The boat we agreed to board was the Windseeker with an Aussie captain named Mike and his first mate a half Scottish, half Italian with a curly moustache (you had to see it). We left Cartagena on the 2nd May with the two crew, myself, Jo, an Isreali, Boris, his girlfriend Julia, a German girl, Maggy, and a Swiss lad, Danny. The trip was 6 nights and 7 days long, sailing through the San Blas Archipelago for $360 us.
The first 3 days was continuous sailing and not much scenery apart from the other 5 pasengers getting sea sick and leaning over the side of the boat. I tell a lie on our first day at one point we were accompanied by a pod of dolphins. On our thrid night we arrived at the first island and had a celebratory drink involving lots of cheap rum.
The next 3 days we were literally in paradise. We sailed and stayed the night off 3 different islands, all uninhabited, with white sand, palm trees and crytal clear waters. We had snorkelling gear to explore the coral, saw more dolphins, sting rays and many tropical fish. Our captain Mike was great appearing to do the trips for the love of sailing more than financial gain. The boat was also perfectly comfortable, it wasnt the largest but me and Jo had our own room and double bed.
There was a problem between Mike and the first mate Maurizio on the last night, which resulted in Maurizio getting kicked off the boat, for continuously getting caught stoned or pissed when he should have been working. Whilst he was banished to a near by island we were spending our last night drinking rum and eating lobster which we had bought of the local Kuna tribe at $11 us for 8 lobsters and an octopus. The next morning some local Kunas took us by canoe to the main land where we caught a jeep which drove through the jungle to Panama city.
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