Hey Y'all

I'm going to start by saying it's been awhile since I had an internet conn. and this one is kind of slow. I'll just let you know what we have been doing. We left Santa Marta Feb. 9 and sailed for 2 days along the coast of Colombia arriving at a little bay on the Panama coast called ( Punta Perme).

The first couple of hours there we were visited by several Kuna Indians in dug out canoes wanting to sell us Molas and trinkets. We managed not to buy any at that moment but as you know things change. Next to visit us was 2 Kuna ladies in full Kuna dress and handed me a piece of paper with $ 10.00 on it. It seems you pay 10 to 15 dollars at each island for anchoring. We stayed there for a couple of days and started heading up island.

There is something y'all should know, there is no night sailing in the San Blas,daylight only. This is due to no charts of the area. My electronic chart plotter has blue areas and brown areas on it and thats all. When you are anchored at an island it may show you on the island are on the next island. This is not fun with all the reefs that are here. You look out at what you think should be open sea and all you see is breaking reef line everywhere.

Well the next island to visit was Isla de Pinos, a large bump in the road about 2 miles long and 1 mile wide with a small mountain in the middle. This is our first look at a Kuna village, we will see plenty more before we get out of here. Well because of the guide book we had to climb to the top of the little mountain because of the breath taking view. Nobody thought to tell karen that the guide book was published 12 years ago, you guessed it the breath taking view was all grown over with trees and scrub brush. The Kunas can care less about the view. Oh well we had a nice 3 hour climb anyway.

One of the Kunas came out to the boat telling us of his restarant that he had so we went in for lunch. Now this is a joke, here we are in a pole and grass hut with a dirt floor with the whole family eating at there table. I will admit that the food was good,but that's because it was coconut smoked fish, just because it was a Parot fish off the reef didn't mean anything.

I have uploaded 2 photos up top because I can't get the damn things to load where I want them, but as you see the village is rather primative and the restarant owner is short as are all of these indians. Ok thats enought for to day as I have a couple hundred e-mails to go through. I'll go to the next little island in a day are two with a couple more photos.

See Y'all Down the Road

Mike & Karen