Thursday, May 12, 2011

Caye Caulker!

Our second weekend adventure began bright and early (seems like a common theme) as we strolled to the water taxi to get to the island. Finally made it after the most annoying boat ride filled with obnoxious tourists...(note: we do not consider ourselves tourists anymore, we are straight up Belizean). Got off the boat and were greeted by a rasta with an orange 3 ring binder full of hotels where we could stay, we walked us along the beach to the tropical paradise hotel. A tiny room with 3 beds about an inch apart with little room to move in any direction, thats how we roll.

Next rasta man took us to the snorkeling shop where we geared up, N95 mask fit styles. Our tour guide Salvador took us out, but first we picked up two other people. One older man who looked about 112, tall, gangly, 100 lbs, transparent skin, long toe nails and extremely awkward. He was accompanied by a stronge middle aged fellow who worked for a news station in Belize and we will return to him in our next blog :) Due to the extreme heat/sun shine the older geratric fellow so kindly asked us to apply sunscreen to his back region. Both sulls and kit conveniently looked away into the abyss while poh was stuck taking on this task. During the application process kit whips out her camera to document this endeavor and so kindly states to poh "I think you missed a few spots" ensuring she got the best picture possible. She massaged it into his white back like a PRO!

Moving on to actually snorkeling, it was AMAZING!!! The best stop was at a place called "shark ray alley" where we were snorkeling in shoulder deep water with tons and tons of string rays and nurse sharks swimming around us. Touching our legs with there stingers, we had a bunch of steve irwin moments. We all got to pet the string rays and poh held one like the champion that she is. Side note: our tour guide had to hold us each like babies when we first got into the water due to extreme fear, he may have copped a feel one too many times. Poh liked it...just kidding...but not really (poh is cheesed at this while we are writing this, doan care)

During our next stop while looking at coral gramps panicked in the water, despite the fact that he had multiple life jackets keeping him afloat. He turned to the guide and sulls and proclaimed "I feel disoriented" while flailing his toe nails about in the sea. Salvador had to tow him back to the boat and we thought we may need to bust out our CPR C skills. Finished snorkeling and went back to the hotel where we met a bunch of nice people travelling as well. Had a few drinks on the beach then we all went to dinner, poh had a near death experience when a massive crab crawled across her feet, luckily she made it through this. Next we ventured to a reggae roof top bar with swings for seating. Met an aussie guy who was petrified when he found out sulls was a ging, including hissing and doing the cross sign with his hands.

Overall had a blast and our sunburns started to creep out so we went to bed. Experienced severe fear whilst sleeping due to the rickity wabbily fans going at hyper speed and we thought we were going to become chop suey....we made it.

Woke up on sunday and had a relaxing day on the beach (in the shade) and made our way back to the city to have a family dinner.

THee you
xoxo
BG

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