Panama Day 5

Today we hung out on the island until 3pm.  We had breakfast and lunch.  We went swimming and played cards.  We all had a nice nap.  Then we took the boat back to mainland Panama and had the windy 3 hour car ride back to Panama City.  We got tacos delivered to our Airbnb and we watched Tanner's basketball game on Kirt's computer.

Picture of the sunrise from out our cabin doors.

Sleeping Garret

Views of the cabin

Playing cards

Inside the cabin

Views of the island

Breakfast

Lunch

 

Panama Day 6

Kirt and Garret wearing their mola ties and Katie in her mola dress on our way to church. 

We went to church in San Vicente which is the 2nd area Katie served in.

The car we rented.  We parking lot doubles as a basketball court. 

 

Panama Day 4

Today we got up at 4:45am and were picked up at our Airbnb at 5:15am.  We drove 3 hours to the port to go and visit the San Blas Islands.  Garret unfortunately got car sick and we had to pull over so he could barf.  Thankfully, he did not barf in the car.  When we got to the port, we got in a boat and rode to a island that had lots of people living on it.  Our guide taught us about life on the island and gave a us a tour of the island.  Of course there were plenty of things for sale on the island made by the islanders.  Then we went to the island that we are staying on and dropped off our luggage and changed into our swimsuits.  Then we got back on the boat and went and visited several different islands.  We came back to our island around 3 and hung out an played cards and swam.  I swam across to another island that was about a quarter of a mile away.  There were only 3 cabins on the island and only 2 other girls staying on the island with us.  The island doesn't have any electricity so they use solar to power the generators a night.  The generators went out about 3am.  There was a bathroom and a shower.  The water for the shower was rain water collected in big 5 gallon barrels.  You had to poor water from a bucket into the toilet tank to get it to flush because the toilets weren't plumbed.  I'm pretty sure that it all just dumped into the ocean but I tried not to think about that.  It was pretty primitive, but we were grateful that we had a little fresh water to wash off the ocean salt and a toilet that flushed.  They cooked dinner for us.  There was fish or chicken.

First view of the Atlantic ocean

San Blas is the tourist name for the islands.  They are really called Gunayala.

At the port waiting for our boat

Our boat, the Angela II

The 1st island we stopped.  It had lots of people living on it.  

Resting in the hammocks

Delicious pina coladas served in a hollowed out pineapple

This is the island we are staying on.  We stayed in the hut on the right.