good morning so Sombrita and i are just chilling on the beach waiting for everybody else
we're going to be wandering over to la eschreia which is star beach we're really excited to see
this star beach it should be really really good snorkeling over there even right here danny and
Curt have already gone out and they had really nice snorkeling playa estrella is really special
because so many starfish gather here in shallow water making it easy to see a ton of them all
at once we've researched a bit of the starfish beach and so many local blog sites have said
not to touch the starfish so if you plan a trip to bocas just remember that it's awesome to take pics
and videos but don't touch the beautiful animals living here a lot of the locals do not appreciate
the instagram photos with the starfish in your hands we found a really nice campsite here it
has bathrooms and wi-fi and beach views as well as the beach views there's a restaurant close by
dania and i have yet to check it out and sombrita is loving the beach as always
so on our walk to the star beach we decided to take a pit stop at danny's snorkel spot that
he found yesterday oh it was so nice i liked it yeah it's this sunken dock over there that
yesterday was high tire tide so it was completely underwater but it was really beautiful low tide
so now we're gonna do a little walk over here to starfish beach which should have tons of starfish
and curtain snow took a little water taxi over because your knee isn't doing well but this is
looking like a beautiful path here how about this path it's cool it's nice and shady i love that
so the end of the road is back where we camped and there's no road past that point over here
this is uh going over to the starfish beach
but i love that this area just completely undeveloped beautiful beaches compared to
the town this is what we were looking for i love it there is a bus stop so if you don't have a van
you can just take the bus over here and enjoy this beautiful walk along the beach
pristine caribbean
i bet we even wouldn't be able to walk this way if it was
higher tide walking on the beach the whole time but our feet are in the water here we go walking
up to starfish beach just knowing curt have a really good spot laid out for us this is nice
fancy huh this feels like that island in mexico, Isla Holbox, where you got a nice string of places
along the ocean but it feels sleepy still yeah look at that boat out there things wow
i could come from the mainland over there from almirante where we took the ferry oh cool
babies
yeah so there's a lot more development over here than we expected of course you know
over there it's just pure forest but along the beach a string of really nice cute places
one of them was called emily that one with the puppies are my favorite yeah i like that emily
i like that emily a lot but nonetheless we press on in search of curtin snow
i'm a little worried they got lost nah they probably just came all the way to the end
and this place is using a generator to to power which you know there's no electricity over here
there's snow hey we spotted
oh uh is another cute one don de mena she said there's starfish next to that boat
so snow let us know that there's some starfish right over here but let's get set up chilling over
here this spot is looking nice i think they did choose a good spot but this is the starfish beach
estrella playa in spanish star beach but it's really known for these starfish
yeah we'll be chilling here looks like they definitely have some seafood
hey good spot all right let's go check out some starfish
it took me like forever to get through to you misty blue
in any kind of weather i thought you misty blue
it's hard to know but no one comes close
let
on the corner of baker street i met you that first time
and i have kept you in my mind since then hey you know when
nothing compares to us it's like a constant rush you are
and i can focus on nothing but you
it's like we have arrived
you are
let it show let the world know
you are you are
go to territory let it show let the world know
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it show let the world know
all right so we're gonna head back to our campsite for us to take the water taxi is
only three dollars so we're gonna head back with snow and curt such an awesome time here we saw so
many starfish we brought some lunch but it looks like a pretty good place to eat and pass some time
we also had a couple beers so we could patronize the restaurant we sat in front of
and there's my food yeah wow that's nice a boat ride today too huh
loves it
adios
sambrita
i wanted to show you about our new snorkeling gear we have here we got a set of fins now really helps
when you're out there swimming if there's some current it's just really nice having these you
move a lot faster the main upgrade we got here is this masking tube but this mask is pretty nice
for visibility uh similar to what i had but you know just a more professional addition really this
is the big upgrade for us this tube is called a dry snorkel what's special about that is up
here there's this ball that's free to move when a wave comes water lifts that up because it's an
empty ball clogs the breathing tube there so the first time it happens it's kind of freaky because
you can't breathe through it when it happens but what that does for you is you can go underwater
when you come back up you don't have to blow out to breathe out the water that got into your tube
or like when i was at punta uva in the series with curtain snow
there were waves that were coming over you the whole time so every breath out i had to really
cautiously blow that out but this has made it just way better snorkeling to not have to worry
about getting that water in there so i recommend get a dry snorkel if you can
i didn't even know about this until curt showed me his fancy stuff and i
thought it might be interesting to show you guys because of that got the hunting equipment here
so here at the end you keep this little tip on it this is called a hawaiian sling by the way
but you know that's the part that spears your prey so when you're not using it keep this on
but over here at the other end there's this elastic so you hold it like this in your hand
and when you're swimming you know you don't want to tense it up at that point because for my carpal
tunnel that's really rough on my wrist basically you swim around like this when you see something
you're ready to spear you just tense that up and then it's ready to go and when you let go
shoots forward hopefully i can catch something on this soon
come on in graham grammy you have a nice time out there
mr independent do you see anything out there my boy
you're the guy huh got to take a little walk on your own oh yeah
well just having the morning coffee and curt said he might have an ear infection
so we're gonna bust out the vans medical supplies here and
we carry some antibiotics ever since the states so hopefully we can sort that issue
pretty sweet little place here 10 bucks a night
we can use this area as much as we want for free but they have these fancy like beach beds
there they want you to pay 10 bucks to use that so not worth it
we have a bed but you can get some drinks there you can get food over here
and they got wi-fi that reaches to the van yeah we met another local who just gave us some tips
for another island we went to check out called bastimentos sombrita actually started playing
with his dog first then we met him and she's always making some friends what do you think emily
yeah graham oh graham just take it easy on those little birds
he loves eating birds not like live ones just like if you cook some chicken or whatever
graham
so we're heading out of the starfish beach
area playa del drago
oh we got this
thanks so much snow for helping us get out
you'll have fun scuba diving i can't wait to see the footage yeah thank you see you later
for sure good job danny oh i guess i'll put this back up
efficient yep awesome let's go
right so we're heading out to do some scuba diving danny caught us an awesome deal only 65 bucks for
two dives which is less than half as much as the quote before we're leaving this little corner of
paradise but the snorkeling was epic which was what we were hoping the other side's more wavy
and i did catch a uh lobster today with the hawaiian sling so got to at least
you know break the ice on using that thing you're gonna have to show everybody what it tastes
like and looks like and everything yeah we're excited crossing the island crossing the island
that's all built out of plastic
castle inspiration i love it museum of plastic
that's really cool somebody's making good use of the old plastic
wow that was nicey to feed that that hungry mommy doggy she's hungry sombrita however
is a little concerned i know i know she was a nice mama
yeah now that her food's back in the van she's not freaking out anymore she's like there's more
oh she says you want all the love why are you guys giving love to random dogs is that it baby
there's these free water hookups along the road i see a mega spider there by the way
so that can be nice but people on my overlander roads best to boil it anyway if you're gonna
drink it well i'm glad i got you guys on my side emily doesn't appreciate this
because she's a vegan but look at this my first lobster catch and cook plate of food just went
with the butter garlic first catch with my spirit here we go gotta eat it well it was pretty good
you know it wasn't as good as a fish tacos i should aim for fish every time but it was fun
thanks so much for joining us on our first day living the island life in bocas del toro
we'll see you guys next time when we're scuba diving out here
you