San Blas – Panama (2017-2018)

Dear friends, it is a long time since we last updated this blog. Many things have happened, including our “vacations” in Italy for the summer time. We promise that we will catch up with our adventures in these last few months. Shelter Bay – on the …

We left Chichime to reach the Carti Islands, the only place nearby where we could buy some food and the gasoline for the “resurrected” outboard engine. In fact, we learned that it is highly recommended not to use gasoline mixed with oil that was stor…

  Tiadup – Lemmon Cays We woke up in between Miriadup, Naguarchirdup and Tiadup, a beatiful set of “dup”, “island” in Kuna language. The day was beautiful, sunny and with almost no wind. We then decided to take the opportunity to walk up the …

Dog Island Dog Island is the first of the Eastern Lemmon Cays that you encounter coming from West. It is famous for the wreck that lies submerged a few meters from the beach. It is what remains of a cargo whose captain in the ’50s decided to beach d…

Akuadargana – Western Holandes Cays We left the Eastern Lemmon Cays heading to the Holandes Cays, another group of islands still quite visited by sailors. We anchored in front of Akuadargana, close to a large, beautiful ketch owned by an Italian nob…

We left the Holandes Cays in search for internet connection since we were not able to communicate with our relatives since days. We sailed towards Cayo Bandero, another beautiful group of islands south east of the Holandes. Not finding signal, we con…

On January 15th (actually the 16th at 3.00am) we got back to Panama, where we spent the following day making provisions for the next two months on board. After a long bus ride to Panamarina, we finally got back on board of Zoe. We were quite anxious…

On January 24th we headed toward the Naguargandup Cays, anchoring in front of Cambombia, the Eastern of the cays. This beautiful island is home to two very friendly Kuna families, who run a “restaurant” serving among other dishes, the “cambombia”, a …

On the 17th of February Marie-Helene and Thierry, a couple of long time friends from France joined us after an adventurous journey. The transfer from Panama City to Carti lasted about 3 hours going through dirty roads, including passages&nb…

After our friends left we moved to Banedup in the Eastern Lemmon Cays. Together with Chichime, Banedup is one of the most crowded islands of the San Blas. In fact, it is a meeting place especially for the Italian cruisers who often organize parties o…