You know those great places you want to share but you also don't want anyone else to know about? Santa Catalina is one of those places. Oh the internal battle of a blogger... But I just can't resist. It is our new favourite place and truely feels like home so I can't help but share it with my friends. Just don't go and buy up all the land and ruin it, ok?
We found Santa Catalina through our Google searches for surf towns and good diving in Panama. SC has both. It sounded like a small fishing town, off the beaten path, with a few restaurants and hotels that had been slowly gaining popularity with surfers and divers over the past few years. And that, is pretty much accurate. SC is a small fishing town, off the beaten path... What you hear is what you get. One store. One Main Street. No banks or ATMs. Not many lights. Even less night life. Not much to do if you are from the city. Some people may feel out of place, bored or antsy in these small, one road, Central American towns. Others, likely surfers and divers like ourselves, will feel right at home.
Reviews and blogs don't often give you a sense of the 'feeling' of a place. Let me see if I can try...
