Hotel Hipocampo Bocas Town

... silent when we walked through the trees. We grabbed a quick lunch at a small restaurant (whole red snapper with a garlic sauce... amazing) and then caught the bus back to town.

After cleaning up, we tried to hit up Guari Guari for dinner (recommended by Mandy S's brother in Panama City), but it was closed. So, too, was Cafe Om, another recommended Indian restaurant. We ended up at El Refugio, an out-of-the-way ...

... cud* of very decent size swim by me. A highlight. I *lso got * little souvenier in the form of * n*sty bruise on my thigh from climbing b*ck into the bo*t using the l*dder, the l*dder fell *w*y from the bo*t resulting in me thumping *g*inst the sill... ouch. Still, th*t couldnt m*r wh*t h*d been * perfect d*y *nd * current highlight in the trip so f*r. We he*ded b*ck to El Chitre th*t night for some more t*sty grub *nd then h*d *n e*rly night, tot*lly wiped *fter ...

... will come up to you with them in their hands and try to get to to pay 50 cents to see them because the frogs are so rare. This is because a giant resort is being built about 2 kms away from this beach and despite protests from locals, expats and foreign NGOs the resort seems to have bought everyone out in Panamaīs version of the EPA so construction is going on as planned. It was after learning these facts that I came to the conclusion that if Bocas ...

... nose of the board, for which we had to pay. My best guess is that it happened while taking the water taxi as the board bounced around as we skipped across the waves, but regardless it was an additional pain in the ass. Overall, including the board related costs, taxi fees and National Park entrance toll, we ended up spending about a dollar a minute for some pretty lame surfing - not cool at all.

In fact, the only saving grace for our time in Bocas was the ...

... to move back to Thailand, and she will be in March. We were glad we caught her before she left.

After lunch we went further up the hill to Pure Tree Gift Shop. This is the actual shop of some of the natural products we’ve been using since we found them in Casco Viejo. The shop and home of the owner is situated on the top of the hill with views of Wizard Beach below. Wizard Beach has been known to have quite a bit of ...

... tomorrow with a canoe tour and a fun time. It will be exciting to see the sloth in person for the first time, I find them fascinating. We called and have an 8:00 a.m. tour reserved. One of the workers from the construction area is from Nicaragua. His name is Jose, we had conversed before, Susana (the property manager) introduced us to them a couple days ago. He was sitting out by a tree on a break and we gave him a phrase book, "Costa ...

... and fauna of the area. He really knows his stuff when it comes to the poison dart frogs, butterflies, and anything else living aroud here. He's even discovered new frogs around here! So our goal for the day was: -snorkelling -Cacao Plantation -Dolphins -and whatever else we could fit in. What we got was: -Sloths -Cheating wives and machete's -A new 2nd mate -Poison dart frogs ...

... san jose. we then took a bus to puerto viejo, a cool town on the caribbean coast and right when we got there it started raining and didnīt stop until about 5 days later....bummer....i guess it was a crazy freak storm that hit central america, it usually rains here for just a little bit each day but not all day every day downpours!! we still enjoyed ourselves and got in some quality time lounging in hammocks and reading. we also rented bikes and did a ...

... fifteen yards from the beach. Joey was not far behind him, and Kevin helped him up on to the sand bar. I was still swimming along the beach, a little further out and to the left of them. I started to panic a little around this time. Kevin started towards me, trying to reach me. We could hear Joey yelling for help around the time that Kevin grabbed me and pulled to where i could touch. At this time Joey was about twenty yards fruther out than we were. It took us a ...

... when they saw us, but if you move around slowly they dont feel at all threatened and just go around their own business, peeking at you from time to time, or even coming closer to have a better look. The coral around the area was magnificent and we are not sure how many different species of fish we saw, but sufficient to fill quite a few chinese restaurant fish tanks... After about 2 hours of snorkelling, and then a ...