Thursday, May 27, 2010

Leaving Belize - heading for Key West

From Caye Caulker, we sailed 15 miles north to San Pedro on Caye Ambergris. Neat town for checkout. Well off to dinner, then a 4-5 day sail to Key West. We're trying to circumvent the shit storm from the oil leak - wish us luck. Oh yeah, extra busy hurricane season coming - what no locusts?! All the best until then from Jungle Jim, Jenee and first mate Kayleigh.

No picture of Special C, but I do have Kayleigh and Jenee. Looking good.

And here we are at Slippery Joes for cocktails and cool reggae music. As I'm listening to the music, I ask the bartender who it was. He points to a reggae looking dude and says "it's him". Special C comes up and introduces himself and said he hangs at the bar because otherwise people won't blieve it's him. Bought his CD for $25 Belize, $12 US and I'm chillin'. He's emailing me the words - Belize Creole.

Here we are looking west.

Inside the Belize reef makes for interesting sailing. We hit ground threee times in a channel aptly named Porto Stuck. The charts were wrong, the GPS was incorrect, Captain Jimbo was stressing and Jenee came to the rescue by spotting the only deep water out and pointing the way - hala-luya! On the other side we made it to Caye (key) Caulker, a cool little island with sand roads. My Dad would call it Key Cah-kah. Here's the main east-west drag, looking east.

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