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| Our friend Emma organized a trip to Caye Caulker with several of our other friends to celebrate her 40th birthday. |
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| We love Caye Caulker (and Emma), so we jumped at the chance to go. |
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| Checking out the area at The Split... |
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| Oli, Pam, Amanda and Emma |
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| It happened to be the same weekend that some friends of ours were playing on the island also. |
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| Blues International at The Split sign - Mickey Mercury, Steev Inglish (aka Mr. Downchild) and Trevor Wall (from left to right). |
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| Emma's Swedish and IKEA inspired birthday cake |
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| Happy Birthday, Emma! |
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| We enjoyed watching our friends play some great blues music for a while. |
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| We went to several other bars, and somehow Pam ended up with the birthday crown (and took total advantage of it). |
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| Just a guy hanging out in his Speedos. |
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| There was even some night swimming. |
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| Birthday girl Emma looking good on our boat excursion the next day. |
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| Coco King is a relatively new establishment on the north part of the island, and we stopped there for lunch and a swim. |
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| Then we headed out to the reef to go snorkeling at a couple of different spots. This is Shark Ray Alley, and we saw several nurse sharks and rays there. |
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| Rays |
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| Forgot to bring the GoPro, so we didn't get any underwater photos. |
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| Waves breaking on the barrier reef. |
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| Coral as seen from above the water. |
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| Some of the ladies hung out and walked around the island tagging it with stickers for Emma's business. |
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| Emma putting her stickers on the back of a sign with several other stickers. |
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| It seemed like a good place that people would see a lot, because who wouldn't walk up to it to see about Mandingo Sex Machine!? (We actually met this guy later in the evening, lol.) |
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| Beautiful skies nearing sunset! |
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| Pelican party on the dock at Iguana Reef Inn. |
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| The seahorse habitat there is much smaller since they expanded their beach, and we didn't see any seahorses. |
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| Our musician friends played at The Split again in the late afternoon/early evening. |
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| There was even a nice bonfire. |
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| We all joined up later, and Amanda took her turn wearing the birthday crown. |
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| Emma's boyfriend, Gilly, brought several (eco-friendly) lanterns to light and release. |
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| Some didn't rise like they were supposed to. |
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| Others floated off into the night sky and were beautiful. |
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| We had a great time sitting on a dock watching the lanterns, talking, laughing a TON, and making up a whole new country (Baklavia) of which we are all now citizens! (Sorry, we have lots of private jokes now because of this trip.) |
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| Cheryl attempting the splits at The Split. |
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| Luckie attempting the splits at The Split - gotta love his face!!! |
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| We had to get a pic of Eric with this manatee sign because of his "run in" with a manatee - sorry, another private joke. |
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| 69 dolphins, lol! |
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| We found it to be a funny design they picked for their wall. |
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| The following morning half the group headed back on Gilly's family's boat. |
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| Half of us went back on the water ferry to Belize City (then drove to Hopkins). |
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| Amon brought his computer so he could play games in the down time, like on the ferry boat ride. |
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| We had a couple of fun detours on the drive back to Hopkins. This pretty sky was seen leaving our last detour to the Jungle Dome outside Belmopan. |
