Christmas Adventures: December 23rd

Early on the 23rd we left Cartagena and headed for the Islas de Rosario—a chain of 27 islands, most of them privately owned. We were going to Isla Grande to where I had secured a cabin that I had found on the internet (http://www.hotelkokomo.com/), but judging from the webpage I was more than satisfied.

We arrived to crystalline blue-green waters and a rustic little hut overlooking the inlet. We spent the next four days there mostly in solitude—reading, basking in the sun, swinging in the hammock, swimming, napping, and eating. The food was brilliant. Lobster, butterflied pork with raspberry sauce, and fried fish with coconut rice.

We went to a cock fight in the village on Christmas Eve, we snorkeled the exterior reef on the opposite side of the island, we taught an employee to play rummy and go-fish and we drank rum with the owner. Life was tough on the island.