Cayes
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by aj
The first thing we did was to motor out to the cayes and plop ourselves in the Caribbean proper. The cayes are just sand that piled on top of reefs and is now sort of held in place by colonial coconut and banana trees. Reggae takes over from the city’s American Hip-Hop.
We based ourselves on Caye Caulker, the much less developed of the two major diving cayes. Frigatebirds kite overhead, people truck around the sandy paths on golf carts and bicycle. Stray dogs and cats roam with crabs and the occasional iguana.
Our first night on Caulker we went for a sail with some Dutch and Serbians, circumnavigating the island first by sunset and later by moonlight. Sailing is fantastic, it magnified my envy of Jason’s sail from Panama to New York. I might be content to stare at moonlight on the ocean from a creaking sailboat for the rest of my natural life.
Some photos of the cayes.
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