Martha's Hotel San Pedro

... soar out of the water. It was incredible. We ate out at a hole in the wall we had found the night before. $5 for a fish burrito, rice, and beans. And thus began our obsession with fish burritos. This isn´t the last time you´ll be hearing about them, believe you me. We went to triva night, again, and lost miserably, again. Oh well, we learned that the third largest island in the world is Borneo. Or was it Indonesia? I don´t remember. Too many happy hour drinks.

... friends when you have a cooler full of cold beer! The we had to meet at the Raggamuffin Tour office for our 3 day trip the next day. We really know how to make a great first impression. When setting out to travel with a group of 15 stangers on a sailboat for three days it's always good to show up drunk! we hade dinner at Wish Willy's. A funky little place in a guy named Maurice's back yard. The food was killer. And over all loved Caye Caulker!

... Conch Shell. It's right on the beach, which is a nice change. As for noise, we'll have to see if it's any better/worse than Martha's - there's a sports bar right next door and the beach in front of the rooms is a heavily travelled route. Apparently some "undesireables" were thrown out right before I showed up, for inviting strange guys back to the room, doing drugs and creating a huge disturbance to other guests. That tells me they take guests comfort somewhat ...

... free from development (unlike the extremely overdeveloped Caye Caulker). Back on the Caye we enjoyed a seaside meal of fresh lobster, rice and potatoes (all doused in garlic butter). The next day was the highlight of my trip so far. We decided to do a full day snorkelling tour of the local coral reef reserve called Hol Chan. The trip was incredible and by far exceeded my expectations (and my fear of swimming in the ocean). Our ...

... up and swim inbetween them. What a site and what a fantastic feeling. Due to the important depth one can only stay down for approx 8 min but it{s sufficient to get a real feeling of the size and amplitude of the site. To top the incredible views there were about 8 reef sharks (between 2 - 3.5 metres) swimming around all the time. Quite impressive considering it was the first time i{d seen any diving. I did another set of ...

For the next leg of our journey, we were off to Belize. We arranged for a shuttle bus to pick us up at our hotel in Tikal, Guatemala which took us to the Belize border where we got our stamps, walked half a km from one border station to the other, and back onto the same bus. Many hours later we arrived in Belize City where we caught a boat that took us to Caye Caulker. Cayes (pronounced ¨keys¨) is the term Belizians use for ...

... to celebrate. He also pointed out the government vehicles speeding past us on the way to Belmopan, the capital. He said they were incumbent officials rushing to hide their wrongdoings before the new government took over. The new government takes over immediately after an election here. After about 30 minutes we stopped at Amigos, a restaurant/bar on the side of the road - only one for 20 miles, I think - and had a couple of beers (us, not ...

... We did however, dive two nearby sites and got to see lots of really cool stuff including eagle rays, large groupers and huge shoals of other colourful fish. Other than diving we spent the remaining time on the island relaxing, swimming and eating seafood. With the national slogan of ´Go Slow´ being strictly enforced on the island, it seemed like the only thing to do!