So Much Food

Something I read over and over, and everyone told me before I came to the San Blas was be sure to provision well before you leave because you can’t buy anything in the islands.

Wrong! You really don’t need to bring anything other than the basics, like spices, long life milk, butter, wine, beer, sodas and water.  Every day we were able to buy fresh fish from the Kunas, they would bring it out to the boat, snapper, mahi mahi, lobster, crab, langoustine, grouper etc, etc… It was all freshly caught, and really, really cheap i.e.: $1. per fish, $5 for crab, $8- $12 for lobster, and that’s not per pound, that’s each!   Also the vegetable boat would arrive a couple of times a week, with almost all the fresh fruit, vegetables and salads you could want. 

Our biggest problem was garbage disposal, the Kunas offer to take it away for $1 a bag, but we didn’t give it to them because all they do is dump it on the islands, so we collected quite a few bags in our chain locker, all organic waste went into the ocean, but its surprising just how much plastic and tin one collects in a couple of weeks, so we had to store it ready to dispose of properly once we reached the mainland.