Red Frog Bungalows Isla Bastimentos

... style. The Jaguar, our landlord on the keys, his brother on vocals, Maya the boatman on Bongo drum and Francis with his guitar. A dual language rendition of "happy birthday" then developed into the local tune requiring our much slurred audienced input of " I donno wa de monkey won do". By the end of the song we found out exactly what it was that "de monkey won do" and quite frankly I don't blame him, I'm pretty sure you ...

... not looking on the cushioned chair. ; ) As soon as he hears us approach though, he jumps down and sits and looks up at us like, nope, not me, wasn't me in that chair.

there is a movement here to help the strays, and we hear that things are 190% better than they were, but if you're interested in helping out....check out this site:
http://www.spaypanama.org/inde x_en.html

... snorkeling experiences, and have both experienced places where there's tons of everything all lumped together. This place you had to work a little harder to find the good stuff. Sort of like Panama in general. There's a lot of beauty here, but it's not the type of vacation where it comes to you all in one spot. We've been loving it, and think some of you would too, but just like all inclusive resorts aren't for everyone, neither is Panama.

... and small neon orange frogs. The bat cave was incredible. You could feel them whizzing by your head, but they never touched you. Some of the insects in there were the size of our hands, which "bugged" me as we had to touch the walls in certain areas to make our way. Unfortunately my head lamp broke and Mel's died only after a little while, which meant that we had to turn around. Walking back out through the jagged floor covered in water up to our ...

... the area. It is pretty out, just overcast. It would be nice to see a tropical rain, I would like to discover the frogs and bugs the rain awakens. It was just then that I realized I thought too soon, the clouds opened up and it began to rain lightly. It wasn't very long and the clouds appeared like giant cotton balls that drifted away, the sun re-appeared and the air became very hot and humid. Still no hummingbirds. Upon the sun's return, we ...

... We met another really nice family from Minnesota that was travelling with their 5-year-old Juna. So we kind of merged together for a while and let the kids enjoy some kid time...a well-needed respite from all the adult interaction they had been getting. Then on the second day, we booked a trip with Erwin, a Belgian naturalist who is something of a local expert on the ...

... on january 25th i flew home from san jose and spent a week at home in arlington, mostly avoiding the nasty icy snowy weather outside!! that was definitely a shock since i left before it really got cold at the end of october! it was nice to catch up with my friends and family and eat all my favorite foods (including rice and beans, doused in the secret sauce from crisp and juicy though!) i flew back to costa rica january 31st and met up with chris ...

... of swimming in shoulder deep water, we realized we were being pulled to the left and further out from the beach. Julia was already back at the beach checking on our stuff, not wanting to be too far away form it. After we could no longer touch we were aware that there was definately a strong current and it was pulling Kevin, Joey, and me out quickly. We yelled to Joey to follow us and swim parallel with the shore. Kevin was the first to get footing on a sand bar ...

... so helped us with our first try. We were not sure we would see any dolphins as all along our trip there is always promises of dolphins and whales but it really depends on the season, etc. However the dolphins seem to live in this bay all year round and they love to jump on the waves produced by the tour boats...so the show was magnificent (see video) We then moved on to Islas Zapatilla (flip flop or sandal islands ...