Back to Bocas and off we go again

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Back in Bocas

Our return journey was just how we like it, straight forward, no complication.

Well other than John waking up with an incredibly swollen face. For some unexplained reason he had an allergy attack in his sleep, maybe he dreamt of bees.

Our plan was to head off as soon as possible, but things did not go as planned. The propane regulator sprung a leak and drained us of propane before John realized what was happening. So we had to order a new regulator – 2 weeks to arrive, plus refill the propane tanks – 10 days to get them back.

In the meantime we had several delightful walks:

our first walk was along our regular route upon which we has seen very little wildlife. I had just remarked to John that,

“It’s unusual that we haven’t seen much today.”

When he grabbed my arm and said, “Snake!”

Sure enough there was a huge black and yellow snake moving quickly along and up the bank towards the tree.

Grabbing my camera I managed to get a few quick shots of its length, but of course in a picture it doesn’t look very impressive. After slithering up the bank it quickly climbed around and up a tree. It positioned itself looking right out of the limbs at us,

while flicking its tongue in and out. Really it was fascinating to watch. A lovely creature, so attractively colored in yellow and black with such glossy scaly skin.

We watched it and it watched us for quite a while, until finally we moved off.

One walk took us along a trail we had never walked before through the jungle and out to the Polo beach trail.

Again, the jungle was wonderful. Once we emerged I was so sweaty that I suggested we take a path to the beach where we stripped off and went for a swim.

The water was just lovely!

In another memorable walk we came upon a confrontation of monkeys.

There were quite a number in the trees having a full out fight, screaming at each other, jumping from branch to skinny branch, chasing each other. Next they jumped from the tree onto the open lane where we were, glared at us kept screaming, and ran off to the trees on the other side.

The Red Frog beach had changed its face again:

Gone were the huge surfing waves crashing up into the tree line. Where all the rocks and tree limbs had been exposed, there was now lovely white sand.

The beach had expanded and was just gorgeous.

We enjoyed a lovely walk with Yvette and her sweet dog Ungla, all the way to the far end of the beach. There we found the beach was covered in seaweed. Ungla also made friends with one of the local strays, they had a grand time chasing each other up and down and around the beach.

On our last walk:

We took Yvette and Ungla to show them our regular route, plus along the zip line trail to the top and down. Again we saw several troops of monkeys, they seemed quite interested in Ungla.

Our regulator arrived, my glasses arrived and the propane bottles were finally back ……. It was time to move along.

Out to anchor:

First in the Red Frog anchorage where John cleaned the bottom. Next off to Saigon Bay where we had easy access to a dock at a grocery store so as to stock up with our essentials.

Also, we could walk to Vet Gloria to get Chico his special diet food for obese cats. Yes, he’s still trying to loose weight.

The next morning we were able to walk into Bocas town and enjoy a wonderful breakfast at JJs.

I adore their breakfast sandwich. It’s also a pleasant walk along the lanes between all the colourful homes and businesses.

The weather was looking great to head off shore towards Shelter Bay, where we planned to have Aeeshah hauled. We think tomorrow we will be underway……..