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Published: June 25th 2007
Shark and Ray Alley
The group in the water playing with the rays. Sorry for the delay here, but using the internet at Caye Caulker costs 5 or 6 dollars US per hour! We'd booked the snorkelling trip for 10:30am, so we found a couple cups of coffee and chilled til about 10am. Armed with sunscreen, bathing suits, flippers, mask, and snorkel, we boarded Carlos's boat. After a short, bumpy 15 minute ride, we slowed down cause Carlos spotted a manatee. We donned our gear and dropped overboard. Although it was pretty deep, the water was crystal clear. Within minutes, we spotted a manatee and on approaching it, found two more. Such awesome creatures! We swam near them for quite a while, watching them frolic a bit and generally drift about. When two of them wnet to the bottom to "sleep", we got back on the boat to head for our next location. Carlos had warned us not to get too close or move too fast since the manatees scare easily. We did get within a few feet of them several times. Our next stop was a pretty cool coral reef, where Carlos pointed out a number of different types of coral and fish. The coral was interesting and the fish were such
J.C. and the Ray
J.C. holding a fairly large ray in his arms. brilliant colors. All in all a very enjoyable experience too. We thought the manatees were the main highlight of the trip, but our next stop was quite something too. We climbed back on board adn after having some delicious fresh fruit, we headed to shark ray alley. We'd expected to see some nurse sharks, but after climbing into the water, without flippers this time, we spent quite a while actually playing with lots of big rays!! Once you get over the surprise and feel of them, it was lots of fun. Manoli was feeling a bit queasy, so she spent most of the time in the boat taking pictures. Check out the pic of me actually holding a ray in my arms! We eventually and reluctantly got back aboard, had our bag of water and headed back in. We arrived back at Caye Caulker about 2pm and decided to try a "fast food" place for lunch. We ordered vegetable fried rice and a backed chicken with dirty rice and potato salad at Chan's Fast Food, and took it back to the beach by our cabana. We'd all agreed to meet at the Lazy Lizard down on the split at 6pm
Chan´'s Fast Food
Chan's Fast Food on Caye Caulker where we got some great food, cheap! to watch the sunset and have drinks together. The split is what was left after a hurricane hit the island a few years ago, wiping out a 100-yard or so strip thru the middle of the island, leaving a channel called the split. Since we'd had a big lunch, we visited the local bakery and bought cinnamon rolls, a coconut-chocolate bar and strawberry pie pasty to eat for dinner. We ate our pastries and watched TV for a while in our room.
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