Bocas

From Panama City we took a 10 hour overnight bus to the Bocas del Toro region. Very tired we arrived at a port city at 630 am and got a water taxi to Bocas Town on Isla Colon. We were lucky the first two days to have beautiful sunny weather, then last night a booming thunderstorm moved in and it has been raining all day (hence we are updating the blog). The first day we rented bikes and rode along the coastline to a gorgeous beach with barely any people. We hung up hammocks and swam in the super warm Caribbean ocean until I saw a jellyfish the size of my face. Yesterday we took a water taxi to Isla Bastamientos, a true Caribbean island with no cars and pumping reggae music in the small town. We hiked across the island and emerged from the jungle on a grand yellow sand beach where we watched some locas surfing. For lunch we managed to monkey open a coconut using a rock and a sharp piece of dead coral. Tasty. On the way back we saw a few Montazuma Oropendula birds whose call sounds like rewinding a tape. Super cool. 

Unfortuantely after these pictures Molly's waterproof camera suddenly became unwaterproof in the ocean :`(