La Coralina Bocas Town

... bismol, fruit loops, fruit juice and ginger ale, we hopped on a humid bus to Sixaola. This was the town located right on the Costa Rican/Panama border. After walking across an old rusty bridge shared by semi-trucks and jumping through several hoops, we got on a bus for Almirante. Here we caught a water taxi to Bocas Del Toro, Isla Colon. Bryan and I got off the boat and walked through town as if we were zombies. Ignoring all locals looking for extra money, we made it to Casa ...

... could see it h*d been * mist*ke, but I felt I should return it quick sm*rts. Al h*s c*lled me * crimin*l ever since. We went b*ck to Lily's for dinner th*t night, t*sty pr*wns *nd spicy chicken wings, *nd w*tched the shen*****ns h*ppening over *t Igu*n*s, liter*lly on the next dock to us. Yes, *nother l*dies night.

The next morning we he*ded to Boquete, with the sun on our f*ces, the se* spr*ying us *nd the wind in our h*ir. Another perfect C*ribbe*n experience.

9th August
Up early to head to Bocas del Toro, Panama! Hoping the weather can get fine for a few days, as its not much fun being on an island when its pouring rain.
Arrive at the border to be told that you cant enter Panama without an onward ticket out. I dont know if Im flying or sailing to Colombia so I didnt have anything, and didnt want to fork out money for a bus ticket I was never going to use. I also had no money, with ...

... ride from the airport to the Lodge and we were greeted by Porferio (another helper around the Lodge), Steve the caretaker of the Lodge while the owners are away, and the local dog named Goose who was like an English sheephound/wire hair pointer. The greeting couldn't have been warmer. As we made our way up to the cabin we spotted our first three toed sloth. It wasn't hard as it was coming down a tree about five feet from us! It would be one of many sloth ...

... and looked at us like, "hello, do you have anything to eat?" We fed them dog biscuits and they loved them. A small dog treat is nothing to them but they seemed to enjoy the company and the curious nature that each possessed. We decided to eat breakfast at Banana Azul. It is a very nice place, the food was good and they have internet. I paid 1,000 colones for a half hour of use and decided to buy 2 hours worth for the duration of ...

As soon as we arrived in Bocas del Toro island we began a frantic search for somewhere that would be showing the Six Nations rugby grandslam decider. We soon learned that it was American spring break as accomodations were quite full and all we could find was American college basketball everywhere so we had to settle for watching it on the internet. Luckily we managed ...

... was about 6 feet underwater, it was insane!! then we finally got to the border and were alerted that apparently due to the flood the border was closed. sweet. so our choices were to stay in a flooded town (not possible), or illegally cross the bridge into panama without getting stamps in our passports and then come back later and try and probably bribe them to give us the stamps. fortunately the border people finally realized that there was this ...

... trying to make sure the family knew what was going on. Yesterday we met up with Mr Lutz and Mickey in Bocas and spent a few hours with them. We told them what happened and went to the investigation office with them. We were all really happy to have the pleasure of meeting Joey. I hope this answers your questions, if there's anything else you want to know don't hesitate to ask. We are all so sorry for your family, and for the loss of Joey. Sincerely, Sydnie and ...

... delicious) and Marcos order the "Carribbean breakfast" thinking it would be some exotic fruit...there was fruit with it (plenty) but it was actually 2 huge pieces of marinated fish (even larger than the dinner the previous night!). Not the normal breakfast but delicious in any case...all for $10. In order to burn some calories away we rented 2 bicycles to be able to get to Bluff Beach which is 9 kms away on the other side of the Island. Sadly we should have ...