Fruit & Juice Stand
We continue our walk to Belize Diving Services. We know that Camille & her daughter Catherine (the people who caught the fish that we ate last night) will be diving today, it will be nice to see them. I also am excited to get to meet John. He was Linc's dive buddy the last dive. He has moved to the island in the last year and is loving it.
Alison, Catherine, Me, John & Camille hanging out under a huge Palapa before they go diving with 6 others (Lincoln took the photo)
The Dive boat and boarding area
After a bit I say goodbye and head back to the hotel. They are gonna be back around 1pm and I plan on coming back to greet them.
John tells me about his massage therapist, Chriss, and how wonderful he is. I decide that I'm gonna get a massage. I go back to the room and check out the Coco Plum website. The place looks amazing and I chose the 90 minute massage and that I'll make an appointment via email for tomorrow when Linc is diving again.
I hang out in the room and work on my blog. This blog has turned into a job...it takes a lot more time than I expect. That's ok, I'm sitting in front of a window looking at the sea and Coconut Palm trees and the best part is the room is air conditioned AND I'm not at work. Life is good!
The gals come to clean so I take my book and go up on the roof to sit in the hammock. I don't read, I doze off instead. After a bit it starts to rain so I head down to our porch. They aren't done so I lie on the lounger and drift back to sleep until they finish.
The rain comes and goes. I had planned to start walking back to the dive shop (which is at the other end of town) at about 12:45pm....its pouring at that time so I wait. Finally at 1:30pm it lets up enough that I start walking that way. I figured I may run into Lincoln. The dive shop isn't on the main drag so I wonder which of the side streets I should take to go up the two blocks up that I need to, to zig zag over to the Dive shop. I pick one and cross my fingers. I don't see him during my 10 minute walk and get to the dive shop and don't see anyone except Renesha behind the bar. I'm hot so I figure I'll grab a drink before heading back to the hotel. I glance towards the water and see that the boat is just now pulling up. Ahhh, CC time...GO SLOW! Its about 1:45 and they are just getting back. I had perfect timing! YAY!
Lincoln and I sit at the bar and order some yummy tacos and the Shrimp & Bacon Quesadilla - just think how good bacon wrapped shrimp would taste! Alison sits down next to us and I get to know her. She's 25 (looks much younger), just graduated from University in Toronto and is traveling alone. She's taking the Advanced Diver Course here. She's very sweet.
After awhile we walk back to the room to shower. I start working on my blog again and I realize Lincoln is sleeping. I lay down with him, its about 4:15. The next thing I know its 7pm. We get up and we are hungry so we dress and go into town to eat. We walk almost to the Split to a place called "Wish Willy's".
Wish Willy's is restaurant set up in Willy's yard. Its a long table under a cover and is really cool. His food is good. We shared a Jerk Chicken plate. Lincoln had never had Jamaican Jerked anything and now whenever he thinks about it his mouth begins to water. I have a feeling we will be eating there again before we leave! We got two large pieces of Chicken with a huge portion of white rice and the best grilled vegetables I think I've ever had! Linc gets a Belikin (beer) and I get a Sprite. Bill is BZE$28.
I didn't take any photos, I will post some of the place in a future post!
We walk slowly through town, seeing folks we know which is cool. Its amazing that after just one short week we seem to know a lot of people. The shop/restaurant owners and a lot of the locals recognize us and say hi and we stop and chat as we walk --- as well as fellow tourists. We've made friends with a handful of ex-pats - folks who live here now that are from other countries.
We run into one lady, I ask her where she's from. She says Colorado. I say where? She says Lafayette (where I lived for 10 years and still own a townhome). I say OMG...where? She says "Indian Peaks", which is one "block" over from where I lived. SMALL WORLD! She's in a hurry, the restaurant she was at ran out of Tofu (she said they cooked it great) so she offered to go up to the convenience store to get more. So we say goodbye and I figure we'll probably run into her again anyway.
By this time its raining and I want to get back to the room. We spend an hour or so researching places to stay the next time we come here to visit...as there will be a next time. We really like it here. I'd like to come in May, I hear the weather is much nice then (not as hot & humid).
Goodnight Caye Caulker!
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