Hotel Sunbreeze San Pedro

... from the day before, all the walking I'd done up and down the beach, and the bike riding in the morning left me pretty tired. I ended up in bed by 9:30pm and asleep before 10. But, I'm awake every morning by about 6:30am, so the early nights don't bother me too much... I more than make up for it in the mornings. Monday was another rainy day. The sun was already covered by the time I looked outside to see what ...

... the $40US (each) to go snorkelling at the reefs. It was a lot of fun, but the coral was really unimpressive. Lots of brown unfortunately. But you know me, I was diving around trying to catch the fish and trying to identify them. The seafood was excellent! We went to a beach bbq and the had delicious lobster! Rikki even tried it and he´s coming around. He´ll be a seafood eater by the time I´m done ...

... it truely is paradise. Don't get me wrong, everyone is super nice and friendly, it's just a few of the locals don't have boundaries. While there I did two snorkeling trips while Bryan dived, one through Seahawk Sailing Tours, which was AWESOME. We went to three places, I saw tons of Stingrays (and held one), Baracudas, Nurse Sharks, Dolphins, a Puffer, an Octopus, a Moray (sp?) Eel ...

... KY (about 1 hr away from Nashville), we had a good deal to talk about on the way. Our first dive was at St. George's Caye. The visibility was low there and we didn't see much in the way of reef life. The coral was good, but we didn't see the colors there very well. The crew decided that we should go north to Long Caye (just south of Caye Caulker) for our 2nd dive. It was a great decision. Visibility was much better there and we ...

... full day) on the island I spent working on my tan (the backpacking life is hard after all) on a pier, as there are no real beaches on the Caye (they where washed away by a hurricane, which also split the island in two). The next morning it was time to move on again, so I caught a boat back to the mainland and then a bus north to Mexico.

... Pedro Town. We didn't make it quite that far. The road is atrocious. Not a trip the average tourist wants to attempt more than once. Those resorts all have water taxi service to get to town and I would recommend that! But anyway, we first stopped at Coco Loco Bar. We had seen it advertised for sale for $149,900 and wanted to check it out. It was a very cool location - attached to a condo complex. Right on the ...

... bikes and rode them around. Nate was unsuccessful in finding Jesus that day. We all just took it easy until the sun went down. I had wanted to go on the suset sailing tour, but there wasn't enough people to go so it never happened. Evan and I ended up doing Capoeira on the beach and I re-pulled my hamstring. But it was still pretty fun doing brazilian capoeira on a white sand beach. Later in the evening, Colby, Evan, Jared, and I rented ...

... to our hotel, where they have the good news: We do not have our ocean view (ok) We have twin beds for the night (almost ok) We can change tomorrow to ocean view but still twin beds: NOT ok What do you do? The next best is twice the price. We would like to stay a couple of more days but not if we sleep at the other side of the room. Wait and see, we go diving tomorrow. The city is cute, the transport is ... golf carts for tourists or locals.

... come back to San Pedro. Later on that evening we went to Jaguar's Temple (Bayo is my all time favorite bartender) and then to Fido's (Shaggy is the man). I told the guys that they needed a female bartender, as I hadn't seen one once - in either Guatemala or Belize. They couldn't have agreed more and behind the bar I went. It was a blast. After the bar closed, we all hung out together and talked about nothing in particular. It was perfect.