Santa Catalina, Panama

Chasing the sun, we returned to the Pacific Coast.

Monday morning we got up to dive! I didn’t end up diving but I went out on the boat anyway.

After the first dive we stopped on the most beautiful island for a break.

In the afternoon we lazed on the beach over on the other side of the bay.

Little did we know, the ride rose quite dramatically in the evening!

Feeling lazy, we managed to hitch hike the half hour walk back into town with two Americans!

Just in time to see the sun set by the hostel.

Jitteke headed off to the big City the following day, and I spent a couple of days in the surf before following her to Panama City.

San Juan del Sur: surf’s up!

San Juan del Sur is on the Pacific side of Nicaragua so a bit of a hot spot for surfers!

Like I said we arrived just in time for sunset…

The next day having checked out the town we headed to the beach- a long, hard but fun day! Bashed about in the waves quite a bit!

Hester had never surfed before so we decided to take a lesson. Our teacher took some cool photos …

In the evening it was time for Hester’s leaving party!! An 80s themed bar seemed fitting!

The next day we headed back to the beach for a final surf before going our separate ways…Hester to Costa Rica and onwards to the UK, while I took the ferry to Isla de Ometepe.