Belize Day 2

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Cloudy here this morning, but has improved as the day goes on. Right now sunshine, blue skies and 80 degrees. Did 2 dives today with Reef Adventures (great dive outfit if anyone is coming this way to dive.......ask for Michael). I realized one of my goals today and killed my first Lionfish!!! For those of you who think I'm some kind of barbarian with a goal to kill a fish, you need to understand that the Lionfish are killing the reef fish in the Carribean. They are quite beautiful as you can see by the picture but they lay 20-30,000 eggs per month and eat 10-20X their body weight a day. They are a spiny, venomous fish that eat fry (baby fish) and which of course greatly reduces the numbers of the Carribean reef fish. So for me, killing Lionfish is a quest I'm not soon to give up.

It is really quite beautiful here, and the people are the friendliest people I have ever met. They seem to survive by selling their street wares and local cuisine. Prices in the grocery stores are very high, for instance a small jar of peanut butter is $5.40 and a bag of potato chips is over $6.00.

Well until tomorrow......................................

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Photos

Dead Lionfish
Dead Lionfish on the end of my spear.