Hello All: This may be a short post. We had a long day and I’m running out of energy. We left our hotel in San Ignacio this morning and took an hour drive to do a cave tubing trip. It was pretty fun but shorter than I expected. We had to hike for about half an hour carrying our tubes on a path through the woods, then the float trip took about the same amount of time. The river was beautiful! The entrance to the cave had deep blue, super clear water and we dove off a boulder into it. That was probably my favorite part. We floated through a cave with some interesting formations and saw some adorable little bats roosting upside down on the ceiling. I don’t love floating in a tube. I’d rather be on a paddle board. If I were going to do the trip over again, I’d leave the tube behind and just hike and swim the trail. Our guide offers half day and all day trips that include spelunking and swimming in a cenote, which would be awesome. If we’d had an extra day in San Ignatio, I might have done the half day trip.
We ate lunch at the tour place then our driver drove like a crazy person to get us to the water taxi for the 3pm trip. Traffic rules either don’t exist here or are not followed, even by the police. It was nice to make the taxi though, so I won’t complain.
The water taxi ride was hot and long, and we made it to Caye Caulker sweaty and tired. There are no cars here so we got a golf cart taxi to take us to our hotel. Our apartment is really nice, which is good because we may spend a lot of time here. The beaches are covered in sargassum seaweed. It’s thick and smells like crab legs that someone left overnight in the garbage. The whole island smells bad. There definitely won’t be any swimming off the beach. We have some snorkel and diving tours booked and there is a pool so hopefully we will have enough to do.
I found some pictures that other people had posted online of the ATM cave that we did yesterday so I’m going to post those. I think Bill has some pictures of our float trip today.
Traveling with Emily! 