Thursday, January 17, 2008

Belize - December 25th, 2007


On Christmas Day we spent a full day out in the Bay of Honduras.

We left Machaca Hill around 8:30 AM to meet our two guides, Joevani (sic) and Dario on the outskirts of Punta Gorda. After some introductions and brief preparation we got into the outboard motor fiberglass boat - called the Permit - a little after 9 AM.

Our destination for the day was the Snakes Cayes about 10 to 15 miles off the coastline.

As we got close to the Snake Cayes our guides gave us two fishing poles to troll for permit and barracuda. Trolling involves running the boat at slow speed and using poles that are a lot stiffer than those used for fly fishing.

We made our way to the center part of the Cayes to a small 1 acre island that housed the ranger station. There we met the head ranger, George and he gave us a thorough introduction to the Cayes using a pointing stick and map hung on the wall.

After paying permit fees for use of the reserve we left the island to go to West Snake Caye where we had lunch and snorkled.

Christmas dinner back at Machaca Hill was buffet style. I brought out the wine that I had packed from the states, Rich got to carve a ham and the dinner was nice for the occasion. A local band was even hired by the lodge to play for about 2 hours. The were a reggae/ska band and even played classic hits like Crazy Bald Head.

Although we really didn't have a formal Christmas celebration it was a very nice day nonetheless.

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