Rygsækrejsen 2015-2016: Heading to Big Corn Island

Last morning on Little Corn island. We went out for an early morning swim when the sun was rising just before 6 AM. It has been a wonderful week on the island and for some of us in the water. Check out from our hostel was at 9 AM and just when we were about to leave the place a morning shower hit the island and the rain just poured down for 20 minutes - and we stayed inside sheltering from the wind and then rain.

Then we headed for Tranquilo cafe for late breakfast and once the sun came out we split up, some of us heading for a last morning on the beach, others just hanging out having an extra cup of late morning coffee.

There is a water taxi - panga - in the morning and one early in the afternoon and technically we could stay another day and night on Little Corn Island but since we have the early flight in the morning, we wouldn't want to risk it and miss our flight.

Catching the panga in the afternoon was the usual chaos, the first panga filling up quite fast and the other not having arrived. Frederik and Berit got on the first panga with all our bagpacks and Malene, Mikkel and Matilde waited for the next which came 20 minutes later and had to unload before we could board and head for Big Corn Island. On the positive side this meant that the skipper decided to push it and we made it to Big Corn Island in just under 19 minutes.

Once we arrived at the dock there was a bit of chaos and it turned out that Frederik had his passport and phone stolen while on the panga or when gettig of so the skipper was trying to help him get it back. We decided to split up, some of us heading for the hotel with the luggage while the others tried to help locating the stolen phone and passport. Unfortunately no luck there so while they went to police station to get the paperwork done, we and Matilde headed down to the beach, came across a small hotel where they had a few sunset beers. Big Corn Island is also a nice place to stay it turns out.

Once reunited with our friends we had a short recap of how Nicaraguan police stations work on small islands. Slow it turns out but they managed to get the paperwork done meaning that we can all fly back to Managua as planned tomorrow. It is our last night together since we are going to split up in Managua tomorrow with us and Matilde heading back to Granada and then Laguna Apoyo and Frederik and Berit going to Leon so we had our last lobster dinner at a small local restaurant, then back to the hotel and some sleep before getting up at 6 tomorrow morning.

Stolen passport or not - the Corn Islands have been great to us. Like in really, really great.