Belize 2010_23

Matt, dad, and Karlene decided to do a downwinder into town in pretty light wind. I decided to stay and blog for a little bit. Matt and I got the GoPro hooked to his kite to test it out. Once they were all out the hung around for as long as they could then took off. Madre' said that we needed to go into town to get them and why don't I kite and she'll ride her bike? I figured why not. The wind was still light so I kept in site of madre' on the beach incase I needed to come in. I made it all the way to town by myself not knowing where the fam would be. Before I left madre' and I decided we would meet at Central Park. I could see two kites on the beach right in front of Central Park. Karlene landed my kite and madre' pulled up on her bike. They said they would have waited for me but I made the decision to go out last minute. We all had a good time in the light wind. Karlene had an issue right outside of town by the reef so she had a good refresher course in self rescuing, very well done.

We all had a delicious breakfast at Estel's and dad rode home to get the boat to pick us up. Matt is thinking about getting his captain's licence next year so dad doesn't have to do double duty all the time. As we were waiting we saw two girls on a jet ski high center themselves on a sandbar. They were yelling distance away from where they rented it and the guys were trying to tell them to turn the engine off. All they could do is say "what"? The driver got off and tried to rock the jet ski off the sandbar while the other girl just sat there, pretty funny. Matt and I started to walk over to help when one of the guys at the shop jumped on a jet ski to help them.

I was watching the guys at the jet ski shop and they were hand feeding a pelican and trying to pet its head, really cute. Dad parked the boat on the dock with the jet ski's right outside Estel's and we packed our gear and his to the boat. The jet ski guys said that the pelican was their pet and it even nipped at Karlene's board as she walked by. Karlene said she thought the bird thought it was food and told it to shoo. We still needed some more fish so we went to the buoy outside our place. I ended up breaking my pole so I reeled it in and there was an eel on the end of my hook! It was so creepy, squirming like a snake. Matt had to get the pliers and grab the hook to shake him off because nobody wanted to touch it and we didn't know if we could eat it.

Karlene caught a nice sized grouper that had another hook and bait in its mouth. We figured it must have been the one that just got away from Matt. The sea rays had come by then looking for food. We had to move because they were trying to eat our bait, there was four of them all together. No more action so we went home for fish n' chips.