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Es sieht hier aus wie bei einem Ausläufer des Paradieses
Not much to do here, but it is far from boring => GREAT |
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Summary: Größere Kartenansicht Panama – Kuna Yala (San Blas) Mittwoch, 29.05.2013, 22:30 – "Sonne, Inseln, Palmen, Strand und Riffe" - (Christian) Sehr schön hier!!! Essen, denken, bißerl arbeiten, schnorcheln und den Kunas beim vorbeipaddeln zusehen. Dienstag, 04.06.2013, 12:00 – "Inseln, Palmen, Riffe und Gewitter" - (Christian) Sehr schön hier!!! In der Zwischenzeit ist nicht viel passiert: Essen, denken, bißerl arbeiten, schnorcheln und den Kunas beim vorbeipaddeln zusehen, mit anderen Booten sozialisieren, den Wolken beim Hochtürmen zuschauen und hoffen nicht von einem Blitz getroffen zu werden ... Affenernter
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Priceexamples: in US-Dollars (1,38 USD = 1 Euro)) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Anchoring / Nautic Stuff and Infrastructure Kuna Yala, San Blas, Panama Anchorage „Coco Banderos“ Apio (Serapio Deleva from Rio Azucar, 60424262) came by and took notes on our order for tomorrow. It looked like a nice service, and we paid in advance, but he came only with some goods the day after tomorrow and wanted to sell an expired SIM-Card. I got my money back after an unpleasent conversation. We had to pay 10 US for anchoring, valid 1 month for (hopefully) all the Islands up to Holandes / Chichime. Anchorage „Green Island“ Cunas come by and sell Lobster or Mangos (a bag for 3US from Umberto). Anchorage „Chichime“ We stayed near the entrance in 10m, because we were boat No. 17. It is a place where the Backpacker-Transporters-Panama-Cartagena are gathering so it is a bit „touristy“. Nicer, shallower and calmer, but crowded when you go further in more. Much plastic rubbish floating in the water and ashore behind the 3m-strip-sandbeach which is "cleaned" by the Cunas. On the westisland they sell Kunabread (5 for 1US) and Molas (8 to 20 US). On the eastsland they sell Molas and do have a bar and volleyballnet. Cunas come by and sell Fish and Lobster (5 up to 20US). Anchorage „East Lemmon Cays“ We stayed near the outsidereef in 10m. Calm and nice, only one other boat while we entered. Cunas come by and sell Fish (3US for a Safira (Spanish Makarel) god for 3 persons and Lobster (ca. 5US). The Fruit- and Veggieboat "Nationalwater" with a very good selection (even whole chicken) gave us a visit. They come here once a week on tuesdays (fair prices). Another Fruit- and Veggieboat showed up thursday with a very good selection aswell. Cleaning Service hull, deck etc. was offered by Atilianoea (Atilano), 67089815, 66924738, 60448356. (20US a day (8am to 4pm)) Molas 20-100US were offered from the Mastermolamakers Lisa and Vinzenzio. Nautic-Guide - Bauhauscharts Panama We bought the book and are very happy with it! It is expensive but extremly helpful. We found a lot of details which our Navionic-Charts lacks like a reef 1m below water near Turtle Cay Marina towards Puerto Linton! Better you buy this guide before arriving in the San Blas, because it will be pure luck if you get it here! The Panama Cruising Guide You might get from someone unoffically scanned charts of this book for e.g. OpenCPN. We never heard that these electronic-charts can be bought somewhere offically. We heard: The usage of scanned Bauhauscharts for Panama is possible with OpenCPN 3.0.0, but not with 3.0.2. an up, where they are not recognized, because of the parameter PR=unknown in the kap-files, which was formerly automatically accepted (http://opencpn.org/ocpn/faq). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Weather The weather changes a lot and quickly!: The forecasting the weather in the range of the Innertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is obvious not easy (as you can see comparing ols and new forecasts)! No wind can very easy pick up to 45+ knots, when a squall passes by! I am not able to see, if a squall brings much wind or only rain. Rainy season: Everything between: Absolutely nice: light winds, no swell (depending on the anchorage), sunny, hot, good visibility. Absolutely shit: Squalls up to 50knots, rain, grey overcast skys (bad for solarpanells) and extrem ugly thunderstorms with scary lightning and eardamaging thunder (louder than thunder somewhereelse). Generally are the winds light and not constant. There is a land-sea-system. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Kuna Yala, San Blas I felt 8 out of 10 secure! We got your dinghy up at night, but did not chained it We locked everything "normal" while not onboard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Telephone / Internet with Digicel Panama It should be possible to get an internetconnection in San Blas, because they have Cellphonecoverage (when the Phonemasts are working). SIM-scratchcards in the San Blas may be purchased in Rio Diavolo, Carti and Whichiwalla (Maybe a sim aswell). Recharging: * 121 * code from the scratchcard # send Saldocheck: * 120 # send It is possible to go into the net with a normal tarif, but expensive 0,01US per KB. To keep the cost down you can get abos through these codes (Digicell): 1 day, 0,99 US * 142 * 40 # send 2 days, 1,50 US * 142 * 50 # send 10 days, 4,95 US * 142 * 60 # send 15 days, 8,95 US * 142 * 80 # send 30 days, max. 3GB, 14,95 US * 142 * 100 # send These codes worked with me, but one boat said, you should iniciate * 142 # first (I never did) Follow the instructions which are they send to you to confirm (sometimes it takes ca. 5 min to recieve an answer): Confirmation: * 142 * 1 # send Cancel: * 142 * 9 # send The plans could be available for selection via: * 111 # To check your own telefonnumber: * 129 # To check and setup your own mailbox: *123 (it is all spanish and I gave up on this!) It can be extremly useful to have 1 SIM/Chip for telephoning and 1 for Internet (top up only the abo-amount) to controll the costs easier, because if the abo runs out you will be charged 0,01 US per 1kb!, without notice and the saldo on our telefon simply disappears. We had sometimes troubles to topup, during the process some dollars disappeared and we still do not know why. We now refuse some promotions e.g. free data, because afterwards some saldo was missing too. It is much easier than in the US to get a simcard and topup the saldo, but there are some weird things going on. I found this Link, where you can see the codes and the datavolume aswell (2014-04-23): http://celularesdepanama.com/data-digicel-panama-prepago/ (After running out of the volume I was not able to get a new plan and it was blocked until the "booked" duration => I got a new SIM-Card/Chip ...) Settings for Dialup with an smartphone come automatically, so you can use it as a hotspot. Settings for Dialup with an internet-stick (unlocked Huawei): * 99 # web.digicelpanama.com User: blank PW: blank IP My normal Phone Samsung E-200 got an configurationsinfo from Digicel automatically after I inserted the SIM-Card (in our Samsung-Galaxy/Android I had to type in the infos manually): Profilname: Digicel APN: web.digicelpanama.com Login-ID: webuser Password: ****** (do not know now with what to replace the 6* => left it blank => worked) I bought a One-Day-Abo for internet and the purchase worked; then I inserted the SIM in my Huawei-Internetstick, I then typed the profiledata in the Profilmanagement (without an password) and it worked. The saldo from the new SIM was 0,- after 4 Telefoncalls and the One-Day-Abo => We were told it contains 8 US when purchased, I do not think so and saw a sign with 2 US … Uploading the saldo with a scratch card is easy and you get some calls and maybe days of data for free => but you have to check the codes to be inserted for that carefully … (I made bad expieriences with the bonus and just do plain vanilla now). Prices: SIM-Card => 4 US Scratchcards for uploading => 3-5-10-20 US |
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