Island Life

Well after leaving Tulum, I made an easy crossing over the Mexico/Belize border and made it down to Belize City in the same day. 
I stayed at a nice called the Seaside hotel right on the bay, very friendly lady running the place. Got up early the next morning and taking the advice of the hotel took the Triple J water taxi instead of the instead of the more well know one. A good deal at 22BL for a round trip open ended ticket to Caye Caulker, they just don’t run as often as the taxi association. Found a cheap place to stay at Albert’s on the Caye, and shared a room with a girl I meet in Tulum, 21BL for a room with two beds, though the showers were crap no pressure what so ever. Good thing I have short hair because I think it took Kirstin about 30+ minutes to wash hers. The island is nice not really any beaches but it had a very laid back Caribbean feel. 

I did 2 dive trips with Paradise Down Diving the first day was just out to the reef, I didn’t want to do anything to hard since it’s been awhile since my last dive. In between the dives we went snorkeling in this shallow area with dozens of rays and nurse sharks. There so used to humans that when they hear a boat engine they swim towards you, they were literally swarming all over wanting food. The Divermaster told me that some operations feed the rays and sharks you could easily touch them actually you couldn’t help it because they kept swimming into you. The next day we went out the famous blue hole for a 3 dive trip. The first being a deep dive in the blue hole and the other 2 were some great wall/reef dives in the area. We saw 2 reef sharks and a bunch of grouper in the blue hole and way too many other things to mention over the next 2 dives. We had lunch on half moon Caye, and walked to a Boobie bird nesting area that was on the island. 
The rest of the time on the island I spent lying in a hammock, swimming, and eating wonderful BBQ’d chicken and fish. I left the island on Monday bound for Dangriga on the southern coast.