Just a few quick words about my first visit to the cayes.
On Sunday I went with Allison, an American volunteer at CARE, to Caye Caulker, which is a small island about 35km out to sea from Belize City.
As the day was very hot we spent our time wandering aimlesly but enjoyably around the sand streets and along the beach of the small village.
If you like to fish, dive, snorkel, or mess about on a boat, this is the place to be.
The reef is close enough to explore (but not to swim out to because of the speedboats that whizz up and down with no regard for anyone else in the water), though we were content to stay ashore and soak up the sun on this occasion.
White sand and swaying palm trees helped to create that ambience you imagine all Caribbean islands are blessed with, and I enjoyed a lunch of lobster quesadilla (which was strangely delicious) at a restaurant on stilts overlooking the turquoise ocean.
If you're reading this in the rain and cold, just picture me frantically applying cortisone cream to the bites around my ankles - acquired on the day I arrived before I had chance to apply insecticide.
More soon.
Viv
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