One week is more than enough time to spend in Ambergris Caye. In fact, 4 or 5 days would have ben sufficient. There aren’t many activities besides the pricey watersports that will keep you entertained. The beaches are somewhat disappointing with all the seagrass washing up ashore. Bettina left us this morning to head back home before embarking on an Alaskan adventure next week. We, on the other hand, will spend the next couple of days on the mainland in Bermudian Landing, where we will stay at the Community Baboon Sanctuary.
Bermudian Landing village is a mere 45 minutes outside Belize City. However, it took us about 3 hours to get there. Dr. Roy Young who runs the Nature Resort Lodge next to the CBS was to pick us up at the airport. The idea of holding up a sign with our names at the arrival halls never entered the brilliant mind of this Cornell educated PhD. We did notice him before, and did suspect that he was Dr. Young, but there wasn’t any indication of who he was. So we sat, and waited, and waited, and waited, and called him on our phones to see where he was. The number we had was for the Lodge, which always had a busy signal. We finally found his cell number, and phoned him. Turns out he was at the airport and “didn’t see us.” How the hell was he supposed to know who we were? He was already on his way out of the airport. I told him we were at the domestic arrival hall. Somehow he mistaken that to mean the domestic airstrip in Belize. Again, this is a Cornell PhD I’m talking about.
Another hour passed, we’re starving, tired, and Bettina is probably in Miami waiting for her connecting flight. He finally shows up 2 and a half hours later in his gold colored Trooper. He’s a pretty nice, quiet man, and probably the only person in all of Belize not wearing an old t-shirt with shorts and sandals.
