The next day in Caye Caulker was destined to be a Sheldon Day. Most of the other folks on the tour were going snorkeling and I was going to stay around town.
There’s really nothing much to Caye Caulker. Like I said in my earlier post, none of the streets are paved and there are virtually no vehicles on the island except for golf carts and bicycles. I went out to breakfast with some friends and then decided to explore as much as exploration was possible in Caye Caulker. I walked the streets for a couple of hours, stopping in to several shops to see if anything was worth buying (it wasn’t) and stopping off here and there for a drink. Close to our hotel, next to the graveyard that we had to walk through to get to our hotel, was a restaurant at which I stopped for some lunch. It had internet access, so I played on the internet, had some fish and chips and some beer. That was the highlight of the day. I went back to the hotel and wrote a little bit before the others returned from snorkeling.
In the group, somehow I’ve been linked in with the “bad kid” group. (Okay, it’s not “somehow.” I know how.) The rest of the people just sort of look at us with disapproving glances and then we respond by doing pretty much whatever we want. When the group returned, we went out to dinner. Sadly, two of the “bad kid” group were diving the Blue Hole at 5:00 in the morning, so they went straight to bed after dinner. That left two of us to do something I’ve never done before – convenience store hop. There’s really not enough bars to go bar hopping in Caye Caulker, and walking with open containers is not a problem there, so a friend and I went from convenience store to convenience store, buying beer whenever we ran out, and walking the streets of Caye Caulker at night. That lasted until about midnight when the last of the convenience stores closed. The highlight of the walk was watching a crab try to cross the street while, at first, we started gawking at the crab and then a group of tourists joined us. We got back to the hotel about 12:30 when we got shushed by another hotel guest. We ended up going out to the pier and hanging out for an hour or so before going to bed.
The next day, the group was stuck in Caye Caulker until around 4:00 pm and few people really wanted to do any of the water activities so the day was pretty much like the day before except I had people to hang out with. It was hot and we were bored so we just went from restaurant to restaurant and sitting in each one for an hour and a half. The highlight of this day was going back to the restaurant in which I had eaten lunch the day before and ordering a mango colada while we played on the internet. The mango colada was one of the best drinks that I’ve had on the entire trip.
We took a boat ride off of the island and then hopped on a local bus to San Ignacio, going through Belize’s new capital, Belmopan, on the way. By the time we arrived, there was time for little more than dinner as there were plenty of activities planned for the next day – our only full day in San Ignacio – so that was pretty much it.
Sorry there wasn’t any more excitement than that on which to report with respect to Caye Caulker, but excitement didn’t really seem to be on call there. I’ll get into my day – and night – in San Ignacio in the next entry.
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