When we landed we took a golf cart taxi into town. there are no cars on the caye, only golf carts & bikes. Our taxi driver owns a gift shop & let us store our bags in his store while we were on the island. We stopped for a local breakfast of brown eggs, bacon & fry jacks, which are awesome & would become part of breakfast every morning!. We walked the beach, which is the length of the island & beautiful. Now it's time to snorkel. Since we have to catch the last flight back to the mainland we can only do a half day snorkel which was $35 each for 3 hours. Unlike most snorkel trips we have taken this one was a 15min. boat ride to our first snorkel stop on the barrier reef. Belize has the second longest barrier reef in the world. We have snorkeled most of the Caribbean Islands & Mexico, but this by far the best snorkel we have ever done, & the least expensive as well! We snorkeled with rays, nurse sharks, so many beautiful fish & amazing coral. Our guide took us through the coral in the reef, where sometimes there was barely a passage for us to fit through, & often the coral was right under us. It was so beautiful. We will definitely repeat this snorkel when we return to Belize. Back on the Caye we played tourist, we shopped had lunch & generally enjoyed speaking with the locals who were all very friendly. Caye Caukler turned out to be our second favorite place in Belize!
After a fun filled day it was back to the air strip & our flight back to the mainland for our final night at the Gecko Bungalow. Tomorrow it's off to the jungle for a few days.
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