Thatch Caye

Thatch Caye is a paradise island you might know quite well. It's where the gentle sea breeze rocks you back and forth in your hammock while the Caribbean clear blue sea laps gently on the coral white beach and eventually your alarm clock wakes you to ...

... you get from various tropical destinations. Everything is painted bright colours and all the houses are made from wood and sometimes thatch, on stilts. Everyone walks a lot slower than anywhere else I've ever been and they have more smiles. It is also ...

... little known spot where we could swim for the day and off we went. We spent the entire day on this gorgeous little thatch roofed pier, swimming, reading and generally doing a whole lot of sitting. Some local kids were playing there and entertained us with ...

... not do justice for. We ended off our evening with an outstanding seafood dinner of garlic prawns and grilled fish at the "Da Thatch" restaurant located right on the sandy Placencian beach. Not a bad day, I have to say! The next morning we packed up ...

... "big town" for all the neighboring villages. People from all the rural villages - think wooden houses with dirt floors and grass thatch roofs - come to Punta Gorda three times a week for market days and sell produce from their farms, crafts, baked goods, ...

... gracious and helpful here). For about 3.50 US each we hired a gorgeous almost open air Mayan hut. It had a traditional thatch roof and even a hammock swing upstairs(which I-Emma was pretty impressed with!) I think the most impressive thing about that ...

... in crystal clear blue-green water. The islands are pure sand and most of the homes and building are made of twig and thatch although there are a few concrete structures as well.  Once we were settled, Tahsin cleaned the grouper he had caught...to ...

... it's because Ian and Lori were Peace Corps volunteers in Lesotho in the 1990's where they lived in more basic conditions (e.g., thatch hut houses and latrines in the backyard) than we have here. Fortunately for us, Ian and Lori had read through these ...

... posh, and in all cases they seem to be awfully pricey for what you get (a Danish friend spent one night out there in thatch "hut" with a wind-blown sheet for a door and a bare mattress with springs sticking out covered generously with sand for the same ...