On January 7, we arrived in Bocas del Toro after a great two night sail from the San Blas Islands. Bocas del Toro is a group of eight major islands located on the Caribbean side of Panama and very close to the Costa Rican boarder. Christopher Columbus discovered this area on his last trip to the Americas and liked it so much that he named three areas after himself, Admiral Bay, Isla Cristobol, and Isla Colon. The banana industry came to this area in the 1800's and still today over 80% of Panama's exports are bananas. The population is a mix of "creoles" and the indigenous Indians called Guaymi. We visited here for 6 weeks in 2010 and decided to spend some more time. Now it's April and we're still here, which means there's awesome surf. And lots of other fun too!