Travel Blogs from Tobacco Caye, Belize
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Un-Belize-able (!)
... so that on the return journey hannah took her goggles with her, but this time it was much smoother. You should check out Tobacco Caye on google earth. Its ridiculous. It is much smaller than the inside of any football stadium i've been to, and ...
Tropical paradise on a tiny Island
... , but Casey said we should go anyway and see how it turns out. She was right as usual. After breakfast we got a boatout to Tobacco Caye. The ride with Captain Buck in his small boat was pretty rough and slow going. I think my mother would have puked on ...
UNBELIZABLE!
Managed to actually leave Tulum on Tuesday, spent 4 days in "Caye Caulker" in the Caribbean off the Belize coast. Man, am I glad I made it, was a total shock coming from Mexico though, everything is in English, everyone spoke Creole or Garifuna (carib ...
Rain in Paridise!
... beer (Belkin) and watch the festivities. The next day we caught the first boat over to island called Tobacco Caye. This little Caye a couple miles off the mainland is famous for its emerald blue waters, fantastic snorkeling and little beach huts. ...
Secret Garden
... in the world with a large variety of coral and other marine life. It's like a secret underwater garden. A whole new world! Tobacco Caye was home that second night. An inhabited island with some cabanas, two bars, a restaurant, a curio shop. The ...
Why ATM why you can have ALT?
... take advantage of the day. Stacey has been eager to head to the water. I called Lana of Lana's on the Reef in Tobacco Caye yesterday and confirmed that we could indeed make a water taxi out to the island if we arrived at 5 p.m. to ...
It's a tough life =)
This weekend Nicola Jono Jodie and I zoomed over the Caribbean to a beautiful little 5-acre island off the coast of Dangriga called Tobacco Caye. We stayed in a room on the water's edge right beside the bar/restaurant which sits out over the water. The ...
Desert islands....and sailing trips
... in a huge barricuda, much bigger than mine from the previous day. Dinner waqs gonna be good tonight. When we got to Tobacco Caye we were greeted and introduced to Mayor George who was supposably in charge of the Caye. The island was more inhabited ...
Snorkelling at Laughing Bird Caye
Today we went snorkelling on a national park [ a tiny island] well my family went anyways...I started to walk in the water and the guide was telling me to look out for scorpion fish who like to sting unsuspecting targets...this was as I was very ...
Tobacco Caye, where everybody knows your name
... 3 day overnight sail to Placencia. Hordes a litter of puppies in his shack. - Barbara, formerly of Vancouver now running the Tobacco Caye Lodge, the largest resort on the island. Lives with her boyfriend Rustaman. Son Travis is visiting for a bit. Likes ...
Tobacco Caye
... buses, except, maybe, one for schoolchildren at about 4pm - nobody could agree where it departs from. A couple were waiting for a boat to Tobacco Caye so decided to hop on with them. The book had about one line about it, so let the adventures begin! Not a ...
Blue Hole - Les dents de la mer...
Samedi matin, 5h30 - rendez-vous au centre de plongee pour notre grand dive. Apres 1h de bateau sur une mer extremement agitee (vagues de 4-6m de haut), un bruit bizarre surgit et nous sommes amenes a faire demi tour. L un des 3 moteurs avait une piece ...
High Jinxs on the High Seas
... with a pair of snippers but it was stuck fast. Poor guy had to depart post haste in a speed boat with his girlfriend to Belize city hospital meaning they missed out on the rest of the tour. Bummer. Great story for him though. As Emmet said if had ...
Tobacco Caye
... there sometimes but, it has the best coral formations. As much fun as we had on this island, we decided we wanted to go back to Caye Chalker for the last part of our trip because we want to do a Manatee tour with the famous guide, Chocolate. So, we are ...
Two hectares of tropical paradise- Tobacco Caye
Our next destination was Tobacco Caye, a 2 hectare tropical island accessed by boat from a town called Dangriga. Due to its relatively isolated location, fewer visitors make the hour long boat trip, which has helped protect the reek from too much human ...
The Cayes
I went to the cayes a couple of times. The first trip was with everyone from the field school. We took three days and partied and swam and chilled out on the beach. We even got some snorkeling in. The reefs there are world class. I also ate raw ...
Manatee Tour from Chocolate
... for the manatees and knows more about them than most. He has spent most of his life trying to save the manatees here in Belize. He is very passionate about the manatees and had little tricks to find them and get them to come up close so we could get good ...
Sailing in the Caribbean - Part II
... early afternoon. Everyone staggered off the boat to the main bar on the island in need of beer, a welcome change to rum I suspect. Tobacco Caye is inhabited by about 30 people, made up of five families. There are five hotels and restaurants and two bars. ...
Rumming it, slumming it
The Belizean barrier reef, second in size only to the Great Barrier Reef, runs the 185 kilometer length of the country and in three days and three nights we sailed 108 of them and back again snorkeling, fishing and camping along the way. I enjoyed ...
Tobacco Caye
... an hour) and then went on ourselves another hour and a half to Dandriga on the coast where we got a boat out to Tobacco Cay What a difference! We saw half the country in less than three hours and it is absolutely gorgeous. Where Guatemala had ...
Beautiful Belize
... hammock where we lived most of the time. Can't beat it for $25 US a night! This brings us to Tobacco Caye, the highlight of our Belize trip. You can walk across this tiny island in 3 minutes, its remote and just perfect. Huts on the beach with some ...
Alcatraz Has Nothing On This Place
... Buck suddenly produces a cell phone causing a reaction of general disbelief among the others 210 min - help arrives from Tobacco Caye with fuel, vague westerly pointing of arm intended to solve directional concerns 240 min - heroes arrive back on ...
Sailing Tour of Belize Coast and my Birthday!
... full at all times. After the first bowl I went and laid down on a bean bag and fell asleep until we arrived at Tobacco Caye. This small island has about 60 people that live there. There are conch shells everywhere as there are so many around the island. ...
Belize it or Not... JIGGY!!
... a few jealousy points on the vicarious adventure you're on. Flying into Cancun and taking a night bus down to Belize city had us snorkeling off Caye Caulker by 10am the next morning. After one day of solo adventuring we boarded the Ragga Queen with the ...
The Hipsway
Well, it's definitely been awhile so I'll try to hit all the main points in my stories for a few posts. When I left Belize, I caught a ride on the Catamaran, the Hipsway, owned by an Canadian guy who has turned this into his life. Steve had invited ...
Raggamuffin makes good
First night of the boat tour we pitch tent on the smallest Caye we could find. Seriously, kindergarten sandboxes stock more sand than this thing. The tour guys, one now refers to Lacie as "Lilo" of the Disney movie (I'm just mad I didn't think ...
boat trip
Spent 3 days and 2 nights on a boat....snorkelling, catching fish, eating well, drinking rum punch and hanging out. Had a really good group of people, which made it a fun trip. Weather was a bit chilly at times but it brightened up on the last day. ...
Making sure your seats back and uncomfortable...
... countries already one of which whose official language is Latin American Spanish and the other which was English (Mexico and Belize respectively), I felt that my Spanish was improving at a accelerated pace. Then complacency hit when I crossed the border ...
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