Panama and Mexico

We spent a few days in beautiful town of Puerto Viejo on the Carribean side of Costa Rica, but got a little tired of the stoners trying to weed and coke on every corner, and Bob Marley playing on every radio in town 24/7. So we decided to cross the border into Panama, as we´d heard there was some great snorkelling off some islands called Bocas Del Toro.

We crossed the border, jumped in a little boat and headed up the river. We passed heaps of wooden shcks on the river banks where local families lived, they were extremely isolated and was crazy to see. We came out of te river mouth into the ocean, crossed a massive bay that was full of Dolfins and flying Stingrays and realised that we had quite poissibly stumbled onto one of the best places we´ve visited on our trip! Every day we caught boats out to different islands and snorkelled. Nicko brought a new spear gun and got some great fish. We spent every day out in the water for about 6-7 hours and never got cold once, as the water was about 30 degrees!

We were just about to organise another fishing trip and realised that we had been having such a great time there that the days had flown by, and we needed to get back to San Jose in Costa Rica to get our flight to Mexico!!

We just made it back in time for the flight and headed to Cancun, Mexico.

Man, that place was crazy! It wasn´t even peak season and the strip of nigthclubs and bars that were about 100m from our hotel was pumping all night, every night. We stayed there for 2 nights and partied pretty hard, with just about every club having Bikini contests on, every night of the week! This place would go off over spring break time, thats for sure..

So all partied out, we headed down south to a less touristy town called Playa Del Carmen, which is where I am now. This place is very chilled and has heaps of bars and restaurants right on the beach. Tomorrow we are going to check out the local reefs and hopefully spear some dinner, and the day after we are headed to a place called Xel La and Talum, where there are some old Maya ruins and some excellent snorkelling spots. Should be great, I love Mexico :)