Bocas del Toros

If I had never been to Caye Caulker in Belize, I would have liked this place. I thought Caulker did it better. Better food, better organized, better tours, better reefs, just better. A nice beach town with some old architecture, Bocas was totally geared to tourism, it even had a small airport with three airlines flying out of it. Expensive, hot, humid, and the food was really overpriced and not very good. I got a $15 room in the center of town, because my only other option was to share a dorm room in a hostel (not an option). After the worst ceviche I've ever had (it was not only overpriced, it was SALTY!) and a weak margarita, I went home in disgust, not hearing anything dance-able on the street. The next morning, I bought my air ticket OFF the island and then went to take a boat and snorkel tour. This was pretty good - we went to two snorkeling spots, saw some dolphins frolicking went to an ocean beach to get battered by the waves some. Being out on the water was great, and the snorkeling in the first location was decent. The second location was cloudy and not much to see. They took us to lunch at this place that was overpriced and the food was barely edible. I over paid for boiled veggies, that were supposed to be in a garlic sauce.
The red frog beach, our final stop on this day tour, was neat, because we walked across the island at a narrow place, and even saw some red frogs. I think the kids drugged them, to try and earn some pennies.