Panama day20

Panama day 20 Jan 24 2011

Oh, joy. More time in the car! We drove to Las Lahas beach. We went for a swim on the ten mile stretch of yellow sand gorgeousness! There was hardly anyone else around. I assumed that we would have some more chill time in the hammocks by the sea but it was almost dinner time and my dad thought it would be a good idea to get in the car and dive some more in order to find a place to eat. We found a little place with a straw roof. The food was amazing! I had fresh shrimp done in a seasoned tomato sauce and the requisite chilled coca cola. The coke comes in old fashioned glass bottles and unlike in the US it's made with cane sugar.

p.s. swimming can last a very long time when the water is as warm as the air.

Panama day 19

Panama day 19 Jan 23 2011

We left Bocas and got in the car to go back across the country, back to the Atlantic to Las Lahas and stop for the night on the way. Oh how about another couple of hours in the car, kids?! At least this time we would have good beds because we would be staying at Las Olas and Las Lahas Beach Resorts. Las Olas was on a black sand beach and had the most amazing sunset that I have ever seen! In the evening we walked down the beach to find a restaurant. The sunset almost made up for the 2 hour wait for our food.

Panama day 18

Panama day 18 Jan 2011

We went back to Bocas town, but not to stay, just to get on an other boat to go to Red Frog beach on Isla Bastimentos.

At the dock we saw the sailing ship that the German students who went to our Spanish school were travelling on.

When we got to Red Frog beach we saw some little kids who had found some red frogs and kept them in leaves, squeezing them. So yeah, I guess we saw some red frogs. We wanted to set up a place to sun tan and put our stuff but the beach chairs were $5 to rent, so we just but our stuff on the sand under some trees. We swam and the waves came in strange short bursts of power.

At lunch time we walked through the jungle to a restaurant. On the way Dad thought he saw a sloth. I told him that it was just a giant leaf but he and mom would not rest until they knew for certain, so we took a picture with mom´s camera and zoomed in. I was right! hahahaha!

Panama day 17

Panama day 17 Jan 21 2011



Went snorkelling with my Dad, A truly amazing experience. Fish of all sizes swam just out of reach. Sea anemomies shrank away as I swam over them and coral threatend to scrape my belly.

Panama day 16

Panama day 16 Jan 2011

I am really starting to feel like something that lives in the sea. My hair has salt in it from swimming all the time and the salt will not come out in the shower. My scalp has sand that will not come out when I shampoo. I am covered in tropical bug bites and hours in the sun has given me even more of a tan.

Today I went sea kayaking. It was wonderful to see schools of tiny fish jump out of the water, look down and see coral. As I came back in I felt more wild then ever with the salty wind whipping through my hair.

Panama day 15

Panama day 15 Jan 19 2011

Left Bocas town and went to the island where we would be spending the next four days.

This could just be my dream home. The house has a wrap around screened in porch with 2 hammocks. The house is nestled in the tropical trees at the edge of a jungle and overlooks the ocean. Not to mention that the hot water is heated with solar.

Panama day 14

Panama day 14 Jan 18 2011

Before we started on our way to Bocas del Toro we went for a swim. Surprise, surprise! When we were almost at the boat landing we had to drive through a very poor and not so nice town, called Almirante. Everyone was waving at us. My Dad asked a guy for directions to the safe parking lot where needed to park.-The guy was riding a bike and wearing an orange vest. He followed our car to the parking lot at a very fast speed. When we reached the parking lot he waved down a taxi truck. I noticed that he put his bike in the back with our luggage before we piled in. About half way through our ride I heard a thump over my head on the roof. When we got out of the taxi I saw that the guy with the bike was there. I realized that he had been on the roof! After a speeding, over packed boat ride we reached Bocas town and checked in to our hotel.

Bocas is on the Atlantic Ocean or should I say the Carribbean . Earlier that day I was swimming in the Pacific Ocean.

I was not feeling so good so I stayed in the room as the rest of the family went for dinner. They brought me back an amazing seafood soup with clams, squid, conch, fish, scallops, shrimp and lots of other stuff that I couldnt tell what it was.