Trip entries from my travels
So, it comes to this, our last full day in Belize then home to reality and that W-word… WORK! LOL, but I am very very grateful for the job and actually look forward to getting back to being a productive member of society. Well, The plan for the day was take a beautiful 2.5 hour drive through the mountains to the north back to Belize City and then hop a water taxi from there to San Pedro on Ambergris Caye for one night at the Alaia hotel there. Like I said.. that was the plan.
Well friends and neighbors, tonight’s entry is a two-fer… two days in one blog entry. Mainly because the last two days have just be chock full of diving diving diving and no real need to put it into two entries. I thought I’d share some of the local flora outside our room which I get to view each morning on the way to and from wherever I’m going. The grounds here are just stunning. But back to the diving…
A day off the water. Always a hard decision for me but in this case it was an amazing one.. at least in retrospect. We all know how much I love the heat and humidity and its about 87 degrees here and 90+ percent humidity. Then we decide that taking a 4 mile hike with 1000 feet in elevation to a waterfall pond sounds like a good idea. To say the least I was a little less than enthusiastic about the prospect. The Mayflower falls in Mayflower Bocawina National Park.
So now that we are settled into Hamanasi Resort, its time for some diving again. This time on the southern end of the barrier reef. Ashley decided she wanted a chill day so I headed out at 7:15 AM to register for my dive, do my paperwork and get gear all set up. After doing so it was time to chill for a bit in the hammocks at the end of the docks and wait for the rest of the crowd to arrive for the boats.
Today started saying goodbye to our new dive friends, and staff and it was surprisingly moving. We just clicked so well with them and enjoyed their company so much it was hard to leave. But leave we did. What lay ahead was a day full of travel from the north, Belize City to the south, Hopkins. Along the way we’d stop for a three hour cave tour at the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM as its known) Cave Tour.
So today was a big day of diving… ok so we’re talking yesterday at this point as I am a day behind but what can you do… The captain got a hold of my drink mug and somehow kept filling it when I wasn’t looking.. which of course meant by the time Ashley and I got done with the Book of Questions for the night, I was too .. yeah… tired… we’ll go with that.. to sit down and write anything. So off to nodingham I went.
Today marks my first three dives under the waters of the Belizean reef system… The barrier reef here is the second largest in the world behind the great barrier reef in Australia. And what a day it was. Full of fish, fun and new friends. The dives themselves while enjoyable were not the most magnificent … Read more
I am sure I am jinxing myself by saying its been smooth sailing to get to Belize but the reality is that not much has been challenging on the trip here.
Quick update… PASSPORT WILL BE RENEWED THURSDAY MORNING!!! I know that a bunch of people helped make this happen for Ashley so if by any chance they are reading this, a HUGE shout out of thank you’s to you! I still will be heading to Belize, Ashley will still be joining me. Now I just … Read more
If I back up three days, I get a text from Ashley saying “I have a BIG problem”. I think, awww it can’t be that bad. Then she tells me her passport had expired and she didn’t notice until then. WOW.. BIG.. PROBLEM. So now we’re in all out fire fighting mode. How can you expedite a passport.