It used to be that you could simply wade and then swim over to that Caye. The shipwreck is a bit more unnavigable. But apparently now you are now allowed to do that. You can simply take a boat. We are not getting into the water today. That is for tomorrow.

Some of the blue colors promised by New York Times is stating to show up

Our room was not ready. To be fair, we showed up at 9am at the hotel.

Not to dissuaded, we picked up the golf cart that we had reserved after quite some effort in gesticulating and less than honorable Spanish (nobody understands English here) and decide to go all around the island.

This is from the plane a few minutes before we landed. I can already see a few of the seven colors of blue that I was promised!

Admittedly, I am flying Copa Airlines for the first time. Our flight to the island was at 7:23. Got up very early and reached the airport by 5am. The first thing that hit me is this board.

I was stunned to find out that Copa Airlines has 23 flights leaving in 27 minutes. That is quite some frequency.

BTW, the checking in was smooth, the security was a breeze and the seats have really, really good leg space. We were up in the front and for a 50 minute flight, you could lift up your leg with the footrest and all that! Very impressed with the airlines.

Some of you probably know how crazy I am for islands – especially with beautiful blue colors. I was doing some research recently and located this small island called San Andres. You have to know where it is on the map to look for it. It is tiny. But the waters around it looked great.

Next stage was to start looking for how to get there. And what kind of hotels might be there. Was thinking about spending the anniversary day there. At about this time, I came across a New York Times article that proclaimed “You have not seen blue till you have seen San Andres!”. Apparently, you can see seven colors of blue there.

That is all I needed. Quickly bought COPA tickets to get there. It is very small (it cannot hold three runways end to end) and is off the coast of Nicaragua. But for some historical reasons, it actually belongs to Colombia.

Sounds like an adventure alright!