Blogs from Corn Islands, Caribbean Nicaragua, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean

Last night I went scuba diving on my first night dive. As luck would have it, the plankton was bioluminescent. This means that 50 feet below the surface, when we turned off our underwater lights, we were surrounded by natural lights in the form of glowing plankton. Imagine the brightest starry night you have ever experienced in your life, out in the middle nowhere, with no city lights and no moon at all. The stars were so bright, they all looked like north stars. That is how bright the glowing plankton was. Now imagine that you can touch the stars. You can reach out grab the stars and hold them in your hands. From the ocean bottom all the way to the surface, you are gliding through these beautiful bright stars that you can reach out ... read more

The idyllic palm-fringed Corn Islands are located over 70 kilometres off the eastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. It’s a couple of full days hard yakka to travel overland, or the easier option is to fly in as we did, from Managua with a quick stop in Bluefields. After about five minutes of arriving on Little Corn Island we met one of the islands’ more notorious locals, Ennis (though he is called Dennis by nearly every foreigner he encounters, and has now taken to introducing himself as such). Our first encounter was a pleasant one, as he flashed his golden toothed smile and wooed us with his Caribbean charm. Dave’s jandal/thong had blown out and Dennis arrived on the scene, fished around in some bushes, pulled out a nail and rock and promptly repaired it. We later ... read more

K- There has been a lot of rice in Nicaragua. One day I realized that we had eaten rice with every meal for six days, including breakfast (Gallo Pinto (rice & beans) with eggs, cheese and tortilla is a breakfast staple here). For variety I therefore ordered a dinner with mashed potatoes. They were great – but were accompanied with a side of rice! We remarked on this to our hotel owner in Managua and he told us that he once ordered spaghetti and got a side of rice with it so it seems that our experience is the norm. Fortunately we like rice. I mention food, and the slight repetitive nature of it so far on our trip because our visit to Little Corn, a tiny island (1 mile square) off the East coast of ... read more

The pics: A view of our shower from the front, the path toward town, a house along the path (so many are made of metal), 3 pics of the bay in front of town, the path to Ensuenos along the beach, me & the beach in front of Ensuenos, dinner table for us, Us sitting out front before dinner enjoying our drinks, Us at our dinner table, Vegetables & cheese for course one with our plantain chips & lime beverage! Yum!, Amazing Lasagna, Us with Chef Andrea after dinner. Today we slept until 8am. We slept a very long time, something like 10 hours! I think it's because it's overcast & cloudy & cool. Plus it's still raining pretty hard which makes it difficult to even want to go outside. It feels like the whole world ... read more

Hi All! Apparently Travelblog is updating their site & there are still some kinks to work out. So for now I can't add captions the photos. We're just going to post the blogs anyway. We've put them in order of events during the day. For example, today's photos are of the daddy dog & his baby girl pup playing, our cabana, Felipe working on my necklace, Geoff on a palm tree, us in our cabana, me cracking up at something Geoff said, dinnertime. Geoff woke up before me today! This is the first time since we left home that this has happened I think. Wow. I didn't even wake up when he got out of bed. Amazing. Probably because this bed is so ridiculously comfortable & with the constant cool breeze I sleep so well. This ... read more