Recently Linda and I, our friend Alex from Venezuela, and two acquaintances from Santa Cruz took a trip to a wonderful surf/fish trip to a place called Santa Catalina. We also took Grayson our Weimeriener ‘cause he is a handful to leave with a dog sitter.
Santa Catalina is about 200km away but takes about 5 hours to get there on the small roads. It’s a small fishing village near Coiba, an island national park in the province of Veraguas (if you want to look it up), that is a world class surfing destination when conditions are right and great place to game fish for all sorts of varieties. The diving is also some of the best in the county.
Well anyway, we stayed in a surf hotel that Alex used to manage for $19/night. Linda surfed right in front of the hotel and Alex, I and our acquaintance fished with a local guide. We caught one of each kind of fish, a total of 5 and 2 got away. They were are in the 7-15 pound range and fought like their life depended on it. As we trolled along the short it was clear there were not roads, houses or development as far as we could see. But the Panama Coast Guard came by to check us out in a big grey launcha bristling with guns. We put on our life jackets just before they got close enough to see.
The second best part of fishing is eating what you caught and this was really true when we had a local restraint (with Alex’s direction) prepare the tuna and Wahoo as the best I have ever eaten. And that is not just because I caught it. We intend to return to Santa Catalina again soon.
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I have not yet figured out how to leave comments so will see if I can. I do check up though. Would you all consider facebook too. Lots of Aromas people are on it we even have an Aromas site. Miss you all and are glad you are having fun. Lindasue
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