San Pedro Chicken

2/2/2017 started off with a morning walk on the beach for me around sunrise.  The day was already warm but a little on the windy side.  Why was I up at such an ungodly hour on vacation?  The main reason was I could not find the proper combination for our room's AC.  I turned it on and the fan blows cool air out.  Approximately 1&1/2 hours later, I am shivering and feel like I might freeze to death so I turn it off/down.  About 1&1/2 hours later I am flopping around about to breakout into a full sweat.  This cycle repeated itself a few times until I decided to just get up and go for a walk. 

I did get to see a little sunrise action.

 

Sunrise in the Caribbean 

 

One more for affect.

Kari and I enjoyed a continental breakfast at Victoria House and relaxed until 8 AM.  That is when our charter boat with our guide, Roberto arrived.  We jumped on deck and head for a morning of reef fishing.    We stopped and collected small sardines for our bait and headed out to the artificial reefs on the west side of the island.   We were looking to catch snapper and Macrow  mostly.  We traveled to several spots in the morning.  None were amazing, but we caught a few reasonable sized fish at each one.  Kari was ahead for a least most of the morning.  I closed strong and managed to take home the title of most fish caught.  I Didn't get a lot of great pictures on the water.

We were hounded by an aggressive group of pelicans during the middle of the morning.  Kari actually hooked one as he tried in vain to snatch her catch off the hook before it made the boat.  A little oral surgery on our pelican friend and he was free but no less aggressive.

We arrived back at the dock around 12.  Roberto, our guide cleaned our catch of snappers.  We then presented the filets to the cook for a little lunch.

 

The fish 

 

Kari is supervising the fileting of the fish

 

Always nice to catch your lunch.  Fish tacos.  The far side is blackened snapper.  The near side is simple grilled.  It always taste a little better if you caught it.

We also had the staff make some snapper ceviche for an afternoon snack.  That was the best thing we did with our catch.  It didn't last long enough to get a photo.

The aftenoon consisted of relaxing by the pool.

Our evening out started by going to the "world famous" Wahoo Lounge for the chicken drop.  What is the chicken drop? Well after standing or sitting around for 2 hours in order to get a good spot, you have the opportunity to by 5 square in one of the 5 to 10 games that will be played.  Then you stand around some more listening to the Rasta hype man destroy perfectly good Bob Marley songs with his ridiculous effects.  Finally they bring out a chicken.  Next they get a moderately attractive tourist lady to shake the chicken up and eventually they trick her into blowing up the chicken's butt.   Finally, the chicken is dropped in this little pen with 100 squares and a little seed.  The people cheer, the chicken clucks, pecks and eventually poops.  If he poops on your square, you will a $100 Belize and get to clean the square.  The process repeats for at least 5 games.  I am not young enough and don't think I could make that entertaining for 5 games.  The chickens we saw were terrible looking too.  I am a little surprised Simone from PETA didn't run through and try to free the chicken. His name was Nicky.  I may try and start a gofundme page to free Nicky the chicken.

 

Kari out front the day after the crimes against chickens occurred.

We eventually had dinner at the Blue Water cafe.  The food and drinks were great.  

 

The sign in the Blue Water Cafe.  Now just for clarity. This Blue Water Cafe is good.  The greatest Blue Water Cafe is in Vancouver and I would go there tomorrow to eat if possible.

We stopped at the Belize Choclate shop for a little treat and headed back to the resort.  Another successful day at the beach.