http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston Eug & Em in Central & South America Mon, 09 Jan 2006 05:24:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/fish-guts.html 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 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/top-of-the-tree-tops.html 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. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/ambling-to-ambergis-caye.html 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 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/the-belize-city-brief.html 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. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/dire-dangriga.html 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 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/adios-guatemala.html 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. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/rio-dulce-hotel-catamaran-1-jan06.html 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 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/rio-dulce-hotel-catamaran-31-dec-05.html 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. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/rio-dulce-hotel-catamaran-30-dec05.html 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 ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/baston/copan-to-rio-dulce.html