What a scary experience. Unexpected visitors made me get up fast like a rocket. I was happily sitting on the back of Altimate cleaning some fish. My legs were enjoying the cool water when suddenly a dark something appeared from underneath Altimate. Never ever was I that fast!!! My legs were shooting out of the water and my heartbeat was slightly accelerated. Those guys really made me jump! Fortunately they were only nurse sharks but hey I never was so close to a shark before!!
one of the nurse sharks investigating the areaI thought they were quite big 😳 – The dinghy has a length of nearly 3 ma sucker fish following the shark
the next day we threw some fish bones in the water and within minutes 5 sharks including their sucker fish appeared again.
Nargana
We just had a quick stop here to get some groceries
not the most beautiful village and the island is not very traditional anymorein the left background the bridge from Nargana connecting to CorazonNargana has quite a few brick houses
Snug Harbor
a part of Snug harbour those guys offered us this huge crab, we preferred a fishit was a big one!and we took this one a trigger fish; it was a delicious one but it would have been nice to know how to handle the leather like skinSailing vessel “Brightnest”the day we made a video at the beach of the island with no nameme getting on the SUP with my fancy dress🤣we were taking the dinghy out and explored some other small islandsI do have a strong Captain, don´t I ?a new mangrove
Stand-Up-Paddling (SUP)dressed up and the proof I didn´t fall!!!the amazing drone pic from Brightnest covering the nice bay of Snug Harbour
Easter at Snug Habour
Easter ears growing at the beachEaster bunnies at Snug Harbourjust another beautiful sunsetsome easter deco
Some pics of the trip to Islandia
on the way to Islandia we passed by this sad pictureovercasted mountains and an always welcomed cell towerAlligali,a village before the anchorage of Islandia Alligandi was also an island, though it looked from our perspective as if built on mainlandone of the two pic I made from the anchorage of Islandia, we went there to snorkel but the waves and current were too strong a Guna couple arriving
Achutupu and Isla Piña
we dared to take some pics when nobody was around in Achutupohere I asked the owner to take some pics; one can see how much work it is to make an ulu, pretty amazing and all made just by handsome more fish for us, they even had baby sharks arriving at Isla Piña we were not alone, just after we were settled another boat joined us, it was an Austrian couple (its hard to see at the right of the pic)the village of Isla Pinathe Austrian boat Mota
Obaldia
Obaldia is also very small and greenwe landed at this beach with the tenderdid they run out of “R´s”?they used these horse-drawn carriages a lot for transporting heavy materialand Victor, the port captain of obaldia enjoying a selfie with us
Sapzurro/Colombia
the view of the bay from Altimatea part from Sapzurro´s bay from ashorethe other end of the baymore baythis boat was washed ashore just a couple of month before – so sad, we met the owner Andy; he was not yet sure what to do with the boatno, El Capitano was not playing golfthe small church of Sapzurrojust in case someone needs a haircut…one day we walked to Capurgana that is the next village just a tiny bit bigger than Sapzurro; it was an intense though beautiful 1,5 hour walk over the hills I´m not sure anymore if that was the bay of Sapzurro or Capurgananot the best pic but for sure the bay of Capurganathey use donkeys for transportation, but where is the donkey?here we gothe other side of the hill already in CapurganaI just like horsesthe next day we wanted to visit La Miel, a 30 min walk to the very small village already belonging to Panamá; at the top of the hill it was to late in the afternoon, the police officer did not let us go furtherthe bay of La Mieland the view of Sapzurrosome pretty tile art in Sapzurroa posing El capitanoat the far end of the east baysome sunbrella decoration at a beachvery low hanging fruits , unfortunately not yet ready to eata very pretty hostelEl CapitanoLa Capitanathe view from our anchorageand sweet little baby sleeping on the floor, we bought some delicious avocados and papaya from her parents, they live at the beachthat might have been a baby iguana?
Isla Fuerte
selfie with donkeysomewhere at the village at Isla Fuerteif I remember right that was the tree called TunTun, not sure what made it so special my guess, this was a young walking treeslash and burn agriculture?the walking treean indeed impressive treepeacocks were sneaking through the woodsit was difficult to believe that it was only just one tree with all its aerial rootshaving a drink at a lodge where we were anchoredand miss cat was enjoying her afternoon napjust another path to somewherePlaya Cebolletaa walk to Punta Florenciasometimes it did look a little like ItalyI do love the cute roofsmorte peacocks
Isla Tintipan
we passed this buoy, landing platform for boobies (I think)our anchorage in Tintipanthere were some pretty nice hotels at the beach line, but nothing else . behind the hotels mangroves that was itit was possible to walk along the beach side from hotel to hotel, but that took us only about 5 minutes, not much to do at Tintipan ashorea baby ray the hotel staff was bored so they showed us their rooms, we didn´t ask for that, but curious how I am I had a look😉, big bedsbig chairsthe pool areathe beach walkwe met Raphael and his wife Nerina at the beach, they had a small restaurant and cooked for us, because there were so many mosquitos in the evening they had decided to deliver the food to Altimate, very nice guyswe also visited Islote, a small man made ilsand I think these guys were kept for cockfightsthe even had an aquariumthe kids were using the aquarium as apoolmany fish in there, all the same kind, we also saw some turtlesa different kind of aquariumcolourful alleyschool kids having a chat
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