Final Day on the Caye

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My location:

17°44.583' N, 88°01.427' W

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17.74306,-88.02379

Things to remember about Caye Caulker:

There are some amazing dives here. Next time I'm traveling with a bigger budget to take advantage of all of them. There is cave diving in the Blue Hole, complete with stalactites. There are also shark and ray dives, plus an alligator dive.

There are no plastic bottles, every bottle is glass and is recycled, except water bottles. I don't know why the water isn't glass as well, uncles it's the portability factors.

Jamaican accents and Rastas everywhere. One of them told me I had 'a very good lobster there,' referring to Eya in what I believe was a compliment.

Lots of people come here for months at a time and turn into semi-permanent residents when they find a chunk of money.

Get a real damned strap for valuables plus some sort of floatation attachment for anything you swim with.

Conch shell art is beautiful. The insides of the shells are bubblegum pink. There are street vendors with earrings, spoons, soap plates, and finger rings made from the shells. The I and I bar, in which many seats are swings hanging from ropes, and which has a three-person loft atop a ladder for patrons, uses a whole conch as a faucet in their sink.

The Rasta fruit vendor wears army boots everywhere as he pushes his cart around town. He sings constantly and rather well. I can't quite decide whether he's singing a real song or making it up as he goes along.

Double check the water taxi schedule or you miss your boat and wait three hours after you check out from your hotel.

Hotel is home, and feels like home. At least, once you've made a huge mess of the place and your underwear are drying on a chord you've strung up there.

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Comments

[Isabel]

Thank you...
for giving me a peek at a part of the world I don't think I'll ever visit. I loved your description of how they are using conch shells, I would love to see that. And yes, Eya is a wonderful, one of a kind lobster!