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Isla Contadora, Panama Day 4-Survivor, Snorkeling and the Whales

August 4, 2010
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Today we woke to cloudy skies and the hopes of doing a snorkel/whale watching trip with Coral Dreams. Breakfast was nice, down on the Inn’s patio, cooked to order by Elizabeth each morning with choice of omelettes or eggs, toast, fruit and coffee. The open air kitchen also has a refrigerator filled with water, beer and soda which are available to guests for sale on the honor system.

After breakfast we found out from Scott that there was an issue with Coral Dream’s boat and they would not be running their daily 10 am snorkel trip. We got in the truck in search of another option and ended up at Villa Romantica which owns a glass bottomed boat. There was some confusion as to whether or not the boat was available (it had been privately chartered) but the end we wound up with Coral Dreams whose boat was not broken, just stuck on the sand until the tide came back in. We were happy with this, preferring to go out with Guillermo, the owner of Coral Dreams, who is an ex-Argentinian navy diver with over 9000 dives under his belt.

 

During our drives back and forth to town on the main road we passed a construction site on a driveway where there was a teeny-tiny kitten curled in a ball. We stopped to check on it and it was sleeping. We passed it a couple more times that day while walking and it was still alone, but up and awake and crying. It broke my heart and I tried to figure out how we could help it/take it, but there was no way we could do anything. I knew we could not take it home, nor could we even take it back to the …

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