Isla Solarte

Isla Solarte (called "Cayo Nancy" on some maps) is a long, forested island that is home to scattered Ngöbe families and a handful of foreigners. The most visited part of it is Hospital Point on its western tip, which lies just across the deep channel to the east of Isla Carenero. The ocean around that point is one of the archipelago's most accessible dive sites, appropriate for both scuba and skin diving. It is named for a former hospital that was built to quarantine yellow-fever patients during Bocas del Toro's banana heyday. There are a few homes behind that point, but most of the island is covered with rain forest.