Tobacco Caye, Belize
200ft wide and 400 ft long
To celebrate making it past the two year mark as volunteers we saved up our little pennies and headed out to Tobacco Caye, a very very tiny island with little rooms ON the water! It was pretty cheap and we took all the cabanas at Paradise Lodge. This was the first time in a while a large group of us, serving all over the country, got to get together. We were the only visitors on the island the first night, and the second night there were campers from a sailing tour.
The gang on Taylor's veranda
The very difficult group shot!
Family dinners!!
Included in the cost are three home cooked meals at set times each day. They ring a cow bell, and since the island is so small you can hear it from anywhere and we came a running!!! Adam, a fellow PCV bought a 25 BZE (12.50) lobster the guy just caught and they cooked it up for him no charge (about 3 pounds of lobster tail dripping in delicious garlic and butter). Adam swore it was the best lobster he'd ever had, and lobster is his favorite food so that's saying a lot!
The main dock
We spent most of our time here swimming in the clear waters, trying to stay away from 'Bite-ee' (the nurse shark that liked to hang under the dock) and swimming out to the sand bar. Floaty toys were bought in Dangriga and much fun, floating and swimming was had by all.
View of the cabaña, the coral comes right up to the veranda and you can watch puffer fish, stick fish and other little fishies swim around while you sip tea in your hammock!
Our last night we did a little kumbaya circle, turned share your funniest moment circle under the full moon. It was a very nice little break from the stress of leaving our villages and towns before many of us headed to Belmopan for our check out medical examinations.
