Guna Yala Islands (San Blas)

The San Blas island are a throw back in time to an earlier century. One where people lived off the land, had little electricity or potable water, no cars only carved out logs, and rules that were developed and enforced by a congress of like people. There are nearly 50,000 Gina’s scattered across 350 islands (and the mainland), who still live life this way. Some islands only have a couple families, some have little bars or restaurants and running water.
We snorkelled and walked the beaches of many of them, some inhabited and others not.
We were in three main island clusters: Salaradup, East Holendes (Swimming Pool, Banadup and Bug island), Green Island, Lemmon Cay (and a quick stop in Chichime), plus a check out at Porvenir (where they hold congress). I wrote an article for the Salty Dawgs detailing our journey to San Blas and the joy of being in these safe islands nestled off the coast of Panama: https://sdsa.memberclicks.net/my-favorite-ancho….
Here we also found new marine wonders… like the mermaids necklace. It looked like plastic in the water, so I removed it and realized it was alive. We looked it up later and realized it is a whelk snail egg sacks. We also found a very rare tritons trumpet (Large snail shell used in Hawaiian ceremonies), lots of big and living conch and starfish and strange remora fish that have suction at the top of there heads to attach to other creatures or boats.
Our next stop is Linton Bay, Panama for a few days to provision and find a weather window to Isla Providencia (Colombia).Read more