We had our last breakfast with Ian, Kate and the 3 cats and left Hickatee Cottages. A brief stop in the PG hospital to get some more antibiotics and have the wound checked and then down to the Wilma Wonka chocolate factory.
The first people known to have made chocolate were the ancient cultures of Mexico and The Maya were the first people known to have made chocolate and mixed ground cacao seeds with various seasonings to make a spicy, frothy drink. Later, the Spanish conquistadors brought the seeds back home to Spain, where new recipes were created. And chocolate, or the growing of cacao is still big business in the Toledo district. Most of the product going to Green And Black’s for their fabulous organic chocolate. To try it in it’s place of origin is special.
Then 100 miles up the Southern highway in the reverse direction to the Stann Creek district where we stopped to look at the water taxi to Placencia at Mango Creek.
And then to the village of Hopkins and our home for the next two days at the beach cabanas of Beaches & Dreams. This is the view from our room.
And this is my new office.
Supper was in the Barracuda Bar & Grill, part of the hotel, and then bed to the sound of the ocean 30 feet away.
Tuesday has dawned cloudy and today could be jaguar’s in the Jaguar Preserve or Ludlum on the beach.
