Belize

Hello all

About time to update the blog, i still havent managed to retrospectively put up the american portion yet, it seems to big a task and the memories are already fading, damn these belikans (Belize's local, and a fine drop at that too)!! But we have spent some great times here in Belize.....

We recovered from the first night flooding incident here in Belize and made our way to the caye's (small carribean type islands) of the coast. The attitude here in Belize is about as realxed as it gets, lots of dreadlocks, carribean accents and lots of rum.

We had been told that the cayes were a nice safe place and attitudes were relaxed but when booking our first few nights accomodation on caye caulker we were just been discussing how many nights we were going to stay with the hostel owner when a commotion broke outside, with a person running up the road saying he's been stabbed! I quickly backed off on the number of nights we were staying in that place! As it turned out, much to the amusement of all the belizeans we have spoken too, it was between the two local shop owners and the stabbing weapon of choice was a pen, but it was still somewhat disconcerting at the time.

We caught up with a couple of fellow travellers from new zealand (dont beleive the hype, not all new zealanders are wankers, just most) and have spent the last week or so with them, the highlight being a 3 day yacht trip down the belizean coast. The idea of a 3 day boat trip with snorkelling fishing, and importantly food & rum supplied was floated over a quiz night (which saw the anzacs narrowly lose to the bobby stink fingers) and as the panty rippers (a combination of rum and pineapple) flowed the idea sounded better and better so we were off! Sadly the night degenerated into karaoke....

The trip was great fun, the highlight being a pair of insipid new yorkers that shared the same princess-like brain cell. The 2 man belizean crew could not stand this pair and seeing the captain laughing so hard when one of the pair was sconed by a swinging boom that he had to jump into the water was the highlight of my trip, i gathered thru massive amounts of laughter and broken english and creole that he had just told her to watch her fookin' head before she got clonked!!!! The trip also bore fruit as i caught my first ever barracuda, and spent a fair bit of time behind the wheel!

After the trip carrie and i and matt and caroline shared an appartment in placencia, yet another pretty little carribean village, and have sinced made our way up to belize city where we have made our farewells and will catch up at another stage of the journey. Carrie and i will stay in Belize for a while longer and then head to the tropical jungle ruins of tikal in Guatemala.

Good to hear the crows are going well, and the legs got up over the mongrels at alberton, keep up the emails everyone, they are always apreciated, good to hear all is well mum and dad, nepal sounds amazing!

takekeerr (my best attempt at the broken english accent that they talk with over here!)

brettski

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carrieski