Caye Caulker

We took a flight from San Jose to Belize City, and somehow we managed to accidentally end up with first class seats! We felt so out of place sitting there in our walking boots and shorts, people kept walking past us into the econmomy section (which we now call the commoners section) giving us puzzled looks. When the stewardess came over to us I was so ready to brandish my ticket because I was convinced she was going to ask us to move - but she just wanted to offer us free drinks! Anyway, enough about our first class experience...



Got to the airport and met Jenny about half an hour later. Took a water taxi straight out to an island called Caye Caulker, which is a very tiny, very sweet little caribbean island surrounded by a beautiful barrier reef. On our first afternoon we didn´t do too much other than organising our snorkelling trip for the next day. We opted for a full day on a sailboat stopping at three different sites to snorkel. We hired an underwater digital camera but sadly it wasn´t working properly so no photos! The trip was amazing though. We swam with manta rays, stingrays, nurse sharks, reef sharks, moray eels, barracudas, and lots of fish from Finding Nemo! The best bits though were the manatees and the turtles! Both so cool to see them swimming about in the wild. We saw them so close up too, which was really lucky. On the boat trip back we sat out on the deck and drank (slightly weird) rum punch, and listened to reggae whilst dolphin spotting. All in all a pretty cool day!



Had one more day to relax here (see hammock photos!)whilst Jen got over her sunburn from the day before, before heading to Guatemala via a stop in the Belize Jungle near San Ignacio. Stayed in a very lovely little eco-lodge with very cool jungle cabins, complete with composting toilets and rainwater showers!