We arrived in Belize City on the afternoon of march 18, were ushered quickly into a cab, and hauled to the water taxi station in Belize City. The driver was literally driving 65 MPH on roads with no lines - passing trucks and running down scooters piled three people high. The taxi had not even come to a complete stop when two Belizians threw open the doors, grabbed our bags and started heading into the water taxi station. As Brian paid the driver, i followed them. Now, this is not so much a station like you would consider a bus station. It's a shack with some lawn chairs on the port in Belize. For $35 BZ ($17.50 US) we purchased round-trip tickets on a boat to Caye Caulker. And Georgia, these aren't little speed boats of our past experience (5 years ago). These are boats with covers that seat up to 30 people or more. No more caye-hopping in the pouring rain for us!

Caye Caulker is still amazingly gorgeous, though much more fast-paced than I recall. People still run around barefoot, but there's way more golf carts than there used to be and cars! (Yes Georgia, cars!) In 2004, you would not see one car on this island.

tomorrow we depart for Dangriga or Placencia...have not yet decided.