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From	To	Mode	Duration	Cost
🇺🇸 Leo's Lair	🇺🇸 San Francisco International Airport	Bus	02:20	£7.83
🇺🇸 San Francisco International Airport	🇺🇸 William P. Hobby Airport	Plane	03:04	£234.10
🇺🇸 William P. Hobby Airport	🇧🇿 Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport	Plane	01:57	£234.10
🇧🇿 Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport	🇧🇿 Belize City Ferry Terminal	Taxi	00:22	£23.49
🇧🇿 Belize City Ferry Terminal	🇧🇿 Caye Cualker Ferry Terminal	Speedboat	00:45	£29.93

Rejuvenated from a stay with Leo, we set off for our first and only stop in Central America.

Our plan was to do a short stop in Belize, primarily to see some manatees, before snaking our way down South America.

After landing in Belize City, we immediately set sail for Caye Caulker. It’s an island accessible with a short ferry crossing. It’s a tourist magnet. It boasts lots of tours, many of which include the possibility of snorkeling with manatees. We booked onto one.

First up, some fun facts about manatees:

• They’re mammals, and feed their young from nipples in their armpits 🙋‍♀️🥛
• They’re also known as Sea Cows 🐮
• They can live to be between 40-60 years old

We were out of luck on the first manatee stop. No sighting. We carried on, and saw some other cool marine life.

Loggerhead turtles:

Nurse sharks:

Southern rays:

The guide promised we’d do another stop to look for manatees before heading home. We swam back out with high hopes, and we got very lucky:

The water was very cloudy. It made for a brilliant moment on approach, where the figure of the manatee gradually revealed itself. We got to spend a few minutes with him before he swam further into the ocean.

Our main goal in Belize was ticked off ✅.

The island was like a furnace. We were extremely thankful of the air conditioning in our hostel, so spent a lot of time chilling out there. We found some good places to eat/drink for the rest of our time:

A beach bar seemed to attract lots of Pelicans, Stingrays and Sea Horses. (We presume they fed them, which isn’t good for them 🙁). We managed to get a couple of snaps and hang around with the pelicans for a bit:

But it was so hot that we could barely function. We quickly ran away to a more shaded part of the island.

That brings us to the end of our short stay in Belize. We were incredibly lucky to be able to snorkel with a manatee 😁 and enjoyed seeing the other wildlife.

Next up, we flew to Colombia. Not sure our parents were big fans of this destination. But we had a great time, and it felt very safe. Join us next time!