Some days are better than others

Kim and I started our day with a walk through the Caye Caulker Reserve, where a small trail runs through the undeveloped area. Students from a local school painted signs that were posted along the trail identifying many of the trees and shrubs. We found the trail continued on past the east entrance and ran north up the beach, so we followed it. We were sidetracked for well over an hour, looking at the mangroves and birds. I wondered why they didn't call it a mengrove, since there was more than one, but I guess mangrove sounds more appealing. We saw some large water birds (osprey, heron, and an ibis), and some funky seagull looking creatures with cool black tufts of feathers sticking out from the corner of their eyes to the back of their heads (Kim has just notified me it was a tern).

When we were done, we returned down the beach from whence we came, returning to finish our walkabout the Reserve. I was apparently attacked by a horde of hungry mosquitos, or at least that was Kim's excuse to slap me on the back, the arms, and the gratuitous pop to the head. I think she may have been telling the truth, given the itching bites I'm experiencing now.

It was early afternoon by the time we returned to the hotel. We spent the day reading in the sun. I finished my book, Whitethorn Woods, and recommend it to anyone looking for a two day read on the beach. There were a couple of very funny sections, which I told Kim I would read to her. She has a bad sunburn on her back, so I had put some local hemp oil on it, as it is said to take the sting out of the burn. Anyway, she was lying on the bed, face down, with nothing but her shorts on, while the oil soaked in. I was reading away, when the door blew open, just as the neighboring Australian girls were walking to their room right next to ours. I got up, said hello, then shut the door. When I turned around, Kim was standing there, boobs hanging out everywhere and wide-eyed. "Did they see you like that?" I said, startled.

"I don't know, but I saw her face," Kim replied, seemingly shocked at the whole episode.

"Well, if you saw her face she probably saw you, don't you think? Why did you stand up anyway?"

Needless to say, we, or at least I, had a hysterical laughing fit. It was a nice moment.Baca lagi