A day at Mono Island, at San Ignacio de Tulipe and then 3 days at Aridup before heading to Nargana and reaching Green Island and the surrounding islands…
the entrance of Mono IslandAltimate still alone at Mono Islandlater Ruffian joined us; some Gunas were trying to sell some fisha typical view from the boatevening impressions
San Ignacio de Tulipe
This was a slightly bigger island where it was possible to connect to wifi. That was the reason for us to stop as I wanted to get in touch with my parents. We also had a stroll around and were impressed by the prosperity of this island. They even had a bank!!! No proof as I didn’t dare to take pics. They had a fairly modern bridge connecting the main island with a smaller one which looked like a school project or something similar.
pic taken from the bridge, looking at the south east side of the islanda small capture from the islandreaching the other side of the bridgeI could not find any information about that projectthis looked like a gardening projectshowers made for what?a working areaonly one pic taken on the Main island at the north west end
Aridup
The guide book said it was a great snorkelling area which was absolutely true, but it also mentioned it to be just a day anchorage. We disagreed completely as the anchor hold well and it was very calm. The reason why we didn’t want to leave.
a beautiful anchorage just in front of the reefAridupour first stroll at Aridupunfortunately these islands have not been spared from pollution eithersooooo greeenand beachyand beautifulAltimate hoovering in the pretty blue
Green Island and Waisaladup
Nargana was not a nice island so we only stopped for the night and left early to get to Green Island only a few miles further.
Waisaladup close to Green Island, some people call it the office as the internet reception was pretty good; the radio transmitter was pretty close😉not sure what that was but it looked interesting to meEl Capitano entering Waisaladupat the back Green island and a lot of boatsthe hut the whole view of Green Islanda walk along Green Islandsmall white barnacles occupying a trunka Guna in his ulua pretty star fish
Coco Bandero Cays
Tiadup, a small island before reaching our anchorage; a Guna family lives there; sometimes they provide some food; when we visited we were not luckyour opulence of Bananaswe were right anchored between two islets, Olosicuidup and GuariadupJuan ( if I rememer his name correctly) climbing up a palm tree to get us some “pipa” green coconutshere the anchorage, the grey parts are the islands, the yellow patches the reefsif you look closely you can see three of the Guna menOlosicuidup Guariadup, here we saw our first big rays, very beautiful, but no proof -sorry
The anchorage in East Holandes called the “Swimming pool”
our first approach at Banedup, the island where Ibin the chief cookshe made this path from the north to the south side of the islandsome of his simple though pretty decorationsin the background the “Honeymoon sweet” 😁yes indeed Ibin has a plan to build some more of these huts which he calls ” Honeymoon suite”; we doubt that anybody will actually book it; so far he sleeps in there every night; it’s at least bug free!in the back the island which the sailor cal BBQ-Island, its north of BanedupIbins kitchenMarta the sister of Ibin in her traditional cloth helping Ibin in the kitchenfresh lobster waiting to get cookedIbins restaurantthe bitch with her newborn babieswe accidentally gathered together and had a fun evening while enjoying Ibins foodPipa drinks and ceviche as starterveggie delivery at the swimming pool from some busyness oriented Gunas; here they were taking care of Heikii, Finnish solo sailor
East Lemon Cays
A pretty anchorage in shallow water. We stayed only for a night as it was rather busy.
El Capitano standing in the watersometimes the Gunas also put some sails up and use the wind to move ona veggie boat passed by, we happily took what we could get
Lemon Cays
We had a two day stop in between several reefs within this island group. It sounded nice but the Island Tiadup was disappointing. They do have a few apartments to rent but they did not look very well after their island. It looked dirty and half cleared. At least they had a small reception and bar and they were very friendly.The world champion ship soccer games were on. Rather for fun we asked if they would watch football as we saw a small tv. Very surprisingly to us they said yes and they even said they would be happy to invite us for watching. We certainly had not expect watching soccer at the San Blas. Very kind people!
El Capitano happythe audience 😂; we were only four!!! But we were happywe liked the birds and they were flying close by so we could get some nice pics
Chichime, just north of the Eastern Lemon Cays
A small island which nowadays accommodates a few tourists. We stayed two nights and then took of to Linton Bay.
pretty Chichime, well the island is actually called Uchutupu Dummatthis guy didn’t seem to be scared of usan old wreck which hit the reef of the Chichime Cays; I did not find out when it happened and whyis that another name for the island?green, green, greenthe rotten palm tree leaves do look a little like woven cottonanother name???colourful houses which where for rent catch of the day on our way to Linton
Linton Bay
Marina Linton Bay; this crazy construct is a floating apartment, which can be rentedthe marina looking north eastin the back Isla Cabrafootball!!!! unfortunately the German did not very wellthe big audience watching, Herwig, El Capitano and Heikewe also met this nice couple Swiss/ British Daniela and Mike, they have the exact same boat as we have! t was the first time since we left La Rochelle that we saw another Ovni 365 and they were also friends with our dear Canadian friends from Carina😊waiting for a bus to come to take us to 4Alto a mall close to Colon, a 2,5 hour ride just to buy some groceriesthe area was beautifuland some passengers were crazypassing the ruins of Portobelo wallsthe welcoming bus stop close to the mallwe spent more than 500 US; the advantage was that the supermarket then provided a lift back to the marinaI thought that was kind of cool using the wingfoil on a dinghy, here in the anchorage at Linton Baya walk to Linton harbour, the small village with a Chinese super-allround-market, providing food, DIY parts and bicyclesI just liked the picture of Daniela and meand a beautiful impression of our corroded anchor winchthe entrance of Linton Bay, we were again waiting to take the bus ;this time going to Portobelo to get some cash, ATM’s were very rare but you often had to pay cash; we were lucky that day as our friends from Basta located at turtle Cay Marina suddenly came by with a car; they offered us a lift to Portobelo and back😁we had a lunch stop at PortobeloMike catching a nice picAlex, El Capitano, Mike and the carwe had a stroll to Linton harbourso many chicken
this duck was always sitting there and moving with the music😂
SY Altimate 
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