After waking up to a rainy day at Zapatilla Cay which made snorkelling less appealing, we moved Vanish around to Bocas Town where we anchored for a couple of days. Bocas has a population of around 3,500 with many restaurants, hostels, dive shops, and grocery stores and actually reminded us very much of Byron Bay with backpackers from all over the world in the 20 – 30 year old range. We stocked up on bread from the bakery and fresh food from numerous grocery stores and spent the afternoons snorkelling at nearby sites as the weather had cleared again. Bocas Town also has an airport, a hospital and drug stores and infrastructure we haven’t seen for many many weeks. We wanted to do some land based activities as well so we decided to head over to the nearby Red Frog Marina which we’d heard so many good things about. We topped up our diesel at $US4.40 per gallon, a darn side cheaper than the prices in Queensland which are around $7.50 per gallon. In fact, it’s hard to get used to the low prices of everything everywhere we go compared to home. Food, alcohol, fuel, accommodation, activities, taxis, marina berth prices, everything is ½ to 2/3 less. Our berth is perfect as we have a nice breeze, there are virtually no bugs of any kind, the wildlife starts right at the marina office with the above sloth living in a nearby tree and all kinds of birds, lizards and monkeys live in the adjacent jungle. This particular sloth is a 3 toed sloth and I’ve found out that they live 25-30 years, weigh between 4 – 8 kg (8-16 lbs), move at a speed of 0.015mph avg, eat leaves, bugs, petals, defecate once a week on the ground, and give birth to their young in the trees and are around 18 inches long. We’re still hoping to see some monkeys but have seen many red frogs which are found nowhere else in the world but here on Bastimentos Island. They are also known as strawberry poison dart frogs and are tiny at just one inch in length. We’ve hired a golf buggy which we use to explore part of the 1600 acres of property owned by the marina and have visited the beautiful villas, beaches and three low key restaurants in the area. There are no grocery stores or marine services here which is a negative but it seems to be the ideal place to keep a boat for the hurricane season. It’s quite easy to take a panga to town to do any shopping as the marina provides a shuttle a couple of times a week or one can take one’s own dinghy or hail a passing water taxi. From the marina, we can go paddle-boarding and we have access to Red Frog Beach where we can swim, surf and snorkel. So much to do, so little time.