Blogs from Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 89

I throw around the word incredible so often in my blog. But I mean it every time. And I especially mean it when I say today was incredible. A note about work: I have a really low percentage of teens turning out to the club this week. But those who are coming regularly are so wonderful. We only do some of my formal activities, but we’re always hanging out and chatting and laughing and playing various games. A couple nights ago we went to see the theatre show together: Singing With The Big Band, a tribute to Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. It’s my favourite show - great music, fantastic swing dances and the feature singer, Christopher Allan Graves, has a phenomenal voice. We sat right front and centre and Christopher noticed them all and ... read more

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 on the reefs. This place was amazing.... read more

I picked up this book called “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova in the Cancun airport without knowing what it was about. It ended up being this amazing book (so far) that is along the lines of “Da Vinci Code”. Instead of following the bloodline of Jesus through Western Europe, this book follows the history of Vlad the Impaler (the real-life Count that was the basis of Bram Stoker’s Dracula character) through Eastern Europe. About 100 pages into the book I came across this quote that pretty much sums up why I always have to go somewhere new every time I travel. “…I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to a traveler: the longing to seek out a place for a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the ... read more

Blogger Bec Well here we are in the wonderful Caye Caulker, an island off Belize (Check out our map if you don't know where we are!!). We are now travelling with our tour group, having come from Cancun in Mexico down into Belize. We caught the sea taxi out to Caye Caulker yesterday afternoon and have spent today snorkelling in the reef about ten minutes boat ride out from our hotel on the beach. First stop was Ray Alley where up to 15 sting rays were swimming around us in maybe 6 feet of water. The colour was immaculate. The guide was great but I wasn't too keen on how they feed the rays in order for them to stay around. He was also touching them and I just find that contradictorary to the whole ... read more

I am falling in love with the country of Belize. It is so beautiful and there is so much to see and do there. It’s the port I’ll see the most frequently over the course of my contract and I’m delighted. Bright and early (7:30am, after a long night out at the guest disco the night before), I left for a shore excursion. Ricky, one of the production dancers, went with me. The tour was phenomenal. We went in a motor boat and cruised along the coast line, then for 24 km down the Rio (River) Wallace. The scenery was stunning. Lush tropical trees, plants and palms lined the river. The water was so still it looked like a long sheet of glass cutting through the land. The scenery reflected perfectly on the water. The clouds ... read more