Belize - South Water Caye

Plane to Dangriga.

First sandy beach, at Pelican Resort in Dangriga.

Our room at South Water.

Hammock baby.

5 squids all in a row.

 

We stayed at The Pelican Pouch at South Water Caye and it was like being at a zen garden with walk-in snorkeling. Every day they rake the sand on the third of the island that is owned by Pelican Pouch so that it is clean and soothing. We stayed in the only cabana without a name, high on stilts and a distance from any of the other cabanas.

Robert went on two snorkeling trips and 4 diving trips. I stayed at the resort and lay on the beach and walked into the surf for stunning snorkeling. Near the beach we saw 11 squid, lined up in a row almost by size and just swaying in the tide with their tentacles bent over the top like a mop head. They would get darker when we'd come closer and lighter when we went further away.

We got burned to a toasty red when we first got there, thanks to taking doxycycline for malaria prevention.

While we were there the resort brought in a babysitter for Isabel from Dangriga (the closest city on the mainland), Tomasita, who brought her 2 year old daughter Tiara with her. Isabel went with Tomasita every day for several hours while I read books and Robert dove or snorkeled. It was lovely. Isabel never liked going with her, but she got more and more used to it and would be playing with Tiara when we went to pick her up.

Usually we'd go swimming in the morning with Isabel, then again around 3pm. Isabel liked the water and riding around on Daddy's back, being buried in the sand, and looking for star fish.