Due to the increase in wind, Stacey's injured knee (ask her about wrestling on a wet mat sometime), and feeling slightly dehydrated (not sure why...tee hee) we had a relaxed day.
We started out with breakfast, naturally, then we walked around the entire island. We visited the northwest end that is no longer inhabited and took pictures of what the staff refers to as the House of Exile. That was followed by snorkeling to the far shores of the floating island mat...maybe 30 m if we are lucky. On the mat, we had a revelation and a new greeting was born...FLIPPER FIVE!!!! Of course, that was not enough. It morphed into Flipper Ten, Cross Flipper Five and uproarious laughter. We were laughing so hard (not sure why...again, think it had to do with dehydration) we were crying. We decided to dive for garbage along the shoreline to help keep OUR island pristine. Karen actually managed to dive down and retrieve something. She was so proud as was Stacey. At this time, Victor showed up with his new friend, Dolly the Dolphin, and began to frolic with her in the shallows.
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| I believe this is a yellow stingray |
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| Victor trying to RIDE THE DOLPHIN! |
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| Victor RIDING THE DOLPHIN! |
During this excitement, a few boats arrived. The first was when we were still on the mat. We didn't really pay much attention to it but it was from a neighbouring island. We were soon to find out it contained our friend, Grit from Germany. We had first met her in Tikal and kept running into her. She had realized that she was on the island right next to us and had stopped here to see us and then catch our boat back to Belize City. We said that we might see her in Caye Caulker. Unfortunately, we decided to skip Caye Caulker and go straight to San Pedro instead. Sorry, Grit!
The afternoon was quiet, we started to break in the new arrivals. We quickly realized that Stacey had likely met one of the couples, Kay and Roger, before as they had owned a lodge in Red Lake ON for a number of years and had flown Bearskin Air multiple times. Small world!
At the communal shower, we learned from Kellie that "showtime is for bedtime". We quickly added this new phrase to our repertoire. We felt clean for seconds.
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| I believe this is Karen's feet in the shower. |
Just before supper, the rain began. We broke out the lovely "tourist condoms" as you will see in the photo. The weather actually got kind of yucky with high winds and rain throughout the night.
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| Stacey in a "tourist condom" |
It was Victor's turn to do a talk and so instead we played "penis croquet". This is a hilarious sport and should soon become part of the Olympics. Stacey was quite adept at maneuvering her penile appendage whereas Karen felt a little short. Pics to follow. Ultimately, it was won by Mark, who is a 5 time returning camper thus had an unfair advantage.
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| Neri and Victor demonstrating the proper techinque |
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| Freedom and Karen (Marks Karen of course) |
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| Arno and John |
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| Either Alf or Od (identical twins..tought o figure out who) and Kellie |
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| ? (the pic is dark...hard to tell) Mj, Martin and Mathew watching the crazy gringos and gringas |
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| Martin and Meg |
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| Kay and Mark in the finals. An obstacle course was added. |
Thursday dawned, barely, with clouds and strong winds. Victor informed us, via the whiteboard, we had to hunker down and there was not a lot we could do. We opted to do a low tide walk with Victor, MJ, and Nari. They handed out a few glass bottom buckets for people to look at things under the surface. They worked like giant magnifying glasses. They also instructed us not to touch anything unless they saw it first. WE obeyed the commands of Victor, but not all did! You know who you are!!!! During this time, Kellie discovered her least favourite water inhabitant (see photos later and see if you can guess which one it is), Victor showed us the true island fashion, Jorts, (see photos) and Karen dunked her camera...she needs a new one, Morley...hint, hint.
