Red Frog, Police, Chocolate & Parrots

Over the last few days we have been doing some traveling around the area, getting to know the islands, people and boating routes.  We headed over to Red Frog Beach on Isla Bastimentos from our house off of Dolphin Bay in Tierra Oscura, which is about a 35 minute boat ride, since I don’t know my way around the mangrove, rocks and coral yet. The Red Frog public dock. There was a sloth at the entrance of the park.  Last time I was here in January there was a sloth here too, but it obviously infected with a disease called Leishmaniasis, which is transferable to humans.  It is a nasty disease and requires ten days of IM shots of a chemotherapy drug.  I have met many people in the area who have had the disease and still have the scars from it.  Needless to...