Boca Chica turns out to be a bit of a one horse town, make that a one donkey town. Surrounded by a few nice restaurants, hotels and some plush private homes scattered around. In the afternoon we dinghied into ‘town’ where there was no real dinghy dock. We tied up to the fishing dock as best we could and took a look around. Being before 3pm the main shop was closed. We found a small kiosk open and bought sodas to cool us down. Heading back we found a bar selling beers for 50c a bottle so we quaffed one each before heading back to the store by the fuel station which was now open. There was little there so all we went back to the boat with was a couple of loaves of bread.
Back on the boat we did a little more internetting, the main goal was to understand the situation with yellow fever vaccinations and Costa Rica. They have issues with people coming from Colombia and the online official information doesn’t make it clear how long you need to be away from a country before it doesn’t matter. Looking at the medical information the disease manifests within 3-5 days so on that basis we should be ok. John has his card but we don’t have proof so hopefully the official position is in line with the medical facts.
Later in the afternoon the open internet connection had a password put on. Perhaps our uploading and downloading activities had been noticed and this was the response. This helped us make up our mind to reach Golfito in Panama before the end of the week.
We spent the evening in the Boca Grande hostel/hotel restaurant. It’s a pretty cool place overlooking the bay. We met up with a young couple, Kevin and Maiga, with whom we got chatting and eventually brought back to the boat to show around and spend some more time together. We ended up on the deck looking at stars as the night sky was pretty clear.
Today we’re out of here. We’ll head to Isla Parida. It’s only about 12nm away from here but it gets us out of the channels and hazards allowing us to leave early tomorrow for Golfito.
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