Die San Blas Inseln vor Panama

Ship: Johann Smidt
Date: 02.01.2026
Position: Karibisches Meer, San-Blas-Inseln
Nautical Position: 09°33,0’N, 078°57,1’W
Etmal: 128 nm
Total: 6723 nm

The first sentence of the day was: “Islands!” On the left and the right side of the boat, there were hundreds of small and beautiful islands. The different sizes of all islands are huge.

Some of them were so small that you could walk over the full island in less than a minute and some of the islands were really big. The typical island had beautiful white sand, some palms and around the sand there was crystal-clear ocean water.

I would say that around 30% of the islands were completely nature and on the rest of them there were some inhabitants, but no big cities.

If you see all islands at once, you have the impression that every single one of them is placed randomly in the ocean. After anchoring, we had time to go swimming. We jumped from the boat, the klüvertree and also from the shrouds.

But not everything was nice that day. At the same time when we were swimming, we lost Tom’s drone. The drone dropped into the water and was gone. We drove with the dinghy to the place where the drone dropped into the sea to look for it, but with no success.

The second thing today was that on our main dinghy the engine broke. We did nothing wrong; it just happened.
But now everything is okay again.

In the afternoon, we went on one of the islands where humans live. It was a really nice time. The island was small but nice. There was a place to play basketball and volleyball and we played both with the kids on the island.