Re-visiting
Western Caribbean Coast/Carlos Pueblo
Early
February after just 11 days from my last trip to the Eastern Caribbean
Islands, I
went back to Cruise Ship Dawn for the re-visiting of the Western
Caribbean
Coast including Harvest Caye of Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel
of Mexico,
on the way the ship passed Orcho Rios of Jamaica and Grand
Cayman
Island where I first visited just two months ago on Jade. I enjoyed
so much of
the acquaintance of the Ship and some of them thought that I
never got
off the Ship because that was so closed for two routes.
Ocho Rios is
the same. I got off the ship and marched follow my previous
route the
Turtle River Park visiting my beloved fruit trees, the bread tree,
mangos, and
Jamaican Apple, etc. A young staff of the park promised me
twice to
pick the bread fruit which was hanging on the branch of a tall tree.
I came back
to the park after visiting an open vegetable and fruits market
and decided
not to wait until 2 pm for the show. I did see the Jamaican
Apple on the
street and market. It looks like Bell Fruit in Taiwan or Syzygium
in academic
which is one of my favorite in my childhood time.
Harvest Caye
is a private developed island by the same cruise company for
the destination.
There are 75 acres with the most update tourist facility,
beautiful
beaches, swimming pool, butterfly spring house, flight house,
parrot cage,
and plenty of tropical trees including mango. There was a brief
rain and the
weather was chilly.
Costa Maya
is with a face lift on the pier, as a matter of fact, it becomes a
big visitors
center with plenty of shops and cultural demonstration such as
Mayan costume
and the rope flying persons on a tall pole, etc. I marched
out of the
compound toward the downtown and saw some ancient ruins
far away. I
did reach a certain residential area closed to the beach; however
, the
weather was warm and I didn’t dare to stay too long.
Cozumel is
the third time to visit and I can feel that the city become very
attractive, the
shops on the coastal line avenue, the city square park and
the additional
inside stores and residential area. I got 4 small plastic cups
shots of
Tequila in two liquor stores for free tasting, each cup was about
3 ml. yet
were still very impressive; therefore, I went back to observe two
cocktail seminars
on the ship. I also got a help form a local young man to
locate a
malva nut tree, sterculia in academic, and found the mature fruits
. This is a
herb medicine drink to sooth the throat that I attempted to impress
my beloved
daughter, Shirley the newly promoted Cruise Director. It seemed
that she
lost her voice. I learned from a Chinese scholar working in Dallas while
I took them
to walk on Cozumel streets on my 2nd trip to the city. He pointed it
out the name
of the fruits on the trees and I instantly remembered the day I was
a new
teacher at the high school. The school prepared the tea from this fruits to
help new
teachers to recover their lost voice due to continuous talking in the class.
Local calls
it Jojieara which only the native Mayan consume them.
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