Lovin the Coco B's!
20 January 2011 | Coco Bandero's islands, San Blas, Panama
Ralph
After doing some boat chores in the morning we hooked up with Salange to go and do some snorkeling. The first spot we did was nice, but the current was ripping through and you had to kick fairly hard just to stay in one place. We then moved to a new spot that Kevin had not tried yet and it turned out to be fantastic. Lots of nice coral, but most impressive was the number of fish we saw. In a lot of places here it seems like it is fished out. Over at Salardup, we saw hardly any fish. But here there we all kinds. Saw a huge porcupine fish hiding in a hole that you could get right up close to see him - its pretty cool to peer in this hole and see this big eye staring back at you. Saw a Oceanic Trigger fish, a decent size nurse shark and lots of edible fish that way to wary to get close enough to get a shot at. And we saw the usual lobsters and crabs. We ended up with a cero mackerel, one lobster (could have had more) one red crab and 2 stone crabs. We went over to Salange for dinner last night and Mellisa cooked it all up into a curry dish that we had with rice. I made a potato salad and made an attempt to make fudge for dessert using sweetened condensed milk, chocolate and walnuts. The fudge was tasty, but very gooey. The boys loved it!
Probably going to move today. We have not run the watermaker here as we are the last boat in a chain of 12 or more and being downstream from these boats does not seem like a good place to make water. And we are going to have to start getting things ready for our guests coming. Washing the inside of the boat down and doing laundry will take some time. I am so excited that my big brother and Karen's sister are coming to experience the San Blas on our sail boat. We are going to try and show them the time of their lives!