Tortuguero, Costa Rica

After a 5 hour motor canoe ride through a series of interconnecting canals I arrived at Tortuguero. On the Northeast coast of Costa Rica, wedged between the Atlantic's black sand beaches and a series of connecting fresh water canals, Tortugero is the rainiest of rain forests and home to an abundance of wildlife, including nesting turtles on the ocean beaches in the evenings.

Early morning tours of the canals and late night visits to the beaches take up your time here, and I was fortunate enough to see a lot of wildlife, to name a few, snakes, tons of different kinds of monkeys, frogs, turtles, crocodiles, birds, lizards, and fish.


Friendly snake


















Soft black sand beaches

































Look Monkeys...

















The Canals...

Islas Boca Del Toro

Just off the Caribbean coast of Panama is the archipelago of Bocas Del Toro. There are 6 main islands, and tons if tiny uninhabited islands. Each day I would take a different water taxi from my home base island to explore a new island, finding new beaches not in the guide book, eating coconuts for lunch, and swimming and snorkeling in the warm crystal clear turquoise waters. It really was a Caribbean paradise.


Untouched beach....



















































Main street...
















Doing some Yoga...well trying.






















Water Taxi to different beach

Panama City and The Worlds Most Amazing Canal

Truly one of the worlds most amazing engineering marvels, it's hard not to be awestruck watching the massive freighters being raised and lowered on Mira Flores Locks. Cutting right through the continental divide, the canal stretches nearly 80 kilometers from the Pacific to the Atlantic and an incredible 14, 000 ship pass through the canal each year, today's ships are all built with the Canal's dimensions in mind. The average fee per ship is $30,000 dollars, although someone swam through in 1928 and only had to pay .36 cents. Skewing the average a little isn't he