Hi!
Thank you guys for holding out for the weekend while we were having fun at Caye Caulker. Man it was a blast! I went scuba diving, then hanging out and getting some good food and some shopping. It was a nice and relaxing weekend. Here's a pic of me right before we took off to dive:
"Hey Adam, what is life like in Belize?" you may ask. Well let me tell you. It's different. I think one of the biggest differences is the confidence that Belizeans have about things gettting done, and not worrying about a time period. That's something that i've felt is that they get alot of bad rep about is being late for stuff and not showing up, But I think it's a very neat thing to not be stressed and enjoy the things that come up throughout the day rather than getting stressed about one specific thing.
I also wish we (myself included) relaxed more like Belizeans do. My experience here has been one of enjoying the simply things like doing absolutely nothing but sitting on a balcony and enjoying the breeze. I feel that i don't do that as much because i'm always worring about one thing or another. And sunscreen and bug spray are the perfumes, at least for us visitors. lol But seriously, i've really enjoyed everything here. The people are so inviting and random people will say hi to you on the street and ask about your day. Also bicycles are a big thing here.
The story for the weekend though: So we're on our way back from Caye Caulker, and all 56 of us are piled in this ferry that takes us to Belize city. So we're crusing along and all of a sudden we just stop. One of the captians comes down and tells us that an engine broke down! However, there are three engines so we still had two working ones but it wasn't enough power to haul everyone back. Luckily, another one of the ferrys departed at the same time as us, so some people went back on that one. I, of course, wanted to ride on the broken one so i could stretch out, which led to me sleeping. But it took an extra 45 minutes to get back. It was crazy.
One more and then i'm done. So i'm scuba diving, cuz that's the cool thing to do, and i bring along my underwater camera. So after the hour long boat ride to an atol (little island thingy) by the reef, we jump in and get about our scuba diving business. So i'm chilling at about 80 feet and all of a sudden i hear a loud pop. I thought someone hit my tank or something but noone did so i didn't think anything of it. So I go to take a picture of some cool sea stuff and realize that my camera has caved in on the backside. So i start wondering, how deep can my camera go? Well, the answer is it's good to a depth of 35 feet; not 80. lol So then it didn't work for a while until we got back up to 60 feet and was sketchy about working the rest of the 3 dives. So i'm hoping all of my pictures develop because I got some cool pictures! We saw an Eagle Ray, barracudas, lobsters, starfish. It was insane.
Alright i'm finally done. Here's a picture of the coast to lead ya'll out. I'll post again soon!
-AB
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