Daily life on San Pedro (on Caye Ambergris) and Caye Caulker has been slow, with electric golf carts the transport mode of choice for getting around. The locals are a mix of many countries and cultures, and I have heard Creole, Jamaican, Spanish, Lebanese, Chinese and English in my time walking around between scuba dives. The only word I was able to understand during an angry drunken exchange between some Jamaicans the other night was the 'F' word, and I was left wondering if the only reason for that is because Gordon Ramsey's cooking show airs on the television over here.
Talking of food, it has been a similar culinary mix of many countries and cultures, and I have enjoyed banana bread, a mammoth foot long burrito, jerk chicken and rice, plantain crisps and hopefully tonight, a shrimp curry in coconut sauce.
However great local cuisine aside, even if it wasn't for the dusty beaches and sea weedy sea, I don't think I would fancy permanent residency on the Belizean islands, as their flat topology makes them feel only a few melted icebergs away from extinction. So I will leave the USD 4 Million island currently for sale nearby that boasts Leonardo Di Caprio as a next door neighbour for other interested parties, and head for the Belize mainland on Sunday after my dive at the Blue Hold tomorrow.
Life is sometimes slow on the islands
