Coiba is extremely beautiful, precisely because almost nobody lives there and it is left untouched.
Chuck - I have been following your writings on the web on Coiba. One of the interesting sites in the camp on the west side of the island. The prison commander told us Noriega's government had been running some sort of a special-forces training facility there. The other curious site was the Rio Amarillo Camp in the southern part of the island, where transvestite prisoners were kept. :)
I visited Coiba in 1990, less than a year after the invasion, when it was still a full-scale penal colony. I was a grad student at UT Austin at the time, and we spent 2-3 weeks happily looking at rocks and doing geologic mapping while prisoners roamed freely around us. These people ranged from guys who were too dangerous to be kept in prisons in Panama City or Colon, to those who were too poor to afford a decent lawyer and therefore were kept there for years before they saw a judge.
I'd like to own a small place with that kind of climate and build a modern farm there with a woman. Green power and green house, cooling system, wind and water turbine. And then live there for the rest of my life. Although I'd like to go civilization every now and then
yeah me too! but I have to say is , way carry so much if it was just a river path?? in my days ,it was just a mold of bread , couple of tuna and sardine cans ,maybe one small machete and matches.. eso es montear! that's what I call expedition!
Coiba rocks the cashba!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Did I spell that right?)
emillax 2 years ago
Coiba is extremely beautiful, precisely because almost nobody lives there and it is left untouched.
Chuck - I have been following your writings on the web on Coiba. One of the interesting sites in the camp on the west side of the island. The prison commander told us Noriega's government had been running some sort of a special-forces training facility there. The other curious site was the Rio Amarillo Camp in the southern part of the island, where transvestite prisoners were kept. :)
rkolarsky 2 years ago
I visited Coiba in 1990, less than a year after the invasion, when it was still a full-scale penal colony. I was a grad student at UT Austin at the time, and we spent 2-3 weeks happily looking at rocks and doing geologic mapping while prisoners roamed freely around us. These people ranged from guys who were too dangerous to be kept in prisons in Panama City or Colon, to those who were too poor to afford a decent lawyer and therefore were kept there for years before they saw a judge.
rkolarsky 2 years ago
I'd like to own a small place with that kind of climate and build a modern farm there with a woman. Green power and green house, cooling system, wind and water turbine. And then live there for the rest of my life. Although I'd like to go civilization every now and then
teemuruskeepaa 3 years ago
yeah me too! but I have to say is , way carry so much if it was just a river path?? in my days ,it was just a mold of bread , couple of tuna and sardine cans ,maybe one small machete and matches.. eso es montear! that's what I call expedition!
Revelde20 3 years ago
Awesome...I was born and raised in Panama and never visited Coiba. Thank you for the video
NYCBullish 4 years ago