The following day, we boated out to Little Corn Island, a trip which, on a good day, takes about half an hour. The island is 6 km long and 3 km wide with a population of 600. (Personally I saw about 30) There are no cars, motorbikes, or anything. It's ei
ther a bike, horseback or walk. This place is Paradise...
There are several places to stay and eat here (please look at the end of this article for contact information and specs), although there is no diving equipment to rent. One man, Grant Peeples, the owner of Little Hotel Iguana (4 rooms which sleep 16), is
a North American who moved here from Tallahassee, Florida and has been building his island resort on a high ridge on the other side of the island. There is a continuing reef on the east side of the island measuring 5 km. There are all kinds of fish includ
ing sailfish, king, dolphin, jack, tarpon and yellow tail, and a shallow shipwreck for snorkeling.
This laid back island looks like someplace that time really forgot, although there is plenty of ice on the island provided by the local fish processor on Little Corn Island. Oh, and don't forget to visit Grace's Happy Hut, the only bar on the island. Hav
e a chilled down Victoria (national beer) and exchange stories with the natives. He is where I met "Blanco", you'll understand why they call him that when you see him. He took me up to the light tower for some Panoramic shots of the entire island. The isl
and is completely walkable all the way around, but there are little paths that take you though it. A story I was told at Grace's is of a medium size cruise ship that visits the island about once a 8 times per year and off loads willing passengers to explo
re the island. You can picture this mostly retired group of adventurers roaming around this remote island. I would like to see this someday, I hear it is quite a sight!
The last leg of my trip was to the place where I was raised for three years and visited during my summer vacations from the States - the east coast town of Puerto Cabezas. I took a 45 minute direct flight from Bluefields. The other airline serving the co
ast is called La Costeņa and services the whole Atlantic coast region with Cessna planes. Their schedule is a bit more flexible than the NICA's , and they have the larger market share of the regions traveling public. Puerto Cabezas is a major port for thi
s region and I noted that the town had grown quite a bit in the fifteen years since I las visited here.
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