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| the weather has changed....and we are limited on what we can do! |
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| the waves breaking on the reef |
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| Karen is hiding! |
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| Karen is hiding again...but using coral to give herself antennae....I think she is getting island fever! |
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| Victor holding a ....uhhh...can't remember the exact name..but it is a starfish |
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| Moi (stacey) holding 2 types of sea urchins |
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| Kellie and Victor fixing his shorts? Or should I say JORTS??? |
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| Victor LOVING his Jorts and holding some kinds of aquatic critters |
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| The waves can be higher than we though. Heavy skirt turned to a dress! New look for 2011 |
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| Starfish transfer. Still can not remember what kind!!! OH OH OH..its a Brittle Starfish I think! |
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| Looking pretty on our Low Tide Walk. MJ about to change that!!! |
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| Karen likely pondering her soaked camera |
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| Kay..and a whelk. Kinda slimey looking |
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| HMMMMM??????? Not sure I should make a comment or not? It is a type of Conch though. |
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| Look at our lovely beach...and the crazy clouds!!! |
After lunch, we had another lecture. The coconut talk! This one involved ladders, pick axes, machetes and rum. Ask John, what a rotten coconut smells like. In fact, you can probably still smell it on his hands. ***NEW NOTE**** we forgot ALLL about the outfits that Mark and John made! Apparently it was Dr Cindys idea...but Arno would have none of it! Cindy Karen(not blog Karen) and Mark came up with an idea to dress the boys up in coconut bras, and coconut nuts (see photos) for the coconut demo! I caught Karen getting MJ to drill holes in some coconuts husks..and she LIED and said it was for the kits contest (that never really took off..thus no pics) See photos for more explanations. ALso a note on the coconut demo....fresh coconut water and rum REALLY is quite tasty. NO...REALLLY...it is! Also note...the native Belizean (MJ) getting coconuts the BELIZEAN WAY! ha ha ha ha ha
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| Neri holding the ladder, and MJ demonstrating the proper Belizean way of getting coconuts out of trees |
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| John and Mark in full island dress! |
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| John Mark and a visibly uncomfortable Victor! |
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| Mark about to show he is NUTS. |
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| Check out the shriveled up nuts! ha ha a ha |
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| John still has young nuts! NOT so saggy! |
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| Neri standing safely away from knife wielding MJ! Why wouldn | 't they let Stacey have the knife? |
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| MJ still doing a great job! Note the coconut water (AKA mix for rum) that he is collecting in the juice jug |
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| Cindy, Mark, Arno and Roger intent on watching the demo! YYYAAAYYY Roger for always joining me in a beer! |
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| Don't need much of anything to hold a coctail party! |
The strong wind surfers in the group went out to hit the waves
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| I am not at all sure who this is! |
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| This is MJ trying to help John windsurf. John chose the worst conditions to try this for the first time! |
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| I believe this is Meg going for a surf! |
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| Neri holding the kite for Meg to go kite surfing... |
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| Meg trying to get to her board before she gets sucked out! |
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| RESULTS! Off she goes! |
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| About to catch some air! |
and MJ, Nari and us decided to play a game of EXTREME BOCCI! This entailed making the course as difficult as possible, through the palm trees, over buildings, down hermit crab holes...and eventually we did our last round through the kites...and arrived back at the kitchen, in time for Stacey to WIN EXTREME BOCCI!!!!! The crowd ROARED!!!!!!! Now this might not sound so amusing to the casual observer, but it really was a great way to spend a windy day that could not be spent on the water!
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| MJ trying to decide who is closest |
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| MJ performing the Half time show! |
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| Action shot of Karen...I think she may have won this round! |
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| Some of the terrain we had to deal with! |
That night...after dinner. BECAME GAME NIGHT! Stacey, Karen, Anders, John and Kellie had an UNBELIEVABLE game of JENGA! We think we may HAVE beat the world record for moves on Jenga! But of course....we did not contact the Guiness Book of World Records! Kellie did take pics.....but Karen lost her camera to the tides...and Stacey's was charging. If Jenga wasn't fun enough...we played a cut throat game of TABOOO! Boys against the girls.....but often there were comments and hints from all sides! This is where you learn what types of CLUES not to ask!
Kellie: this is something I don't have?
Stacey: BOOOBS!!!!!
John: a gag reflex
YES....this did result in our team mate questioning our loyalty. But she soon got over it.
By they way...the answer was CHILDREN!
Kellie: I have a really STRONG one of these???
Dr Marks Karen: SMELL!!!!!!!!
again Kellie hung her head in despair and questioned her teams loyalty!
Now...we believe that the answer to this one was OPIONIONS...but due to alchohol consumption, we do not know for sure!
Somewhere in the evening, Kellie's camera went missing. After searching the dining area...and retracing her steps, we decided either someone took it in error....or Mark and Karen McLovin, were taking xrated photos back at their cabin, aptly named GROOVIN! Kellie did go and accuse Victor of taking it. As pay back for Dolly in his bed. But he assured her, he did not have anything to do with it.
Meanwhile...back at the kitchen, Karen and Stacey visited with our favorite staff members and had INTERESTING conversations.
We will end this one now...and do the last 2 days together in one entry, later on.
Until next time...Stacey and Karen
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