Eric (left) and Clifford - Our Fishing Guides from Uprising Tours
All the hesitant feelings changed when we met our guides, Clifford, and Eric, who doubled as the boat’s captain. Though we had been on Ambergris Caye for only three days we immediately recognized Clifford whom we had met at Baller’s Barbershop on our first day downtown shopping around. Neither looked like the guides you see on the ESPN Sunday morning celebrity fishing shows. Eric had multiple tribal band tattoos, earrings, a Bellikin beer ballcap and a t-shirt with a “Mary Juana” logo on the back. Clifford was sporting his own earrings and a Columbia soccer t-shirt. Their bare feet and attire gave them a modern day “Pirates of the Caribbean” appearance, which Patricia and Erina easily related to as they are big fans of the movie (read Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom here), and had the affect of putting them both at ease. Also, Clifford and I had hit it off pretty well at the barber shop while talking fishing so I was confident we were being well-guided for our first day of relaxing fishing, snorkeling and sunshine.
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