Jenna on cave tubing (from Day 3)

Today we went tubing in the caves at Jaguar Paw. It was a lot of fun but rather challenging. You see, we had to trek though the jungle to get to the place in which we would start the cave tubing. The walk was really long but we saw some interesting things along the way. There were a lot of termite mounds, lines of marching leaf-cutter ants, and spiky give-and-take trees. It was raining on us most of the walk up there so the way was really slippery. I actually fell twice… though nobody else fell. That’s probably because I was in the front and they knew where to be careful. Hahaha.
Before we went cave tubing we went up another trail to what they called “Cave Six.” There was a nice pool of water there that was quite deep. Mostly everyone climbed up this high cliff and jumped off into the water. It was really high and kind of scary at first, but it ended up being really fun.
After swimming and diving at Cave Six we went back down to the place where we would start tubing. We all had to wear head lights because it was dark, it was really cool. We paddled through all the caves and sometimes we could take a break through the “rapids.” They weren’t really rapids, it was just faster water because it was shallower. A few of us hit our butts on the rocks because it was shallower and faster.
In the end it was so worth the long treacherous walk because it was really cool to be floating through some caves in Belize. It was one of my favorite things we have done so far. Actually everything has been great! Belize is so much of fun! I love it!