Nearly There...

Fish guts

mihai — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 05:24:08 +0000

Ahh, the day of the fishing trip. It was slightly overcast but fine and warm other wise. We were told to turn up at 8am and were there but Roly, the skipper, didn’t turn up until half an hour later and after another half hour of loading the boat, we were off at 9am.
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Top of the Tree Tops

mihai — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:01:09 +0000

Our uncomfortable night at Rubys guest house at San Pedro continued into the morning when around 5am, the Americans were noisily up and about preparing for a tour or trip out diving. There was no consideration. Tiredness was fraing Eugene’s temper to the max. I think it was from hereon that we began our new game of counting the amount of times “awesome!” would be said in conversation.
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Ambling to Ambergis Caye

mihai — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:47:10 +0000

Linden picked us up again in his cool car to take us off to Ambergis Caye. It was another short flight but you could see the ocean floor from way up in the sky.
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The Belize City brief

mihai — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:49:19 +0000

We had an early start in Dangriga. The taxi driver, good ole Gifford,who’d taken us to the Pelican Beach Resort the night before, had promised to pick us up at 7am to take us to the little airstrip at Dangriga but as time ticked on, we started to get rather worried that he wasn’t turning up. Eug was half way down the road to find another taxi when he turned up full of apologies for being late.
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Dire Dangriga

mihai — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:15:18 +0000

We chose to spend a night in Dangriga as it sounded fairly interesting in the guide books and we wanted to break up our journey from Punta Gorda to Belize City.
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Adios Guatemala

mihai — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:28:29 +0000

Leaden skies belied the fact this was the Carribean we were bouncing our way across on the good boat ‘Preciosa’. Looking back beyond our skipper for the day, Carlos, I could just make out the dark jungle clad land mass of Guatemala slipping away behind a wall of spray and heavy swell, while ahead, etched in a steely grey foreboding sky were the southern mountains of Belize, our next destination.
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Rio Dulce - Hotel Catamaran 1 Jan’06

mihai — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:50:30 +0000

After our exciting New Years Eve (!?!?!), we were ready to have a good day with the hand fishing line from our balcony. Even in the shallows there were lots of fish of various sizes, waiting for our hook.
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Rio Dulce - Hotel Catamaran 31 Dec ‘05

mihai — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:35:22 +0000

After a good night’s kip we went off for breakfast. The “Benny Hill” music continued to play but at least there were some people around - we were not alone! Most people appeared to be from the United States and we think that most of them were mooring their boats here, not actually staying in the “sheds”.
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Rio Dulce - Hotel Catamaran 30 Dec’05

mihai — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 07:59:00 +0000

Rio Dulce sounded like a cool place to spend New Year. The Hotel Catamaran sounded good from the Lonely Planet - somewhere where we could chill out for a few days.
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Copan to Rio Dulce

mihai — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:38:30 +0000

Our penultimate day of 2005 was going to be fairly chilled. We had a lazy breakfast (with Deet this time), after Eugene had run down the batteries of the camera trying to get a picture of the hummingbirds. Eugene spent the morning updating the blog and I almost finished another book. Our shuttle bus was booked through a tour agency in town for 1pm and it arrived already quite full with other tourists.
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