Purplelake: Day 8 - Dec 13, 2018 Caye Caulker, Belize

Today is our final day on Caye Caulker and it's a land day. After breakfast and packing up, we borrowed the bicycles from our hotel and rode all round the caye. This island is perfect to be explored on bike. There is not much traffic and the landscape is flat.

Caye Caulker is not big. The main town is on a long narrow strip of land on the North side. As we went South, the area turned more residential and less commercial. There was even an elementary school. The municipal airport is where the town stopped. Below that, the trail went past many nice mansions and big properties. We stopped to chat with an owner who put his 9 acres property up for sale. He was born a Canadian but now lives in Belize. He has a huge house and has now retired after successful business ventures. On the way back, we found one nice looking hotel Colinda Cabana with several ocean facing cabins. Out of curiosity, I asked about their price and the owner actually showed us the cabin. It was a complete self contained one bedroom unit with full kitchen and living facing the ocean. The rent is only $129 USD per day. It was at least three times the size of our small hotel room and cheaper. We will definitely stay there if we ever come back.

We went back to the seahorse place but unfortunately we did not see any this time. There was a small barracuda trying to ambush its prey near the shore. The 1:30p ferry back to Belize City was almost full and after we checked into the Radisson hotel, we found that we were upgraded again to the same suite as two days ago. Afterward, we checked out the biggest department store, Brodie, in downtown and bought some famous local hot sauce to bring home.