You Better Belize it!
Trip Start
May 11, 2005
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Trip End
Ongoing
Caye Caulker,
Belize
Friday, May 18, 2007
We crossed the Mexican/Belize border at night and since there was no buses running we had to hitch hike the 15 miles into town. We ended up staying at some random guest house for the night and were told that there were other people from Montana staying there. Not thinking much of it we ducked out to check out the town and we we came back there was a Moonlight Basin Ski Patroler sitting in front of the guest house
a) sand streets in Caye Caulker
. Dave and I both regonized him and found out that most of Moonlight Basin ski partol was all headed to Caye Caulker for a wedding! Crazy! Our roomate from our first year in Big sky was there too! Even weirder was that the bride was from Wyoming and a random girl at our hostel was from Wyoming too, when I told the random girl that there were a bunch of peopel from Wyoming there she went to check it out and found a childhood friend of hers! We did not really know the groom but were invited to the reception where the booze was free! This is big deal in the backpacking world!Caye Caulker was a cool little island with sand streets and Carrbiean vibe to it. The only problem was that there was no beaches. We ended up doing an awsome snorkeling tour aboard this Rasifars boat. He caught Conch and fish and showed us how to pull the Conch out of the shell. Then he pulled out the Conch's 8 inch clear penis and ate it raw. He told us it would give us strength. Being a huge fan of the penis (insert joke here) (cow penis soup in Veitnam) I ate one too! It tasted like salty gummi worm...... The coolest part of the trip was swimming with a schoo of sting rays. We motored way off the island but we could still stand in the water. Our Captain feeds the stingrays here so they know the sound of his little boats engine. When we got in the water we were surrounded by huge stingrays that litteraly knocked me off my feet many times. They swam right up to us looking for food
b) more town shots
. We petted them and even held them for pictures. It was awsome, they were like ocean dogs!The snorkeling was pretty sweet but the best part was easily the stingrays. For the rest of the day we just cruised around the turquoise waters drinking rum with the other backpackers and snorkeling when we got hot. He even took us to sea horse perserve that he started. As you can see in the pictures the area the sea horses stay in is very little. The Captian waded out to their little perserve and brought back a jar of them to show us.
After the snorkel trip we hit the bars with the gang fron the boat, Dave, Me and some other backpackers got picked up drunk local on a golf cart. Golf carts are cars of the island. This local guy driving was wasted but since the carts dont go faster than 20 miles an hour we all hopped on. The driver then proceed to swerved all over the little sand roads hitting plants, fences and narrowly missing people. We eventually got pulled over by a bike cop who said that if our driver wanted to drive crazy that he should go to the islands runway!.... Thanking our lucky stars that we were'nt really in trouble our driver then drove to the runway were Dave and I took turns running in front of the cart with our asses out . It was a memorbal night on so many levels! You Better Belize it!
