Going out with a bang!

We had a terrific last day on the island. Kim and I dove twice in the morning. The dives were off of Long Caye and Chapel Caye, both small and less inhabited islands south of Caye Caulker. The water was relatively calm, and it was just the two of us and Drew, from Maryland. Both sites were filled with colorful corals and sponges, as well as some particularly large lobsters. Oddly, a mid-sized, weird looking silver fish was cruising by Kim but instead of turning to avoid her, he just came right at her. He stopped just short of her mask, then headed on his way. It was very peculiar. It's not like he didn't have the entire ocean in which he could swim, but it was as if he picked her out, honed in on the mask, and needed to make eye contact.

We followed up diving with a great lunch at "El Paso" where Kim got a gordita, I had two tostadas, and we shared a guacamole and chips and had two Cokes for less than $6 US. With all the excitement, Kim was exhausted and took a nap, while I picked up another book, hung in the hammock, and relaxed in the last hours of the tropical sun.

We caught a local soccer game before dinner. There was a lot of action and the "not yellow" team won. There was a team with yellow mesh vests, and the other team was everybody else on the field. We noticed that our waiter from breakfast this morning was playing forward and he was dang fast, too. Not bad entertainment for a Saturday night! But wait, it got better. We went to the beach for dinner. Kim had scoped out "Fran's Grill" which was literally a small shack with a large barbecue grill out front. I had the grilled shrimp and Kim went with the grilled snapper, both were accompanied by curried rice and a garlic/butter baked potato. Wow! Great choice. The food was terrific. We sat on a picnic bench with a couple from Ireland and another couple from Louisiana. Luckily the Louisiana couple left first, which then made room for our friends from Switzerland. Actually she was from Switzerland and had met him (her husband) forty years ago in London, where he was born and raised. But actually he was Irish (not sure how that all worked) and by dessert the Irish couple was talking about his kin in Cork and how they all have high singsongy voices and the wife from Switzerland found this terribly funny but I'm not sure I really understood what they were talking about. Then we all complained about the banks in each country and how the executives should be killed for driving the economies into the ground, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, it was a fabulous group of people, who were all very enjoyable. We were sad to have to leave their company, but the beach was getting a little chilly.

We're finishing the night off with packing, shopping, and generally organizing our things. We take the 0830 ferry tomorrow morning to Belize City, where we will be catching a flight back to the internationally renowned city of Denver.Read more