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Well after 15 plus hours of travelling, I am in the sauna like village of Placencia. Chatted with a very nice Guatemalan, Luis, works for the Baptist Church in San Inglacio. Had a small spanish lesson and good conversation about his country. Had an fun time bombing around in a taxi with this reggaman Bobbi from NYC and his wife Deana. Good people! Hada run around Placencia looking for keys for their cabana. It's nice to finally slow down but now I am hungry and will test my palate at the tipsy tuna or the pickled parrot. Oh and the hurricanes are going to battle the Oilers. Remind me which one has more Canadians in it. Cheers yo!... read more


Yesterday was another awesome day. Some of the diving outfits on Caye Caulker offer scuba diving for non-certified divers, so we decided to take advantage of it. We signed up for a scuba diving trip with Frenchy's Tours on the Caye for $180BZ ($90US). The first part of the tour was an informal class to familiarize us and the other people with whom we were diving with the equipment we were to use. So we got a crash course in using the tank, the regulators, the hoses, and the mask, among other things. Next we set out for a shallow spot out on the reef to the east of the caye. Here, the water was only about 6-8 feet deep, fairly ideal for one's first scuba experience. One by one, each of us donned all of ... read more
Beer is Important
Bella's
Caye Caulker


So there I was, swimming between two large stalactites hanging down from the roof of an overhang one-hundred and thirty feet below the surface of the sea. There was a small ledge below me at about one-hundred and eighty feet and then nothing else between me and the bottom, another two-hundred and seventy feet below me, except the deep, hazy blue of the Caribbean sea. Luckily, my buoyancy control device (BCD) was working properly and it wasn't too difficult to maintain my max-depth. The dive had been eerily devoid of life to that point, but, as the divemaster indicated it was time to begin our slow ascent to the surface, several large grouper appeared out of the deep, dark blue depths. The grouper, some of them as large as me, were swarming around me and the ... read more
Caye Caulker
The Blue Hole!
Half Moon Caye


After the disappointment of the previous entry of being stuck in Belize City, Caye Caulker was such a contrast, it's unbelievable. Juan and I got up fairly early to catch the first boat-taxi to the island at 8:00. The boat was a fairly rough ride, but we made it to the dock in plenty of time. Our first objective was to try to find out where Juan's friends were staying so we could meet up with them, because Juan had been trying to catch up with them for several days. They had emailed us saying that they were staying in a place called Bella's Guest House, which was in neither of our travel guides, and we asked several people who said they'd never heard of it. That was strange because Caye Caulker is such a small ... read more
Ruins of Tulum
Temple
Oceanfront


Tonight I am stuck in Belize City. I was planning to travel to Caye Caulker today, but I unfortunately arrived too late to catch the boat to the island. The last couple of days have been pretty interesting, though. I arrived in Tulum from Cancun at around 8 PM and checked into Hostel Tulum, which quite a nice establishment with very friendly staff and clean bathrooms with hot water. I met quite a few people there, including a Canadian guy named Juan that has similar plans to mine. I am currently travelling with him. That night was fairly uneventful, Juan, a guy from France, and I went to a taqueria and had some pretty good tacos, then we went to a restaurant to have a few beers. We sat around and BSed for a few hours ... read more


After Tikalling, we momentarily lost the use of some useful parts of are brains, due to some unknown reason (something in the water if you ask me) with some people we hadnĀ“t seen since, ooh lets see, Semuc. Much fun if not completely extravagent evening, and I paid for it in full for both of us when I got very ill the next day. After a few days starving I am much better now. So after a brief visit to Flores; lovely little cobbled street number, on an island in Lake Peten Itza with a very happening hostel where you can meet all the people you just saw at Tikal, anyway we left the next day, to Belize with local minibusses. Not been to America, but would hazard a guess that Belize, or certainly the coastal ... read more


.......and settling in! Hi everyone, hope you are all very well! Well, I left London town last Sunday morn, and flew via Miami to Cancun. Met this 19 y.o. English girl at customs in Miami who was on the same flight. She's heading out to Mexico to do some diving on a nature reserve. She was a bit lost, as this was her first time flying on her own, so I took her under my wing and looked after her! Anyway, American Airlines managed to lose both of our bags in between Miami and Cancun. Muppets! Took 2 days and several irate phonecalls before it finally landed in Caye Caulker! The buses down from Cancun to Belize City were surprisingly fine. They took about 11 hours in all, and there were loads of Brits and Europeans ... read more


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One of the many reasons for this trip was to be somewhere cool and memorable for my birthday. Caye Caulker is certainly fits into this category. The island's motto "Go Slow" is taken very seriously on this beautiful laid back island. It's quite ironic, considering the sign is one of the first things you see when you alight from the incredibly fast speed boat. I had a fantastic day. Lots of birthday wishes on the email from my family and friends which set the day up nicely for the crawl of cocktail happy hours. Much to my growing frustration, Su and Adrian kept dissappearing throughout the day to "make a phone call" or go back to their room as they thought "they left the tap running". Imagine my embarassement, guilt and excitement when they rocked up ... read more
Birthday buggy
Sunset drinks
The Hunter




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