Belize Day Eleven: Another goodbye

Our final night on the island, the staff was nice enough to go to a neighboring island to gather firewood, aka boards from an old house that had been destroyed in a hurricane.  The group was scattered around the island relaxing until the fun started.  The fire was massive, the company was great, and Harri delighted us with his guitar and vocal skills.  He is really very good even if he is a Brit.

The next morning it was too windy to dive so I went about photographing the terns that had nested all over the island.  The island staff had build coral guards over all of the eggs since the terns just lay them out in the open and guests seem to step on them.

The boat ride back to the mainland was quite exciting.  About an hour in and only a few miles off the coast we were hit by Punta Gorda's first storm in months.  The rain stung our faces like a swarm of bees.  We were drenched in moments.  The boat docked on the Ranger Station island where we took shelter for the seven or eight minutes it took the down poor to pass.  Afterwards, the water was eerily smooth and clear.  And yes, Courtney's jade eyes matched it perfectly.

There were lights all over the island with Queen conch shells arranged cleverly to emit asterisk-like rays around them. 

Harri doing his thing.

This one's my favorite.

Tracy and Simon (front left and right) were our scuba instructors.  They met and got together here on the island when she was interning and now both work here full time.  He's from England and she's from North Carolina.  They are an amazing couple who get along very well considering they live together and work together full time.  They're both very attractive people too; she has eyes the color of a green sea and his are ocean blue.  She also has the most beautiful and long naturally-grown fingernails I've ever seen.

Chrissie and Harri after the downpour.

 

Haha.  She cracks me up.