Hotel Sunbreeze San Pedro

... out the island. It was couldy and rainy all day so we didnt go snorkeling. I rented a lifted golf cart and we went cruising around, that was pretty fun. Grubby went into a barber to get a shave and came out with very little hair. lol We scheduled the blue hole dive the next day. We got up early and met the boat at the dock, it was a good sized boat with about 20 diver on it. We knew the trip out was about 2 and half ...

... as far as Banana Beach, but I got sidetracked at Crazy Canucks. I was assured that it was 5pm somewhere, but I just couldn't bring myself to start drinking quite that early in the day. Really, 10:30am was just a tad too early. Instead, I ran into Nancy and made plans to meet up with her later in the evening to watch her husband's band play at a resort a little further down the beach, Coconuts. I left Canucks around noon ...

... new year in. In the bar we bumped into the two bizarre American girls I'd had a drink with in the hostel in Guatemala! We had a few drinks with them and after midnight we went along to the nightclub which was pretty bad!! <br><br>Thursday Jan 1st: We had a lie in, had a little surf on the internet to plan our next move and booked up the hostel at San Ignacio. We didn't do much else all day - just chilled out, had a swim etc.<br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br>

... months. but we had a good time anyways. there were a few great bars on the island. at the north end (called the split) was the Lazy Lizard bar, complete with picnic tables in the ocean and a diving board to hop in and cool down. the bamboo grill had fantastic food, sand floors and swings to sit on at the bar and half the tables. the other great bar was the I &amp; I Reggae Bar, at the south end of town. the bar ...

hey guys, Senor Wolfe here with another update. We're in Belize now, already preparing to enter Guatemala tomorrow. Surprisingly we are back on schedule, despite the whole passport fiasco. I went back to the consulate in Merida back on the 27th and after about five hours of waiting in lines, taking numbers, and suffering through various other forms of red tape, I was given an emergency passport on the same day. It's only ...

... Caribbean speech patterns can be hard to understand. So now I have to master two more languages. Snorkeling I took a snorkeling excursion to Hol Chan in front of Ambergris Caye. This marine reserve is protected from fishing. It is one of the few places where I have seen boats chum fish for the tourists. As a result the fish are very friendly, as soon as the engine stops they swim around the boat. I saw lots of manta rays, groupers, a sea turtle, and ...

... day, were also on the bus, so we chatted with them on the way down. They were six weeks into traveling Central and South America for a year after selling their house back in Oxford, which I thought sounded like a super plan. Other than a lot of squishing together on the bus seat (remember elementary school field trips?) whenever the bus would get full, the ride down was even less eventful than the ride up. Since it started raining awhile after we passed ...

... agreed not to k.ss, as we usual do ('do not take out your regulator') but a hug confirms it: this is the best ever. Maximum bottom time: 8 minutes and then slowly we start to ascent. Followed by the sharks till 30 meter depth. Then we have the reverse: from a cold bath into a hot Jacuzzi. We need 2 safety stops. At the surface, it is clear: even if we would sail back now: it was worth the effort, the fear and the money. But, we do not sail ...

... where one had scented recently. Now I'm working on educational signs to be posted along the trail, and a booklet on native plants and animals to accompany future hikers. The first sign on the trail will warn them that one of the most common plants along the trail is the Black Poisonwood tree. Yes, it's as nasty as it sounds, as 2 of my companions discovered. Another big event for me was buying a bike. I feel like a real Belizean on it, as it is 2 different colors (the ...