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| Yellow Stingray..Olivia shot this picture.. Amazing! |
Everyone was still in the villa in the morning, so I figured
I would throw in some bait to see if I could catch anything. Fun…fun…fun!
As
long as you have some pretty good bait or realistic bait, you can snag at least
some sort of fish. The prize for me would be to catch a fresh barracuda for breakfast.
One big enough we can have to feed the whole familia!! No luck.
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| On Father's Day with his two favorite kids! |
We managed to get with the dive shop here and arranged a private
boat ride, rather than the shuttle rides we would have needed to take at to San
Pedro and then to Caye Caulker. We left at about 11am and trolled, fished and snorkeled our
way to Caye Caulker at our own leisure. 
As we got to Caye Caulker there was an inlet that Clinton,
our boat Captain of the day or as we were liked to call
Next stop, we hit an
area near some mangroves to feed the Tarpon. There was a school of about 50-60
trapons ranging from sizes of 3.5 -5 feet long. These guys had been feed
well!!! We waded in with the fish for about 10 minutes. Olivia and Thomas would
throw out Sardines to feed the fish and tried to hand feed several of them. Not
so easy it seems.
After the Tarpons, headed out to “The Split”, a channel
through Caye Caulker which was caused by a hurricane back in 1961. It split the
island in two and now is the end point for the main congregation area for the
locals and tourists. It has a restaurant, bar and big dock. People swim to the
other side of the channel to climb and jump off of a tree. It’s probably the
highest point on the island…ha.ha! Caye Caulker is a very laid back small
island about 4 miles long and maybe 400
yards wide at its widest spot. People come here to do shelling, kit
surfing (big time), fishing and all around lolly gagging!!!
We docked the boat and had lunch at Rainbow Bar & Grill.
Awesome lunch. All of us had some sort of Lobster dish, except for young
Thomas. Clinton ended up having lunch with us. We made haste with the lunch so
we could get out and explore. Knowing we still had a boat ride back in which we
wanted to do some more snorkeling and fishing, we meandered through the main
street and had a couple of beers. We watched the kids tree jump several times
and then we were back off heading back towards Portofinos.
The first stop on the way back we stopped near a spot where the manatees go to play. We were fortunate to run across three. They seemed to be a family unit. Very large creatures. The photo does not give the realization of how large these sea cows really are. It is amazing to see how graceful they move about the water even with their massive size.
We hopped back in the boat and started to make our way back towards the resort. We trolled for a bit and dropped bait, but never had any real luck catching anything of worth. Once we got back to the dock, Thomas and I fished some more and I managed to rustled in a huge Mutten Snapper. Dinner for Mama..oh yeah!
At about 9pm, the lights went out suddenly. When I say it was pitch dark - it was pitch DARK! The whole island ended up having a power outage. The locals said it happens about once a month. Luckily I had several petzels to give us some simple lighting. Portofinos had some generators that kick on basic lights after a couple of minutes and the bar was back in business. We ended up finishing the night with several more drinks and finally called it a night not a moment to soon....
By the way... No A/C ... what a rough life we were leading today.. The A/C did eventually come back on around 2:30am. I slept like a baby...manatee.
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