A quick flight to Bocas del Toro (after a smooth, swift and pleasantly courteous Air Panama flight from the local Albrook airport) found us in Bocas Town searching for brekkie and a water taxi to Isla Bastimentos. Our top two guidebook-suggested cafes weren’t open, so we stumbled into any old place to get out of the hot sun and refuel.
An anonymous omelet with fresh juice later, we bolted for our refuge at The Firefly, a fab little collection of bungalows on the sea side of Bastimentos. (The Air Bungalow there is heaven, so book it if it’s on offer!) Wandering the town of Old Bank, we dodged chickens and children, overlooked the piles of trash awash in the rocks beneath houses, bought ¢.85 beers, and wondered what Christopher Columbus et al thought about the place when he arrived in 1502.
Diving the waters around the island with SCUBA 6 Eco Diving, we found beautiful corals and reef fish on a bit of a drift dive with good visibility (rather a rarity here, seems like). SCUBA 6 provides a good overview of the marine environment before each person’s first dive, so we paid a little extra attention to what the fish, corals and sponges were doing in their corner of the universe. We dove a wrecked catamaran and had a night dive too!
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