Reply #72: Santa Clara beach..Panama [View All]

MILES of the most gorgeous white sand...large rolling waves, clean jungle streams emptying into the ocean via crystal clear rivulets carved into the sand..and jungle meeting the sand:)

Of course that's the image from my childhood.. it was late 50's early 60's and there were NO structures for MILES..except for the thatched bohios where scrawny horses lounged ..tethered to the support poles..

Probably these days there are condos and trash everywhere..

back then the only evidence of mankind, was the occasional footprint of a fisherman..and the net drag lines in the sand..

At one end of the beach was a natural rock formation where we kids would try not to step on the land crabs as we climbed the face of it and then dove into the aquamarine lagoon that was just below..

We could ride a horse at full gallop at the surf line for about 1/2 hour befor ethe sand ran out at the other end of the beach, and the rocks started again..

Funny.. in all the years we went, we never went beyond the roks at the other end.. Parents said that was where the sharks hung out..


some pics...




This is what our house looked back then when we lived there.. No A/c.. no window panes


Ft Kobbe in 04..but Albrook was just like this..