Caye Caulker (time to swap magaritas for rum and coke!!)

Tom's Hotel

Caye Caulker is a small caribbean island about 33 kms off the coast Belize.  (This area is also the home of the second largest barrier reef in the world).  Our ferry arrived mid afternoon, and we were met by Fred (tall cool caribbean type guy), who managed to balance our bags onto his bike/trolley and headed off to our accommodation.  We first headed up to a narrow dirt road lined with brightly painted housed, palm trees etc, then cut through a small cemetry to the beach, along the beach for another couple of hundred metres to Tom's Hotel.  We were allocated our rooms, some old and some new.  Steve and I had one of the little original wooden cabins, with lots of character (another way of saying need a new paint job).  but no it was fun!!! and very close to eveything.  (actually, anywhere on Caye Caulker is close to everything. It it isn't a big place).

It was time to do some exploring and book into a snorkeling tour for tomorrow.  After finding the local Bank and doing battle with the ATM we headed to Rosa's restaurant to pick out our lobster for the evenings dinner. All the days catch, (fish, lobster etc) is displayed out the front and we all picked out what we would like to have cooked for us that evening.  (a medium size lobster was around $15).

View of sunset from Lazy Lizard

Lazy Lizard

Exploring over, it was time to brush up and don our party gear (well a new pair of shorts, tshirt and dig out the trusty thongs), and head to the local sunset spot.  "The Lazy Lizard".

This bar, is on the end of the island and has the most amazing views of the sun setting over the ocean.  It was time to chill out over some cold beers, and coke and rums at happy hour prices with the tour group and the locals before heading back to Rosa's for our lobster dinner.  Life can be so tough at times!! Tomorrow we are off to do a snorkling tour.  I wonder how I will go!!  As my family knows I am not the best when it comes to snorkelling.