Closeby is Colonia Santena, a settlement of cattle ranchers from Los Santos province, and the Virgin Grout, of special significance for catholics.

Taking the right road (the left road is the one that leads to Boca del Drago), leaving from Bocas town, you can reach one of the most beatiful beaches of the Archipelago, Bluff Beach, famous because of its golden sand, where marine turtles come to nest. Its waves are also an attraction for surfers.

Talking about forests there are two zones of the island where it is possible to appreciate the flora and fauna of the island: Mimitimbi and Big Baight. There, it is usual to see sloths, monkeys, wild rabbits, snakes, iguanas and a great diversity of birds.

It must, probably, due to the lack of appropriate footpaths that contribute to a easier route of the forests that exist in the different islands.

Inside the Bastimentos island, within the Marine Park, is one of the more valuable primary forests by the diversity of his trees that are loaded of parasite plants, giving him an incomparable beauty.

Other islands share this wealth very little explored forests, standing out Popa and Cayo Agua on all the others, although also exist forests in the Colon island (Mimitimbi and Big Baight), in San Cristóbal and Solarte.

In the fauna of these forests are species threatened like pacas, parrots, green iguanas and diverse types of monkeys like whitefaced, howling, spider and nocturnal.

The only footpath built with tourism in mind is in the Major Zapatilla Key, within the Marine Park, and is called "The Forest behind the reef ". Even though its route is easy and short, it is worth to visit it.

In Bastimentos island it is possible to walk the forest from the community of Quebrada Sal, leaving to Long Beach can be crossed, or vice versa. This footpath is used habitually by the members of that ngobe indigenous community.

In Bahía Honda (Bastimentos island), in Popa # 2 and Cayo Agua communities, can be contracted a villager as a guide to cross the beautiful forests of those islands. It is possible to emphasize that in Popa island it is the only forest where they will be able to observe toucans.

In the near future, the construction of new footpaths beginning in the indian communities, is anticipated to facilitate the visit by tourists.

In all the cases it is recommended to use guides of the neighboring communities to the forest that thinks to cross, to avoid any accident.

Birdwatching is another tourist activity not yet very developed, but that promises to expand very quickly, once created the suitable conditions, as the qualification of specialized guides.

However, the tourist who wishes to practice it can do it by sea, for the observation of sea birds, very abundant, like by land, for the observation of birds in the forests.

The absolute attraction over all the other birds is the Red-billed Tropic Bird (Phaeton aethereus), that nests in the Swan Cay, only known place in the Caribbean.

In that same key, declared Birds Sanctuary, also nests the brown booby (Sula leucogaster etesiaca), whereas other important sea birds like the brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis), the frigate (Fregata magnificens) and diverse gulls and terns, have active presence but without nesting.

In the coasts of mangroves it is possible to observe other birds, in addition to the mentioned ones, specially the sandpipers, diverse herons and egrets, neotropic cormoran (Phalocrocorax o. olivaceus), the kiskadee and king ficher. In the forests it is possible to observe humminbirds, tiles, hawks, doves, parrots, owls, oropendolas, woodpeckers, toucans (Popa island), tanagers and many others.

And the list of birds could not be complete without mentioning the inhabitants of the cities and towns: the great-tailed grackle (Cassidix mexicanus peruvianus)

Historically, the marine turtles have arrived at the coasts of Bocas del Toro, for several centuries.

In spite of to be hunted for many years, the tourism can contribute directly to their salvation, because it has been demonstrated that, by means of the observation at the moment of nesting, the communities can receive income often superior to which would be obtained by means of the sale of their meat or its eggs.

Four types of marine turtles arrive at beaches of the islands to nest: the hawkbill, the logerhead, the leatherback and the green one. This last one makes an important migration during the months of July and August that happens throughout the coast to go to nest to beaches of Tortuguero, Costa Rica, although some of them also do it in Bocas.

The observation of the nesting, during the night, requires diverse well-taken care of and for that reason specialized guides.

One of the bigger enemy, nonsingle for the turtles nesting but also for the small young when being born, is the light. For that reason strictly the use of lights is prohibited when it is going away to observe marine turtles nesting.

The lights, when the turtles come to nest, can do them come back to the sea. Nevertheless, when already they have nested, the existence of lights attracts them and often they take them towards the opposed side to which they must go: the sea, being a mortal trap. The same it happens to the newborn.

The ideal places for observation of turtles in Bocas are Bluff beach, where an activity organized by conservacionist groups exists, or in Long Beach, in the Marine Park, where although there is no usual visitación of tourists is possible to collaborate in the protection of the nests.