We’ve come to the end of our time here in Caye Caulker, Belize. Final assessment, four days in the mainland was spot on. Had a good time and got to see a bit of Belize. Ten days on Caye Caulker, that’s hard to say. In general it’s probably too many days. There’s not a lot you can do on your own. You are at the mercy of needing a boat to take you to all the good places. There are a lot of good places though during the high season a person could probably get to do a lot of trips out to the reef and see a lot. During the low season a person may need all those days to get some good ones. In Jamaica during the low season it rained just in the afternoon and we were able to do what the resort had to offer with nap time in the afternoon, here when it rains it rains basically all day. I think from what San Pedro looked like I would prefer Caye Caulker over Ambergris Caye even though there is more tourist shops and things to do over there.
I’m packed (minus what I need in the morning) and ready for our travel day tomorrow. I’m stressing about getting to the airport some. We are going to have to make sure we’re on the 9 o’clock water taxi to get to Belize City and then get a taxi to the airport 30-45 minutes away. We will end up at the airport really early for our flight but the next water taxi wouldn’t get us to Belize City until 11:30 and then we’d be at the airport after the recommended time to be there. I’d rather be early than late.
I think in the future when we have to take multiple modes of transportation to get to the airport I would prefer to cut it down to one by relocating the day before closer to the airport. It would give us more time before the flight and get us to one taxi away from the airport. We had thought of this when we were looking at Panama but that would have involved in county flights, we didn’t give the water taxi as high of a schedule and timing issue. It probably isn’t a big deal overall I just think it would cut down on travel day stress. A little cushion is nice.
I’m glad I got to dive at least once while we were here. I need to see about some local options to get more time and maybe do a buoyancy class. It’s not something that I will get to do a lot of and I wonder if it would be just as good just doing more snorkeling trips. You can see mostly the same stuff. Scuba is cool though. It’s neat to be able to go down to the bottom and see things from a closer angle. Free diving can only get you so far for the average person.
Hopefully everyone is doing well and planning a trip somewhere they haven’t been before! Get out and make some memories! Remember if you ever want to travel with us or meet up at a destination we can try and work something out.
I’m glad I ran into the YouTube guy as I have thought about doing video with our blog as well and a YouTube channel would be a great way to do it. It would probably be something like a 15 minute video of different days during our trip. Probably once or twice a month between our trips. I’m not sure yet but if we do it won’t be until after our next trip, the only videos I have now are from the tour, segments around most of the pictures,snorkeling and my dive. Most of the pictures are frames from the GoPro I have selected.
Be safe, be good or be good at it!
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