San Pedrano Hotel San Pedro

After such an inspiring experience caving in Actun Tunichil Muknal I slept like a baby, and was very much looking forward to heading to Caye Caulker for my relaxed beach day. On a rikety bus we drove to Belize City and hopped on a water taxi for an hour. Chelsea and I the sun lovers of the group sat on the back of the boat which zoomed across the sea. I proceeded to get soaked and as the water was getting ...

... beach so you couldn't really complain - least of all about the scenery. At various points along the way people had set up little tables or blankets trying to sell things... men mostly, with carvings, but there was one Guatemalan woman selling small blankets. They all said hello... wanting me to buy something, of course, but they were friendly about it, not pushy, which I really like. I will go back at some point to check them and some of the others in the Central ...

... Blue Hole' which took a couple of hours to reach. There were around 25 people on the boat all diving except for Chris and one other girl. The dive masters gave us a briefing and told us that we'd be diving down to 40 meters which gave me a bit of a shock. After all the prep we did for my 30 meter dive and the stories of nitrogen narcosis I was a little nervous about going down to 40mtrs! It was all good though - no craziness. The Blue Hole is a ...

on Saturday our (expensive) week languishing in the air conditioning of the resort was over and we had to head back to basics. we've decided to go with Brandon and Larry (father and son who were at Costa Maya as well) over to Caye Caulker for a few days. but first, book hunting and ice cream in san Pedro. the night before, Shane had finished reading angels and demons by Dan brown - so we went looking for the Da Vinci ...

... we hoped for. The island is about 2 miles long and has a barrier reef surrounding it. We take off on our snorkeling tour in the morning. So as for the rest of the week, there has been lots of hammocks, reading, drinking the local 1 barrel rum and swimming at the "split" which is a broken wall at the end of the island that for some reason everyone lays out on :) The people here are on island time (plus or minus a ...

Belize Greetings from the sunny beaches of Belize. I crossed the Belize border in a minibus that carried me to Belize City. I was planning on spending the night there, but the rest of the passengers convinced me that Caye Caulker was the place to go, and by that afternoon I found my self on the ¨Quiet Caye where the backpackers go.¨ The boat ride out was 30 minutes and cost $7.50. Caye Caulker Is indeed a restful place, with days spent doing water sports or ...

... down the beach where the polite painter slopped us. Frank was slightly amused, but insisted we go back to the hotel to wash up before we continued. But after we did get cleaned up, we were barely 50 feet from the hotel when we walked right into an ambush. Frank stealthily snuck away, while I surrendered to another faceful of paint from an assortment of youthful painters. This time we continued on to Ramon's for a drink, attracting a few stares ...

... stowage debacle: 5) so we could head off for the next destination, the Hol Chan Reserve. This wasn't a very long ride at all, compared to the first leg. Back into the water at Hol Chan (Bag stowage debacle: 6), we had a slightly less structured swim, but we still had to keep Rene in our field of vision at all times. We saw more moray eels, some of the huge conch shells, tons of coral (some dead), and more rays. I just could not help but think of Steve Irwin whenever I would see one ...

... We leave much too late, of course. We sail for 2,5 hours to the Great Bleu Hole http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/gre atbluehole.html Have a look at the pictures and the science, if you want to know why that 'hole' is there. The reality is ASTONISHING. There is a big blue hole in the sea. In fact the sea is blue and the hole is turquoise. Just there in the sea, in the middle of nowhere. Jacques Cousteau put this diving spot on the map in ...

Here we are, after 3 long days of travel, in our first and sadly only location in Belize. We are just too short on time. In fact in exactly two weeks we'll be going to bed early to get up and catch a flight home to Canada. *sniff* it's been good...but all good things must come to an end. I just heard that I am not being accepted to school, so now I don't really have anything to do when I get home...but that's ok! I'll work and save up to ...