This is a great place to dine, drink, snorkel, sunbathe, read and more.

©2007 Scott Doggett, Special to WhozHereNow.com
This is the most popular snorkeling site in the archipelago and a great place to chill out. One could do much worse than spend an afternoon here ogling fish and admiring coral, chowing seafood and sipping rum & Cokes.

Many memories ride on this catamaran. Remember to bring sunscreen.
©2007 Marcell Schmitt, Special to WhozHereNow.com

The catamaran in question is the roomy 42-foot Movida (Spanish for Movement) made by Fountaine Pajots, the world’s No. 1 builder of cruising catamarans. She has crossed the Atlantic three times, attesting to her seaworthiness, and she's a veritable pleasure craft in Bocas as she glides from one bewitching snorkeling site to another.

This lovely beach is at the mouth of Boca del Drago.

©2007 Scott Doggett, Special to WhozHereNow.com

One needn't be an expert in rock materials to know that the sand at Boca del Drago is not world class in the way, say, that the sand at Cancún, Mexico, is, being that Cancún's sand consists of ground-down sea shells that stay cool all the time. But Drago's quartz-based sand is lovely all the same and some of the best Isla Colón has to offer.

Hospital Point Pioneer Medical Center (1899-1920). The hospital, above left, and the manager's house, above right, as they appeared in 1914. The hospital mostly served banana workers and their families.

Hospital Point on the western tip of Isla Solarte was the site of a medical center run by the United Fruit Company of Boston from 1899 until it was razed in 1920 in advance of a new hospital in Almirante, on the mainland. Today, locals know it a submerged 50-foot rock wall that makes for superb underwater exploration.

You have arrived ... at the dock on Cayo Zapatilla #2.
©2007 Scott Doggett, Special to WhozHereNow.com

You’d think with all the wampum the many “Survivor” TV shows rake in, their producers would scour the Earth for perfectly hellish islands on which to shoot episodes. By that we mean a snake-dripping, jaguar-prowling, curse-plagued, leech-crawling, skeleton-riddled, fire-spewing and sea-ringed volcano which, when viewed from space, resembles not so much a land mass as it does a ghastly canker sore. But nooooo!

The Playground harbors many lovely creatures, this cutie included.

©2007 Timo McElderry, Special to WhozHereNow.com
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The Playground is a circular reef in Sand Fly Bay off the east edge of Bocastown. The Playground is noted for its many varieties of soft corals and for sea turtles that frequent the bay.