We have four days here. The first is now, San Igancio, I am sitting drinking a belikin beer surrounded by geckos, there is a massive iguana in the tree in front of me, there is a pond with turtles and it is 27 degrees at 7pm. Lovely. It is an english speaking country, reggae music (or should i say 80s love songs) is all around and looking forward to the caves with mummy remains of the mayans tomorrow. Cool man!
Man what an awesome tour. THe ATM caves (ATM TBA) was brilliant. Walked through three streams about waist deep to get to this large cavern surrounded by jungle. Had to swim through the first part and climb over rocks, walk up waterfalls and tiptoe on the rock edges to get to ancient Mayan scarifice sites. There was broken pottery, skulls and a full skeleton of a girl. It took all day, but it was timeless and fantastic.
But Caye Caulker, what can I say. When you envisage a Carribean island, it is exactly what you think. Rastas everywhere, palm trees, beautiful water, best bar ever (Lazy lizard) located at the Split where you can sit in the water drinking cheap cocktails with reggae band and watching sunset. We did this for two nights. Then we headed to I n I nightclub, where I drank then sweated buckets loads while dancing 'Belizean style' with local rastas then headed to Oceanside nightclub to continue. DId this for two nights aswell.
But the best was the ragamuffin snorkelling tour with captain jerry and lovely ellis. On a sail boat we visited three sites..1) had two manatees just cruising underneath us, 2) was shark and stingray alley where large numbers of nurse sharks and rays (were fed) and we swam around them and touched them, 3) was beautiful area with green turtles, moray eel (slightly scary), hordes of fish. The day then was finished off with serjaves (shrimp salsa) and all you can drink rum punch. Pity I was slightly hungover but the rum punch helped and I could continue on for another night.
The only downside of Caye Caulker, slightly seedy and very drug orientated, we didnt see alot but enough. But we kept an eye out for each other. Other down side, we had to catch a water taxi to Chetamul in Mexico, got 5 minutes to the dock and ran out of fuel. There were 80 people in this taxi, sweating and feeling awful while waiting for another boat to bring fuel. THe Mexican coast guards arrived to look at us horded cattle.
