Filed under: Belize
Belize and the English language oh how we loved that. Obviously we are both fluent in Spanish?! now but it was good to be understood and understand!
The bus ride from the border was mad, it looked like we were driving past a huge lake, but a guy told us that all the water was from flooding and it was some of the worst rain that they have had in years. So the first stop was Belize city, not much to say, we had to stay there for one night which was fine and the next day we left.
Next stop was Caye Caulker, an island just off Belize. We found a nice little cabin on the beach,it was nice until we went into the bathroom and saw there was a hole about the size of a tennis ball on the floor of the shower, needless to say Will nearly lost his soap a couple of times. The island was nice although it didn’t have a beach which was a shame. We just lounged about for a few days, enjoying the cloudy weather but at least it wasn’t raining so we were very very happy about that. The first night we left for dinner a little late and had to take a torch with us, we were than confronted with about 50 crabs all over the beach, I don’t think I have ever stuck to Will as closely as than so each dinner trip was an adventure….
Our next door neighbours dog just had puppies, they were only about 3 weeks old and continued to run around everywhere, I fell in love with them especially the smallest and I think I have converted Will to actually liking dogs now hurrah!!
The day before we left we did a snorkeling trip that went to the Hol Chan reserve. Right so everything was going smoothly for the first 45 minutes on the boat (a sailing boat by the way) until I felt a bit seasick, the Captain gave me some pills and just before I was about to jump in I threw up, lovely!! I jumped in after though and demanded a life jacket as we were in the middle of the ocean and it was so choppy and I didn’t want to drown Will by holding on to him for my dear life. We were looking at some fish and when I poked my head out of the water Will told me not to freak out but there was a sting ray just under me, about 3 meters under me, well I didn’t freak out but I didn’t move for a good 10 minutes until I couldn’t see it anymore, it was very big! The next stop and I felt worse, the dam sea, it had nothing to do with the sharks and rays in the water. It was mad, the Captain started throwing chum over the boat and about 20 nurse sharks (they didnt look that scary and were only about a meter long but they were sharks) were right next to the boat. Everyone went in and than the Captain shouted at me to show me this huge sting ray that he had in his hands! Craziness! A few people got out as apparently the rays started coming to the surface but Will enjoyed it 
The third stop was pretty cool, Will swam through a small little cave and we saw some bigger fish and cool reef. It was the best snorkeling we have done so far. On the way back they made a lot of rum punch, I stuck to the water just to be on the safe side
And that it is on our Belize travels, all the excitement lasted for a whole 4 days, off to Mexico now.
