Today was a planned free day for most of the group. Suzie, has been so lovely & has organised us an 'amazing race' challenge around the island, which involves a list of things we need to do & find, with photographic proof in a time limit.
At 11am we all met downstairs & split into 3 groups, before we were given the list of challenges & rules. The group's are random, so Tom & I were on opposing teams.
It was great fun, very good for team building & fiercely competitive.
Some of the things we needed to do was find the different signs that said "go slow", a common thing to see in Caye Caulker.
Find certain places like the sea horse conservation, the bakery, police station & animal shelter.
There was a lot of interactions with the locals such as playing basketball, hugs & getting them to quote "this is unbelizeable" with us.
There was a few embarrassing things like getting the whole group to pile into a boat & sing 'The yellow submarine' while dancing & bonus points for collecting bags of rubbish.
Our team collected a total of 15 bags of rubbish!
Two & a half hours went by so quickly & we only just finished the challenges & got back on time.
The point scoring was very close, unfortunately we got penalised for having 1 extra person on our team. A guy called Rob, who was quite hungover & arrived late, but didn't want to miss out on all the fun. Sadly, our team didn't win... but it was all good fun & a really good way to see the island.
Following this we all put on our bathers & walked back up to the other end of the island near the split. Here we all ate lunch, drank cheap buckets of beer, swam in the ocean, danced our asses off & played volleyball. It was such a great day & only ended with the rapid & aggressive onset of thousands of mosquitos & sand flies appearing. We all raced back to the hostel & straight onto the roof top for more rum punch & to celebrate our last night on the island of Caye Caulker.
- Alli
At 11am we all met downstairs & split into 3 groups, before we were given the list of challenges & rules. The group's are random, so Tom & I were on opposing teams.
It was great fun, very good for team building & fiercely competitive.
Some of the things we needed to do was find the different signs that said "go slow", a common thing to see in Caye Caulker.
Find certain places like the sea horse conservation, the bakery, police station & animal shelter.
There was a lot of interactions with the locals such as playing basketball, hugs & getting them to quote "this is unbelizeable" with us.
There was a few embarrassing things like getting the whole group to pile into a boat & sing 'The yellow submarine' while dancing & bonus points for collecting bags of rubbish.
Our team collected a total of 15 bags of rubbish!
Two & a half hours went by so quickly & we only just finished the challenges & got back on time.
The point scoring was very close, unfortunately we got penalised for having 1 extra person on our team. A guy called Rob, who was quite hungover & arrived late, but didn't want to miss out on all the fun. Sadly, our team didn't win... but it was all good fun & a really good way to see the island.
Following this we all put on our bathers & walked back up to the other end of the island near the split. Here we all ate lunch, drank cheap buckets of beer, swam in the ocean, danced our asses off & played volleyball. It was such a great day & only ended with the rapid & aggressive onset of thousands of mosquitos & sand flies appearing. We all raced back to the hostel & straight onto the roof top for more rum punch & to celebrate our last night on the island of Caye Caulker.
- Alli
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