Fishing

As planned, we went fishing on Tuesday. And here are the pictures to prove it:
Snapper was first on the agenda:

It is hard to convey just how nice the weather is here. This is what constitutes a traffic jam on the water. San Pedro has really embraced the island way of life with time being a suggested thing instead of a way to regulate your life.

Baracuda was next:

The entire haul:

And here is the picture of our hotel from the fishing boat.
See that guy in the blue soccer jersey sitting underneath a palm tree? Yep, that's me. I bailed on the fishing and sent Paty out to represent the Tobin's. It's a long story that involved a mild case of Mantezuma's revenge, coupled with a fishing boat that didn't have a bathroom, an early wake up call and you get the idea. Paty did well though as you can see.

Since I didn't fish, I did most of the cooking (like this wasn't going to happen anyway). We again availed ourselves of the hotel bikes and rode to the local grocery and stocked up on supplies for the night.

The final tally was A LOT of different types of snapper and three baracuda. Here is what we did with them:


Dinner at the bar and the entire crew:


We actually had quite a bit of leftovers, but after feeding our extremely helpful hotel bar tender that helped us with the cooking utensils and the local security we still had a lot of fish left. Luckily for us the Belize Army has some troops here at the hotel and they happily ate ALL the extra food.

The Army people mainly stay in their room during the day or lounge on the hammocks, and they patrol the island at night. Apparently earlier in the year they had some problems with tourists getting mugged. Well since 100% of their economy is tourism and the local police were either bad or complacent (more likely) in doing something about it the local businesses talked to the federal government and donated accomadations so they could send in the army to crack down on nighttime loitering. It has been worked extremely well and the muggings have stopped entirely. The only thing is, it's kind of a shock to see four guys come out of a hotel room in army dress and M16's the first time. But for sure we feel safe! And now they are fed.

All for now, Wednesday we were supposed to go to Lamani but our tour was pushed back to Thursday. So tomorrow is open, probably some island time for us!