Friday, December 28, 2007

Christmas in Panama

Laura and I hopped a flight from Liberia, Costa Rica to Bocas del Toro, Panama for Christmas in the Caribbean. Bocas del Toro is actually a collection of four or five islands just off Panama’s northeast coast. We stayed on the main Island of Colon which has a cool Latin/Caribbean combo vibe- about half of the native Panamanians are latin, brown skinned and the other half are black skinned with Carribean/Jamaican features. Lots of Rastas, lots of surfing, snorkeling and diving, great Christmas decorations, and lots of fun cheap restaurants.

Unfortunately, it poured rain the first five days Laura and I were here. I could still surf but it meant Laura got a little bit of cabin fever at the hotel. She made the decision to head back to Houston after Christmas to enroll in school to get started fulfilling some nursing school prerequisite classes. It is amazing that we have now done almost 5 months of brother/sister traveling together.

It poured rained on Christmas and Laura and I watched the rain dump through the stained glass windows at a small catholic church where we went to a morning service. Since the services was all in Spanish, I found myself watching the rain a lot. The last two days we got sun and toured over all the islands on motorcycles and then on a chartered boat. We got to snorkel on some remote island reefs and had a whole mile long beach break to surf ourselves. With the weather looking better and some good swell coming, I am going to stay on for at least another week.



Map of Bocas- we are in Bocas town on Isla Colon

Laura painted our Carribean Christmas Card

Solitude on the beach

The main street of Bocas town

Little houses with big christmas spirit


Taking the little boat taxis between islands

Javier our boat driver and some of his buds

Bocas waterfront

Laura on our wet motercycle tour

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Howdy from the upper west coast! how the heck are you? just took sadie past your old place, where 5 loud, large men we're still drinking beers @ 630am. reminds me of nate and moo. both of which are gone. shows are going well, making some break throughs around town i can see a light at the end of the tunnel. (and we both know it's not god)