Hammocking in South Water Caye, Belize
With all respects to heaven, I like it here…
June is the start of a mad heat and the rainy season in the tropics. All the weather sites were predicting rain every day, thunder and lightning! I was mentally preparing for the fact that all days of our vacation we would spend in the room, listening to the rain (which isn't too bad) ... But! Rain and thunderstorms were all around us, but not on South Water Caye.
Anyway, first we stopped in Dangriga, for a night. The hotel we booked in South Water Caye, Pelican Hotel Resort, also has a hotel on the shore, which is perfect, because the boat that takes you to the island is available only in the mornings. The hotel on the shore is simple, with the old world charm. Belize's colonial past was felt in the architecture of buildings, in the old verandas, flowering gardens and palm trees. Rooms are basic, nothing special. Nowhere to swim, because the water near the shore is muddy ... not very pleasant. But a day or two at this place is worth it at least for the good food, exotic feel and the town. Plus the wonderful silence ... the sound of the breeze, the ocean and the birds singing are all you can hear. We felt we were the only tourists in town.
Although, we didn't go into any restaurants. The town is completely "untouristy." But the food was pretty good in the hotel's restaurant.
During our stay in this place, I loved the long pier with hammocks and our first sunrise in Belize.
At 8:30 am we took a boat to our magical island in the Caribbean. South Water Caye. What a tropical heaven.
Imagine our surprise when we discovered that on the island we were the only guests! The whole resort belonged only to us! It was a real miracle! Your own personal island resort for 9 days! I couldn't imagine it! Here it was, the real luck - a reward for my good behavior and attitude towards life!
During our stay on the island, we also visited Angel Reef and Tobacco Reef. Both places are full of gorgeous marine life!!! South Water Caye is also surrounded by incredibly beautiful reef itself, which created a lagoon where the water was blue, smooth and clear even in windy weather! In a word, we swam every day in a live aquarium! Fish, barracuda and lonely stings rays floated so close to the beach.
And nights! Dark and warm with a velvety breeze. The sky full of stars. The first night on the island, we sat on the shore and looked at the stars and the sea sparkled a million lights. At first I thought it was stars reflected in the water, but no, this was some kind of organism, like little glowing Swarovski crystals. In very warm tropical water it is quite common. This indescribable beauty will stay in my memory forever! We really felt the connection with the universe!
On the island, there is no Internet, no connection with the artificial world at all. Nowhere to go. All you can do there is just relaxing and enjoying the glorious weather, water, your philosophical thoughts, 'hammocking' and kayaking. And reading real books, of course. I was lucky to finish 100 Years of Solitude and To Kill a Mocking Bird. It's so simple to have nothing and enjoy your life. Why would humanity destroy it. I would feel perfectly happy to eat fresh fishes caught by my man, reading good books, making some art...if only I could just live this reality instead of living the dream of the mundane. But at some point I will have my own island just like this one far far away from the fake and the mindless... making my art. And only the chosen will be able to go to visit me there! : ) Good dream to follow, isn't it?
