Quick and easy trip across the border from Mexico into Belize. Took a packed local bus down to Belize City to hop on a water taxi out to Caye Caulker.

Caye Caulker was amazing. We only spent four days there because Belize is pretty expensive compared to the other countries surrounding it. The highlight was definitely doing a snorkelling and spearfishing tour out to their barrier reef and marine reserve.

I’ve never dived with Manatees and they are high on my list. On the way out to the reef we came across three of them and so got in the water to float around with these massive weird looking things. They are pretty timid and easily frighten but we got a good half an hour with them just bobbing around doing their own thing. We also swam with a bunch of fish and a moray eel as well as feeding rays and a pack of grey nurse sharks.

After all this snorkeling it was time to get told what we could and couldn’t spear and go off in search of dinner. Megan and I got nothing but some of the others pulled up trumps and brought home fish and lobsters. The group took these to a restaurant to get cooked up and share along with a fair amount of rum punch and beers. Good times.