Tierra Bomba Island

This guide to Tierra Bomba Island, at the mouth of Cartagena's bay, follows the fishing families who have worked its mangroves and reefs for generations, descended from enslaved Africans who never left the water for the mainland. You'll hear how children here learn to read a tide before they learn to read a book, how women wade into the mangrove mud at low tide feeling for a small clam called chipichipi, and how snorkelers now drift over reefs the fishermen learned patch by patch. It lingers on what happens after dark, when the bay itself seems to catch fire underfoot.