Photos: Caye Caulker, Belize.
Fresh off the boat.
Kayaking out to the reef. Nice pristine waters are a major plus in my book. These are the places where I don´t mind the ocean. Second longest barrier reef in the world. Although it was nice, still not as good as the Red Sea or the Caribbean Islands when it comes to color and number of colorful species.
The back or Ignacios Cabanas.
My evening spot to hangout.
You can fly to Caye Caulker but it is cheaper and just as fast to take the water taxis. It is more convenient though if you have a connecting flight out of or into Belize City.
Birders paradise.
This guy was a professional model. Every time the sun came out he and his wife hung out on this stump right along the path between the Cabanas. Every tourist who came by had to take a photo of the row of Cabanas and of this guy. I should have charged for photos.
This was the cool post office. First you had to be sniffed by the bomb detecting dog either that or he was just checking for chicken. The papers posted on the wall are the names of people who have mail to be picked up. Quaint.
Pot holed sand roads with no cars. Too many golf carts though. Lazy ass people.
My tortilla chip shop. Excellent. $2B. You can´t eat just one.
Ignacios from the dock.
The Dutch guy who was Tarpon crazy. I caught them in the Keys like bluegills.
Backpacker stove.
This slot limit snook lived under the dock. It let me walk right up to him and I even grabbed his tail (didn´t like that). He left after I told Armando about him and he tried to gaff it.
Pretty, pretty sunsets.
Belizean staple food, stewed chicken and rice and beans. $7B.
Proof I wake up earllllllyyyyy. Sunrise baby. Gotta be nice for me to get up that early.
The cut or split. Basically, during one of the hurricanes, the water broke through the island forming this channel. Now the island is cut into. The good part of it is that a beach has formed here with nice white sand and deep water in the channel. Bad thing is the boats run through here so you have to be careful.
The cut.
The Lazy Lizard rasta boat that you can go out on the reef in.
I ended up kayaking around the island once during some high winds. It was extremely brutal but I got swarmed by some juvenile dolphins which were neat.
More of the cuts sea wall that failed.
Introducing Ruby my island playmate. She got great pleasure from stealing my juice, whimpering until she got half my peanut butter, jam, and banana sandwiches, and totally ruining my peaceful hammock time. I think her mom was happy at first in that she didn´t have to watch Ruby when I was there but then a little miffed when Ruby only wanted to hang out with me. Plus, usually when I returned her she was covered in sand, peanut butter and jam, juice, mud from the beach, and she said “Fuck” a lot. Ruben and others got her started on the “Fucks”, I just sort of reinforced her by telling her “no”. Later on, it became a way of getting my attention so when she came in the morning and saw me she would start yelling “fuck” and running towards me. Other times when I wasn´t paying attention the “fuck”s would fly.
Armando. He didn´t really have any other kids to play with around there so when I came along it was like a gold mine to him. He was deftly afraid of the water, but after a couple of days I got him to go for a swim with me, although wrapped around my neck. Everybody was pretty surprised.
Pretty much my daily activity was playing. Mara a Canadian girl I met there and in my next stop was surprised when I told her I was 43. She thought I was 9. I told her that all asians look young for their age. She didn´t buy it.
More sunrises. Feel lucky I don´t show you 14 of them plus sunsets.
Good old Ignacios. Highly recommended for the get away from it all set. Basic though so if you are coming from the States and this is your first stop, you might consider the nicer resorts first. For me it was three stars.
Belize city port. There was three cruise ships waiting when we got back. I guess they don´t have a deep water port as they were parked way out. Lots and lots of tourists. Luckily though I think they go to San Pedro.
The water taxis that take you out to the outlying cayes. $15B one way or $25B round trip.
Tags: Belize
I am such a huge fan. I have always wanted to travel the world, and through your blog I am free to do so from the comforts of my home.. though i think i would rather be in your posistion. I dont belive you are 43 either, and my boyfriend is from laos so I guess I already know that asains look you… but you look totally young. I would never have guess you were 43. And Beliz is BEAUTIFUL. I guess I am off to enjoy another place. Keep traveling you are keeping alot of people entertained.