Greetings from Caye Caulker

We arrived here on the 11th along with Mike and Jackie Travis. Rob and Linda Langille joined us on the 12th and my friend, Alice, from Alaska showed up on the 14th. Les' friend, Harold, came with us from Mexico and Guatemala so for a while we were a party of eight!

We lucked out in the lobster department as our landlord, who is also a fisherman, had just come from his last lobster run of the season and we were able to buy a nice supply of lobster tails and the big crab claws for $5 per lb. We had our first lobster/crab feed (and pina colada party) while Rob, Linda, Mike, and Jackie were still here. We were joined by neighbor, Richard, and new friend and traveling companion from Guatemala, Lawrence. Harold and Alice missed out as they left that morning. Sorry guys!!

We went out to the reef with Ras Creek in his little palapa roofed boat. Both the Travis and Langille parties expressed doubts about the seaworthiness of his craft but we survived and had a good time.

There is a new eatery on the island. They serve Cuban food and every Saturday they roast a whole pig. We had some last Saturday and it was soooo good. This will be a regular Saturday stop for us! Another treat was that Meldy came by and helped Jackie and me make a seafood stew. Fun and good eating.

We have made several trips out to my property and I am now in the process of having 10 boatloads of sand delivered and spread out there which should be enough to be ready to build. A slight problem (or maybe a big one) is that now they are starting to require house plans and building permits. I should have started building last year! Will be looking into it.

Linda and Jackie and I went out to the yoga center by my property and had a nice class on Wednesday. I plan to attend more!!

They are all gone now. Linda and Rob left Wednesday afternoon and we saw Mike and Jackie off this morning. Will miss them all but someone has to stay and eat lobster, snorkel, kayak, soak up sun, etc. Tough job but I think we can handle it.