The drive from Boquete to Bocas del Torro.
We saw the brightest rainbow, both the beginning and end of it. It followed us. That was the only positive part about the road trip. Some of the roads were so steep that we couldn't see the road. A few times, we saw a dog lazily moving to the edge of the road. We had no idea that there was even a dog in the road in the first place since vision was impaired. We crossed old wooden bridges that looked unable to sustain the weight of a car with 6 people. And of course, David sped over them. He also drank way too much water and made us all giggle with his "Peepee stop" songs. The problem was that he chose to take his peep stop in the middle of a mudslide. Our car got stuck on the side of the road and kept sliding away with the tires spinning. A Good Samaritan stopped, pulled out a rope that we tied to an axle, and miraculously saved us while getting his really nice shoes dirty. The trip was downhill from there. The sun went down, the roads got narrow and windy. People appeared out of nowhere at each turn, lazily walking in the road.
And David went faster.
I think that was the only time I ever cried out of fear while in a car. David told Elijah that he should come to the front seat, but little did he know that Elijah was also fearing for his life in the back seat, holding his suitcase in front of his body as a cushion because he was convinced that someone's fatality was imminent. And David went faster.
Miraculously, nobody died.
The next morning, we took a boat to Isla Colon where we ate breakfast on the beach and then went to our new place on the beach. Sybil, the independent child insisted she didn't need to sit near us:
We took a boat tour and saw jumping dolphins, 2 sloths at the edge of an island,
and then saw this voyeristic toucan perched and peeking into the mens' bathroom.
My favorite part of the day was snorkeling. I loved seeing the colors of the plants, and coral, and swimming alongside the brilliant fish. After, we were dropped off at an uninhabited island that had a boardwalk winding through it.
We explored through driftwood beaches with palm trees leaning into the ocean.
Conch shells and wildlife were plentiful and quicksand was hiding at the shore of this private beach.
It was a beautiful island paradise; white sand, blue sea, warm water.
On the way back, we stopped by Manglar Island which was surrounded by huge, orange starfish.
That night we ate pizza on the beach.
After dinner, we took a walk through the town and spotted huge crabs,
bigger than David's feet, hiding among piles of empty coconut shells.
They came out, spied at us sideways, and slowly retreated if we moved too much.
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