Panama

Panama

Panama is a territory where we are permanently based.

Not to "do Panama", but because this country still offers what has almost disappeared elsewhere: space, wilderness, life, and above all, real freedom of movement.

Here, two oceans face each other. The Caribbean Sea and the Pacific.

BOCAS DEL TORO — CARIBBEAN BASE

Nine islands, fifty-two cays. Caribbean water, mangroves, and a biodiversity that has no equivalent in the region.

Bocas is a territory known to the world — and there is a reason for that. We own land here. We know the place intimately. Steff is there in person. He knows where to go, and when.

Tarpon run from August through April. Large migratory fish — sometimes over seventy kilograms — concentrate where rivers meet the sea. Snook hold tight against structure. Permit and bonefish on the flats. Caribbean spiny lobster on the reef bottom.

For most expeditions, Bocas is where it ends. Not as a stopover. As a deliberate shift.

After the Pacific sessions — the early starts, the offshore runs, the bivouac — Bocas is the decompression. Real beds, air conditioning, jungle setting, white sand beaches. Good restaurants. For those who want it: a nightlife. For others: a hammock, the water, time.

Pixvae is a working base. Bocas is where you breathe again.

A margarita. A good glass shared as the light softens. Bocas has a thousand things beyond the fishing. Steff knows all of them.

PACIFIC COAST

A change of world.

The base sits between Pixvae and Bahia Onda — thirty hectares of land facing Coiba Island, inside the national park. Access here is restricted, the surrounding sea protected. A position that exists in very few places on earth. Erwin has been fishing these waters his entire life. Rosalin runs the camp. The food, the space, the rhythm — it is theirs, not ours. The place is worth the journey on its own.

Roosterfish, yellowfin tuna, black marlin. Wahoo, cubera snapper, dorado. Jacks on casting, sometimes straight from the beach. Spearfishing on deep structure — species that few people know by name.

Hannibal Bank is one of the two or three most renowned areas in the Northern Hemisphere for black marlin. A seamount where currents concentrate all pelagic life. We go when the conditions are right.

Here, we read the sea. We choose our windows. Sometimes, we accept to walk away.

WILDLIFE EVERYWHERE

Caimans in the mangroves. Sea turtles nesting on the beaches. Sloths, howler monkeys, toucans. Poison dart frogs in the undergrowth.

Life is everywhere. Not as scenery. Constantly.

BIVOUAC

Deserted islands. Fire on the ground. Fish grilled an hour after it was caught. Jungle on all sides.

Option on both territories — Pacific islands in the Gulf of Chiriquí, or island camps in the Bocas archipelago. Priced separately, organized on request.