Today we visited one of the islands in the San Blas Islands group. Before we reached the islands about noon, I did a little bird watching/picture taking. I'm still trying to identify what type of birds the y are.
The San Blas islands are a group of islands in the archipelago de San Blas, located in the Northwest of Panama facing the Caribbean Sea. There are 378 islands within the archipelago and they are scattered around in an area of about 100 square miles. It was a cloudy hazy day so pictures taken from a distance are not very clear.
The native people living on the San Blas islands are the Kuna indians. They are a small but proud community of around 300 people in total. The Kuna mainly survive by fishing and harvesting fruits, especially coconuts, and tourism. The Kuna’s also create art on their bodies and clothes that they call Molas. I supported the economy by buying a beer at one of the local "bars".
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| sunrise over the southern Caribbean |
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| The island we visited |
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| the island to the right |
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| the main street |
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| our ship in the distance |
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| this is a pretty good beer |
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| many small boats running between the islands and the mainland |
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