Windy Caye Caulker

A real wind came up last night and a little rain that cooled the whole place down.  This was quite good since we had got quite burned on our backs yesterday.  We didn't need the air con last night and woke up to a still but grey day.  We took the opportunity to sleep in a bit and then walked right round the rest of the island, so that we have been everywhere.  We walked past the rich houses with private jetties and saw how the other half lives.  It was a nice walk in the mangroves on the beach with pandanas trees that reminded me of Vila and mum's Gauguin paintings

The airport is a simple single strip for small planes to land and you have to watch your head at the end of the runway

The international airport terminal was quite quaint

We wandered into the poorer workers' town and spotted this sweet animal family scene

I have never seen a chick riding on its mum's back before!

I think we have done Caye Caulker now and really feel that there is not a lot to keep you for more than a couple of days here - snorkelling good.

I think you could get more for your money if you stayed in Guatemala and from Puerto Barrios caught a boat out to the beaches of punto de Manabique- but on the other hand, this is a good hopping off point on our way back to Mexico.  Some people tonight told us the rest of Belize is more friendly than here where really there are too many tourists now and most come in for no more than a week of sunshine.

We leave here at 6.15 tomorrow morning on the fast ferry from Caye Caulker to Chetumal on the Mexican border.  From there we have to catch the ADO bus up the coast for about 250 miles to Tullum on the coast.  We have 2 nights here before we fly back from Cancun.  John and I will do some final ruin visiting and Moira and Arthur are doing a Mexican cooking course- I am taking Matt's advice and looking for a licuado de guayana which is a soursop and looks very much like an elongated custard Apple which in Spanish is called chirimoya.

It is sad to see the holiday coming to a close....