Pacific coast

Since we were definitely going to be on the Caribbean coast at Cartagena, I wanted to also visit the Pacific coast. Colombia is the only country in South America to have both. We flew in a small plane from Medellin into a small town on the coast, Nuqui, which has only dirt/mud streets.

That picture didn’t show it, but the day we arrived, it must have recently rained. As we were following our guide to the boat, we concentrated on not stepping into mud puddles. The only other picture I got of the town was when we were leaving the dock…

… for the one hour boat ride south on the coast to our lodge.

Hopefully, you can enlarge that last picture and see how the jungle comes right down to the coast, and can see the low, flat canoe of the fisherman.

The next picture shows our host meeting us on the beach -

Interestingly, the boat driver turned us around, so we could ride the waves in backwards! (again, be sure and have this blog opened in your browser to see the video) (there is no audio)

Luckily, whenever we were in the boat, there were never waves that big!

After getting settled into our cabin…

… and meeting our roommates…

… we walked down to the beach.

We had all this to ourselves!

I’ll close with the view from our cabin -