Woke up at 4:30am to catch a sweet completely beat-up 1985 Toyota LandCruizer at 5am. The truck had no front or back lights, no front bumper or grill, the windows only open and close by pulling them by hand and the exhaust came into the car because the wheel-well inside the car was made out of cardboard… funny. Offroading was sweet/crazy, lots of mud, and we drove through a river too. We took a small boat run by the Kuna´s (Native Panamians) to our huge 1903 40 meter, 250 ton, metal pirateship.
The boat spent 3 days anchored in the San Blas Islands. There are actually over 200 islands in the San Blas. We spent our time next to about 6 tiny deserted islands. They had beautiful white sand beach, and palm trees. Some of them were so small they could only fit a few palm trees on them. We did tons of snorkeling, saw a dolphin, some lobsters, and tons of colourful fish. A bunch of us got dropped off at a tiny island with only 5 palm trees to snorkel. We didn´t want to wait for our ride back to the pirate ship so we decided to build a sweet log raft and floated back to the boat. We then had a bbq on an island for supper & chilled out into the night with beer, a campfire, guitar, and bongos. We also swam to the boat in the dark it was a little scary but the water lit up around us so it looked like there was sparks in the water!
Still at the San Blas Islands. Linda went sailing in a small sailboat and Edmundo went snorkeling with Laurent, a cool french scubadiving instructor. Linda explored the islands and Edmund saw a huge sting ray, a nurse shark, a barracuda, and tons of other cool underwater stuff! Linda came by and picked up Edmund and we went out to a tiny deserted island and checked-out a huge ship wreck. When we got back to the ship we setup a swing from the top of one of the sails and launched ourselves into the water.
The boat left at 6am for our 30 hour ride to Cartegena, Colombia. The waves where really rough and a few people spent most of the time puking off the side of the boat. Most people felt kind of uneasy and we all spent most of the day sleeping because of our seasickness pills. We saw some cool flying fish and….. about 30 dolphins came and swam in front of the boat for about 5 minutes!!!! It was so cooool! They were all jumping out of the water and playing on the wake of the boat.
