Seb had left the previous afternoon to go back to Belize
City and on to the northern border to stay at Corozal in order to be at the
border at 8am to pick up the necessary permits to allow Betsy to be driven
south to meet us. We were due to take the 10.30 water taxi from Caye Caulker to
meet the bus at 11.30.
At around 10.15am just before we were due to go to the water
taxi, Seb had still not set off so we delayed our departure until the next
water taxi at 12 midday and we still hadn't heard from Seb so we opted to delay our departure yet again to 1.30pm
and we took the water taxi still without hearing from Seb. We had arrived at
Belize City at 2.30pm when we got a text from Seb to say that he had finally got
the permits and was setting off.
Meanwhile I took my last photos on Caye Caulker.
It would take two hours to drive to Belize City so we had
some spare time. So I had time to be a tourist in Belize City. I passed the
Taiwan embassy en route to the Fort George lighthouse and the tomb of Baron
Viktor Bliss who was a generous benefactor to the people of Belize although he
died on board a British ship moored offshore and never actually set foot on the
land.
Next was the swing bridge built in 1926 in Liverpool and the
only working example of this type of bridge in the world. The Court House was a
magnificent colonial structure, opposite Broodies, a local department store, followed
by Government House opposite the Anglican cathedral built with bricks from
England used as ships ballast which is also the oldest Anglican cathedral in
the Americas.
We were relieved to see Betsy and Seb and we loaded our bags
and set off. Part of the fun of overland travelling is the journey but there
was just an hour of daylight and the rest of the journey was undertaken in the
dark. It was after 8pm when we turned off the road after passing through Belmopan and bumped
along a rough gravel road for 12kms to reach our Equestrian Riding Trails lodge.
We sat down to a meal of curried chicken and crashed out in our cabanas.
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