This blog is about life onboard SV Moana Roa, a 46 foot sailing catamaran, and the journey from the Caribbean back to Australia. Laurie and Sonia, Travis, Beau, and Kara leave home on Christmas Island (Australian Indian Ocean Territories) in December 2012 and set sail in January 2013.


Monday, 27 January 2014

San Blas, Panama and the indigenous Kuna Yala people



The Kuna are great navigators in their sailing canoes - their skill in the dugout is amazing! 
Beautiful islands - a Kuna family may live on the island and collect a landing tax
Kuna women and children selling Molas from their dugout canoe... we gave the kids mini Koalas!
The boys sitting outside the shop in a Kuna village while the girls check out the Molas
Kara and Remi showing off their accessories - Mola bags
We enjoyed walking around this Kuna village... this is the Congresso or meeting hall
This Kuna fisherman sold us 7 lobsters for $25, and another fisherman came along and prepared them for us!
Diving on a shipwreck which had become a fish magnet
Their own island - the kids spent 3 days constructing huts from bamboo and palm  leaves
The Elephant Island sailing regatta - Optimist v Bug... Marley the dog is on the bow



Laurie got up from a transom start behind the 15hp dinghy - had to prove he still has it!
Australia Day and Steve's birthday!
Australia Day BBQ hut in the West Lemon group ... a great day where we had a good ol' meat pie and sauce
Australia Day volleyball match with the cruisers
Yacht rescue - pulling a group of Colombian backpackers off the reef, the skipper fell asleep at the helm!

Moana Roa taken from Remi-De

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