Please...No More Rum! Well...i'm slowly making my way down the coast of Belize. Caye Caulker was great. Spent way too much time soaked in rum but made a lot of friends and even managed to get some snorkelling in. Literally ate lobster for every meal. Really liked the Hol Chan marine reserve. Got to touch a stingray and swim with nurse sharks. The only bummer is that my underwater camera doesn't seem to like the water and it broke. So i'm camera-less until I can find somewhere to buy another one. Big boo. Left Caulker a few days ago to [View Full Entry]

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Before i get into how beautiul this beach is, let me start with the negatives. First, it took us for fucking ever to get here! we drove (4hours) from honduras to puerto barrios, a port city in guatemal. We were hoping to catch a boat to punta gorda, belize but we got to puerto barrios too late. puerto barrios was ugly, dirty, hot, full of dust and smog from the freights and buses and there were 10000000 men and like, 2 women. so, we decided to take a trip to livinsgton, guatmala, and stay the night there and leave to belize [View Full Entry]

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http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l262/lordb26/DSC01346.jpg A couple of months ago, a good friend of mine bloged his trip to Europe (what-up Mark) and I found my self checking it almost daily. I’m not saying that you will be that interested in my travel blog, but for the couple of you that will be, here it goes… I’m also doing this because I realized that I have a nice digital camera and an even nicer video camera and I don’t have either pics or vids of my favorite trips and adventures. I went to Idaho last year with Tarik and had an amazing time snowboardi [View Full Entry]

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Lasting all of about 17 hours, my stay in Belize was the briefest of any country yet. A good thing that too as it was at least twice as expensive as any other place I have been thus far, and the local brew (Belikin) was rather flat and flavourless. Despite this damning assessment, my time in Belize was noteworthy for the emotional dockside reunion that took place there between myself and Luke "Nordberg" North. Having not see anyone I knew prior to my departure from Melbourne in around 4 1/2 months, it was fantastic to catch up with one of [View Full Entry]

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I have spent the last week or so in lovely Placencia. It's a small island with long and beautiful beaches. Between afternoon volly ball and late night rum and cokes I've a had a pretty amazing time here. Again, lots of people to meet (and more importantly travel along side for a while). Perhaps the highlight of my travels so far was visiting the jaguar reserve about an hours bus ride away from the island where I stayed for one night. I went as a group of five in total consisting of myself, Therese and Jahn (a genuinely insiring couple from [View Full Entry]

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Belize...home...so familiar...so welcoming...I can't tell you how happy I was when my feet stepped on to Belizean soil. Not that I didn't like Honduras, because I truly did. I was just ready for friends, fellowship, English! So I had a couple of days to relax and do a little trip set up before Jennie and Jason (my co-workers) arrived. The village we were ministering in was Dangriga. A quite, calm village right on the coast. It's about a 2.5 hour drive south of Belize City. And that drive is absolutely gorgeous, driving through mountains passing villages. I was super excited [View Full Entry]

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South Water Caye is part of the South Water Caye Marine reserve. It's home to a huge collection of coral reefs just a half hour boat ride from Dangriga. Our group stayed at the International Zoological Expeditions lodge (IZE) and got classroom instructions on how to identify and evaluate coral health. The beach on the south side of the island was incredible. It had a breath-taking view of Victoria Peak, and the reef could be accessed right from the beach. Other than that, it was a pretty sleepy little island and what time we didn't spend on the beach was out [View Full Entry]

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I'm finally getting to a point in school, where it's so busy I'm overwhelmed. What happened to that vacation I was enjoying!? I will never figure out why professors seem to coincide their most demanding work to be due on the same day/week. By these standards I must procrastinate and update my blog. In other sad news, there will also be no pictures for a while, until I replace my flash drive. Ahhh, technology. Anywho, we are returning from a lovely weekend in Placencia, on the Southern(ish) coast, and the only nice beach on the mainland, so I'm told. All of [View Full Entry]

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Hi there everyone, This is a very short entry since just like the rest of Belize, the internet is really expensive. So, we are here in Placencia and it is a really beautiful place. Everyone in Belize speaks English and they are the friendliest people we have ever met. Everyone says hi when you walk down the street (which is said to be the narrowest street in the world) and they have really great accents. The sand here looks like unrefined sugar and the water is a beautiful turquoise. We feel like we are on vacation from the rest of our [View Full Entry]

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"Hey mahn! Ya mahn." This is the local conversation here in Placencia. Thats right, there's really nothing to talk about. It's so chill, there's no need to ask, "What's up?" because the answer would be the same every time...nothin much, just chillin. After jumping through some hoops to get here (an overnight stay in the dirtiest city ever, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, then an hour boat ride, and then a two-hour local bus ride)--we're finally here. And it was all so worth it. After finding a nice hotel, right off "The Sidewalk" and a foot away from the ocean. "The Sidewalk" is [View Full Entry]

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