Now this is living! A remote island all to ourselves during COVID.

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In this episode we continue exploring the beautiful San Blas islands in Panama.

After a great week in the Holandes Cays we decide to lift the anchor and sail to the next island group called the Coco Banderos Cays.
We had heard and read so much about how beautiful Coco Banderos is that we couldn’t wait to see it.

The sail there was around 8 nautical miles from the Holandes Cays. We had wind at last so were able to hoist the sails, something we had not done in a while! It felt really great to be under sail again, even though it was only for a short time.

We arrived in Coco Banderos and dropped anchor near our friends on Rafiki, shortly afterwards our friends on Domum arrived too.

Shawn couldn’t wait to get the drone up and take a look around. We like to use the drone to see where all the reefs are and where about we are sitting in the anchorage. Its also great to see where we want to explore on the dinghy.

Each day consisted of school in the mornings and fun in the afternoon.
We did a couple art and splicing lessons on board Mokara with the kids from Domum, which were good fun.

The underwater life is the San Blas is the best we have seen. The boys were pulling crayfish and crabs out of the water on a daily basis. We were definitely not going to starve! It was in Coco Banderos that Dylan managed to catch our biggest crayfish ever.

As we’ve mentioned before we are always surprised at the amount of plastic we see on these deserted beaches.
It really shows the impact the human race is making to our planet, and how even in these remote islands you can still feel our impact.
We made it our goal to clean as many islands as we possibly could!
So everyday along with lots of fun, we systematically worked our way around most of the Coco Banderos islands. Collecting all the trash and burning it. It was backbreaking work but we had loads of help from Lute and Marlene on Rafiki and Rute, Joao, Marta, Afonso and Carmen on Domum. We managed to collect over 100kgs. Sadly we know that if we went back there now the beaches would be filled with plastic again, but at least all the plastic we removed is out of the oceans forever! Hopefully if we all pick up trash when we go to beaches we can make a big difference together.

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