]
Two Years of Sailing Anniversary
Two Years of Sailing Anniversary In July 2015 we celebrated the beginning of our third year of cruising and sailing around the world. As if it was yesterday when we moved aboard our new floating home in Key West (Florida)- a 38-foot Leopard catamaran Fata Morgana, and sailed south. Two years is not much, yet […]
Kuna Yala: Water
Water How many times have I written about “the small idyllic islands in San Blas with white sandy beaches and tall coconut palms, surrounded by crystal blue water and corral garden of exceptional beauty; where just a few Kuna families live in small huts near the shore fishing and collecting coconuts and wild mangoes”? How […]
Kuna Yala: Nightmares in Paradise
Nightmares in Paradise The San Blas archipelago of Panama, with its hundreds of small idyllic islands with white sand beaches and tall coconut palms, where the colorful Kuna Indians live in huts made of bamboo sticks and palm leafs, surrounded by crystal blue waters and coral gardens of exceptional beauty, are often portrait by […]
Kuna Yala: Rivers and Crocodiles
Rivers and Crocodiles After a couple of weeks around the small outer islands of the San Blas archipelago we sail to an island near the continent, named Rio Azucar (Sugar River) after a small river that runs down from the Darien Mountains and enters the sea. We drop anchor in the calm shallow waters not far from […]
Kuna Yala People: Master Mola Makers
Master Mola Makers Kuna Yala Woman by Maya The first time I saw them I thought they looked like flowers and butterflies in the Garden of Eden; like little skinny-legged ladybugs, shiny and red, amidst a vast wet turquoise landscape. So small and delicate, colorful and elegant are the Kuna women of the San Blas […]
Kuna Yala People: Ulu Men. Cowboys of the Sea
Ulu Men. Cowboys of the Sea In the morning, very early, before the first rays of sunlight gently touch the top of the tall palm trees with pale pink light, they crawl out of their hammocks, of their little huts, and disappear into the sea. We watch them every day passing near our boat, returning […]
Kuna Yala People: Children of The Moon
Children of The Moon 2-years-old Pilar, Kuna Yala Some nights are darker than black, when the Dragon of Death swallows the Moon. And extinguishes the murky silver light from the surface of the sleeping sea. The world stands still. Time suspended. These are the nights when the pale children emerge in the dark to defend […]
Kuna Yala: Slums of Paradise
Slums of Paradise by Mira Nencheva The first time we go to the island of Porvenir to check-in in Panama and Kuna Yala a few days after arriving in the San Blas islands, we find ourselves in yet another different world. Surrounded by pristine sea, isolated in one of the wildest corners of our planet, […]
