First time in the Caribbean

Bocas del Toro is a colourful town of wooden houses on the main island (Isla Colón) of this archipelago. On the opposite side of this island, there is a beach full of starfish, giving the beach its name: 'Starfish beach'. You can literally find, observe, and touch dozens of beautiful prisbee-sized starfish in all colours here.

The second day we made a snorkeling tour: the first stop was in the Dolphin Bay, where we saw these beautiful animals (even if from rather far away), followed by Cayo Crawl and Hospital point (two places for snorkeling) and finally to the Red Frog Beach on Isla Bastimentos. The experience was really good, it’s more or less exactly how we had imagined the Caribbean Islands.

The third day was the best one: we went to Cayo Zapatilla sur, a little isolated islands where the snorkeling was really good (Charlie convinced Tere swim out quite far out to look at all the fish and crawls overcame her fear! A lot of jellyfish over there and the idea to be bitten by a fish…I’m afraid!). (Charlie: This is the first time I've done any proper snorkeling, and I was really really impressed by all the things you can see. I had no idea that you could see so much of the fascinating underwater world by just looking through a mask only 10cm below water surface.

We said goodbye to Panama by visiting 'Wizard Beach' during the day, followed by Thai dinner and a party night in Carenero Island (Aqua Lounge): When the party was coming to an end, people started to jump into the water. Soon everybody did the same, and we swam in the middle of the Caribbean Sea at 2.00 AM!!! With clothes ;-)