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Day 6 – Diving and San Pedro

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Having arrived on the island of San Pedro, it’s time to go diving!

The view from the deck on our villa. This was a little shared lagoon with the bar and resort office in the middle of it.

Our villa from the outside.

There was a dock named Coco Loco near our place. We drove the golf cart over and waited at around 8:30am and the dive shop would send a boat around to pick us and our gear up. Very convenient! (Note Kerry and her Kindle :P)

The dive shop, getting some equipment. We brought wet suits, masks, snorkels, fins and boots, but had to rent BCDs, weights and…air.

Chilling on the dock. In our sexy, sexy wet suits.

The neat thing about diving at 9am, is that after two dives it’s about 1pm. You’ve been productive, you’ve had an amazing day, you’ve seen rocks and fish and turtles and it’s great. And. It’s 1pm. So you have an entire afternoon/evening still to be amazing in.

We played Agricola :P.

The streets of San Pedro. Note the golf carts parked all over the left. And the SUV. I feel sorry for people who drive SUVs/real cars on this island, there isn’t really a lot of space for them.

This is a Polaris. The SUPER gold cart.

MOAR BELIKAN

Sean and I went for a drive up island and found this crazy little restaurant on a dock over the water. They had a little bouyed/fenced in area with inner tubes – apparently during the day you can sit in the water and they will bring beer to you :P. I had…a grouper! And we spoke to this strange man who apparently builds US military bases. Secret military bases. That you can find on Google Maps very easily.

That’s unfortunately about it. As I said, most of the awesome was diving :P. Anyone want to add anything here? I bet we took a nap…seemed like there was a lot of napping around 1pm…

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Day 5 – San Pedro

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We arrived in San Pedro and it was getting dark out. You get off the water taxi and onto the beach. This is my first view of the island.

We secured ourselves some diving for the next day and then got ice cream while we waited for our resort (resort? Wasn’t really what you think of as a resort.) to send us a person to pick us up. He arrived and less than 10 minutes later we were there.

This was a really nice place. I was impressed. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room.

Travel around the island is almost entirely golf cart. There is an industry on the island that allows for multiple golf cart rental stores to exist. The people who live up-island have “Polaris” – it’s not a golf cart, but it’s related. We went through 3 golf carts while we were there…and I’m told there was a fourth before I arrived (they were staying at this villa before they picked me up at the airport).

Sean and I drove into town to grab some food. We ordered pupusas and then sat at the bar while we waited for them to be made. Sean’s drink is a Dirty Banana (no idea what’s in it) and mine is a Michelada. It is…

  1. The juice of 1.5 limes
  2. Marie Sharpes hot sauce
  3. Salt
  4. Pepper
  5. A Belikin. That’s the local Belizean beer.
  6. This particular variety had tomato juice in it, but others I had on the island didn’t.

SPICY. Our food arrived and I had to down the last of the drink…wherein I learnt that the reason you have the bottle there is so you can re-fill your drink of beer when you get to the bottom where the rest of the mixture has settled. VERY SPICY.

Sean packs his dive bag for the next morning.

Agricola! woo!

I was a vegetable farmer. The orange chips are vegetables.