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Hiatus's Photos - Panama
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San Blas (Porvenir) – Porvenir is a small island with a short airstrip and Port Captain office, next to the island is this small spit of sand with a single hut on it. We came to Porvenir twice, once to check in and pay our Kuna cruising tax and once to check out of Panama and get our zarpe. Each time this little island looked like such a wonderful spot for some family to live on.
San Blas (Dog Island ) – Shipwreck from a cargo ship in 1950. The ship developed a leak and the Captain beached the ship to save the cargo.
San Blas (Dog Island ) – Bow of the ship.
San Blas (Dog Island ) – Cargo hold area of the ship.
San Blas (Dog Island ) – Lots of colorful coral and fish now call this shipwreck home.
San Blas (Dog Island ) – Lots of color, but of course pictures do not quite do it justice.
San Blas (Lemmon Cays) – While the water colors are beautiful, they are also shallow and dotted with coral reefs and sand bars so entering and exiting an anchorage can be a bit tricky. So far our caution has paid off and we haven’t run aground.
San Blas (Lemmon Cays) – Approaching our anchorage. Cannot get enough of the palm trees!
San Blas (Eastern Lemmon Cays ) – Ulu (canoe) heading for home after a day of fishing.
San Blas (Dog Island ) – Kuna skiff used to get from island to island.
San Blas (Isla Pinos) – This is one of the more traditional Kuna villages. It was the cleanest and most interesting as well.
San Blas (Isla Pinos) – Palm on the beach. This was one of the few islands in the San Blas chain that was good for walking. Most of the islands were small or didn’t have enough sand along the shoreline.
San Blas (Nargana) – A lone outhouse over the water away from the center of Nargana which is a large, western styple Kuna town.
San Blas (Nargana) – This island is home to 2,000 Kunas who have given up the old ways and adopted a western approach to living. While the town has electricity 24 hours a day from a generator other services are rather primitive. Outhouses, which are 4 small tin roofed walls are constructed over the water just feet away from land. Let’s just say we wouldn’t swim in the water here or eat the fish from the water here. Nargana has an airstrip and this is where Bob and Glenn flew out of back to Panama City.
San Blas (Chichime) –Kuna men come by selling just caught lobsters, crab, and fish. We got a few medium size lobsters for $2/lb and Bob cooked these up nicely for dinner one night.
 
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