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Published: January 13th 2008
Ok, from Panama City we took a bus to San Carlos, an hour and a half north and stayed at Hostel Costazul, which was nice but coompletely desserted. It was also AGAIN ANOTHER holiday (apparently they have a lot here) and there were little things open in the small town and they don´t sell alcohol on holidays so we high tailed it outta there and the next day caught the only bus that woulnd stop for us and went to Santiago and got out there and were offered a ride from a guy in a van to David for cheap with no stops, so against our better judgement we took it and found out he was a nice guy named Joel trying to make a quick buck while delivering pamphlets for Budget car rental and we arrived safely in good time. We spent the day in David drinking multiple cervasas to make up for the previous holiday and stayed at the Purple House Hostel. There we met a 50 year old man from California who had rented a car to drive down the island of Boca Brava the following morning and offered us a ride for some gas money, so we
The Purple House
Fluffy the dog hanging out with Rossjumped on the opportunitty and so did 2 others and the next morning 5 of us packed in the econo car and drove 2 hours down the penninsula of Boca Chica and took a water taxi to Isla Boca Brava where we have been for 3 days. Our room is great, we got our own private bed and bath and our huge screen windows over look a couple of big jungle trees over the ocean that a group of holwer monkeys live in and we got to watch playing for hours. That was great until night fall and the earth shattering death sreams came from their throats beside our heads, it was bone chilling!Yesterday we went on a boat to the other islands snorkeling on white beaches in paradise with 11 other english speaking tourists. Yah english speaking tourists! They have given us many excellent tips! Snorkeling was great the 2nd or 3rd time out, the first trip in the water we were not paying attention and went past the rocks protecting us from the current and I had a little difficulty swimming with no flippers and the camera on my arm in the drift, so I banged into some
Driving to Boca Chica
Cows with long ears and camel humps rocks and cut my foot and swallowed some delicious sea water. After that we figured out the area and had hours of wonderful, calm snorkeling ahead. Ross was addicted to it and hauled my ass off the towel to follow exotic fish! We are now hoping to make our way to the 10 day Flower Festival in Boquette, which can be hiked to from Guadalupe, so we are on our way to try and do that if there are vacancies there, it is well known to be completely booked. Sorry for the delays in updates, we will post as often as we are able! xo
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Your Guide Jordan
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What up Kids! Love the pics. The coldest beer eh? Get used ot it, is seems that everywhere I went offered the coldest beer! AWesome! The picture of the sand seems familiar...lol I love the shirt Ross! Things are good in Revy Ben and I are moving out of our hotel room and into our own lodging. You will have to come and crash for a month or so. Riding lots of pow here. 20 cm in 2 days. Have fun. Miss ya both! Much Love JC