that nice boat was sailing through the waters of Esnasdup , I just liked the shape of itwe had a fast sail but it was a also wet sometimesthose curious Kuna Girls asked to come aboard Altimate when anchoring in Puerto Perme, cute girls but I can’t recall their namesthis screw wrench, which we luckily could borrow from another sailor, saved us to break the lid of our waterfilter; Norbert had tried to get it off for hours without any success – it was tighten way too tighthere we had a nice ice cream at “Plaza de San Diego” in the centre of Cartagena Plaza de Bolivar
Some images of Cartagenas evening atmosphere
Plaza de San Pedro ClaverPlaza de Santa Teresawalking along the wall Batman was surprising little girls another “quinceañera” (celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday , dressing up and taking pics in public)the couple slowly getting older 😁a close up from the quinceañera-girlin the background Boca grandepoets writing poems at “Parque de las Flores”a typical street in the centrea view to a backyardReina the sewing lady in white and her helper
A walk at Boca Grande
walking along the “Paseo peatonal Bahia” the promenade at Boca Grandeat the south east tip of Boca grandethe south beachthe pick up boats heading to Isla Tierra Bombathe south west tip beach
Last random pics of Cartagena
sometimes we treat ourselves “Noli Me Tangere”, the white marble monument at “Camellón de Los Mártires”, represents freedom and resistance against oppression and the famous “Torre del Reloj”I just liked that donut Sympsons carthe centre park ”El Centernario Plaza” was finally open againa birthday surprise in front of the marina for whoeverthose sweet ladies where sitting next to the marina almost every day selling sweets ”El Centernario Plaza” by dayand the park with Norberto
Mostly Isla Fuerte
Isla Rosarios by sunsetthe anchorage at Rosarios in the morninga pic of Santa Cruz del Islote, famously known as the most densely populated island on Earth, we had visited the first time but weren’t very impressedanchorage at Isla FuerteIsla Fuerte provides nice walking trails that looks so cosy the smaller “walking tree” of the island from the inside of that treethe highest point of the islandhere a part of THE “walking tree” I do miss flowers bougainvillamangoes soon ready to picmore donkeysbam! what a colourPuerto Limón, Isla Fuerte’s little townwe had a limonada and this guy was passing by with all his plastic baskets, buckets and more, unfortunately I didn’t catch him bettera proud roosterback at the Eco lodge , Altimate peeks out between the trees if you look closelythe peacock was still at the lodge
Back in Sapzurro
We had great sailing conditions as well as great watching champions league conditions here comes the proof:
Soccer at seaalways beautiful staying in Sapzurrowe had even found a place we hadn’t been before, the cemetery of Sapzurrojust in case you were wondering what I was doing with all the coffee bags I collecteda rainbow above the hillsanother trip to Miel which provided again a perfect view of the bay of Sapzurroalready down at Miel a proof of that we all use way too much plastic- it often ends up like here at the shores- very sadI took this selfie to give an impression of how many tourist came that day to Miel (Panama); just because they could buy tax free here? that was so crazy, there was beach, palm trees, a few huts and this tax free giant shop- unbelievable to us but it seemed very appreciated by Colombian touristsa tourist burning in the sun in Miel
Off to San Blas
my birthday breakfastthe birthday girlall the pics I had this time from my birthday here we visited Caledonia, a Kuna village, as I know the Gunas don’t like to be photographed, I took only boring picsnot sure if that was a bathroom papaya trees are always amazing to me, they put all their energy in their fruits we had never seen such a clean village, they even seemed to separate garbage nowadays, I just don’t know where they get rid of itrainbow alighting the palm trees
Bahia Golondrina/ Snug Harbour and Esnasdup
a dinghy stroll within the bayAltimate looked so smallthat was the entrance of Bahia Golondrina, a very protected mangrove baythe hills ashore were most of the time covered inn cloudswe caught a huge king mackerel we had more than 3kg of fish filet- a challenge to eat it all before getting badthat was one of the islands with the difficult name Guannirguinnitdup, we wanted to stay there but it was too rollybutterfly sailing to Esnasdupand finally fresh goodies
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