Bocas Archipelago - Red Frog

We have just returned from 10 days touring in Brio around the Bocas del Toro archipelago. I'll keep this post fairly brief as it is late and we are up very early tomorrow morning to go to Colombia (by plane) for a couple of weeks.

We left Marina Carenero on the morning of Wednesday 27 July for a short (motoring) trip to Isla Bastimentos with the intention of stopping near the old town on the island. Before we realised it, we had passed the anchorage so, with an 'oh well' we continued a little further and anchored outside Red Frog Marina. The marina is named after the beach on the island that has lots of little red frogs on it. We went to the beach but didn't even think to look for the frogs while we were there. We had actually seen some when we visited the chocolate farm on Isla Colon so we weren't thinking about looking for more of them. The beach was very nice to walk along and Ivan went for a bit of a body surf in some pretty poor waves in the beach next door.

On Red Frog Beach not looking for frogs

We had only intended to spend one night in the area, however as we needed to communicate with our travel agent about some incorrect ticketing dates he had sent us, we ended up spending a good part of the next day making use of the free internet in the restaurant up the hill to try and sort out the problem. It was a rainy day anyway so  not much chop for sailing and so we spent a second night at anchor there. It was quite a busy little place with Pangas (water taxis) zipping around us and through the mangroves dropping people off at the island.