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Bluff Beach
Eight miles or so from Bocastown, on the eastern shore of Isla Colón, Bluff is the loveliest beach on the island. Its wide, golden sand spreads three miles and is flanked by breaking waves on one side and a wall of lush jungle on the other. |
Catamaran Sailing Adventures
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. |
Bluff Breaks
Located off the shore of Bluff Beach are breaks that offer, from November to April, some of the gnarliest, board-snapping waves found off either coast of Panama. |
Boca Del Drago
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
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. |
Cayos Zapatillas
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! |
La Gruta
If you haven’t waded through bat poop in awhile and miss it, you’ll want to check out La Gruta, a 100-meter-long cave near the center of Isla Colón. Dueling statues of the Virgin have been placed at the mouth of “La Gruta,” which is Spanish for “The Cave” (clever, huh?). Flowing past the statues is a small creek that exits the cave and contains more crap from the vampire bats that cling to the cold hole’s ceiling than you could possibly imagine. |
Azucar Surf Retreat
Azucar is a boat-based girls surfing school and retreat conveniently located in Bocas Town. “Boat-based” means direct access to the archipelago’s top surf spots, more time surfing and less time hiking to the shore, and not having to battle the shore break. |
Coral Garden
Off the western shore of Isla Solarte, in water ranging from 12 to 60 feet deep, lies Coral Garden, an appropriate name for the site of some of the healthiest coral in the archipelago. The dive spot is 10 minutes by boat from Bocastown. |
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