Christmas in Silk Cayes
Wednesday – Christmas Day! As usual, I’m up first. I make the coffee and sit here at the second floor deck and watch the sunrise while catching up on news and email. I could get used to this. The house we are staying in can be broken up into about six separate living spaces and sometimes she rents out sections as longer term rentals. We’ve met so many people that escaped to here and opened ice cream shops or restaurants … it is tempting.
Second dive trip was today, this time to the Silk Cayes. It’s little closer so we were able to start later. Plus we only had two dives, then a bit of a snorkel at a place well known for turtles and rays – I saw the turtle but I missed the ray but I think everyone else saw it. Rhiannon went on both of the dives. She worried about the sinus headache but in the end she couldn’t resist. She hasn’t had a recurrence of the terrible headache.
This time we saw a lot more large fish for some reason – including a nurse shark that was as big as Alex. Tony couldn’t get a picture of the shark and Alex together. The camera doesn’t have a lot of range.
After our two dives and before our snorkel they dropped us off at a teeny little caye. An amazing tiny little dot of sand and trees in the middle of a turquoise sea. We ate our Christmas dinner there at a picnic table and I’ve never enjoyed Christmas dinner more. We were all ravenously hungry and it was just the BEST meal! Another group on the boat with us was spear fishing lionfish and they got something like 50 of them. One of our hosts/dive masters cleaned all of them off the back of the boat on the way back. He had quite a large sack of filets when he was done! The kids all crashed out on the boat.
We stopped off in the Village for another seaweed shake. We love them plus we love the couple from Oregon who have opened that coffee & smoothie shack. They are expanding, even. A great story. We will all independently go give them a trip advisor review and we hope it will bump them from their coveted and recently achieved #2 position to NUMERO UNO.
We went home to wash our gear and ourselves. Everybody sprawled out for a bit, then finally we mustered up the energy to pull out the bicycles and pedal back into the village to eat at Rumfish, a truly elegant place with an amazing menu. We had two kids of ceviche (both very good) and most of us had the lobster cannellini that was on special along with the Christmas Rum Punch. Pumpkin Pie cheesecake for desert.
Tony and Rhiannon and I pedaled straight home, the four A’s were thinking of bar hopping but I’m not sure how long they stayed out and about. I was asleep before my bicycle was properly perched in its kickstand.
