Elaine's Pictures

This was downtown San Pedro and this woman was making tortillas right there on the street



This was the big night hotspot downtown

We were quite impressed with this lady, carrying a bundle on her head and her child in her arms
More scenes from our Goff's Caye Island lunch adventure

This is where we caught the water taxi
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Kayaking at Costa Maya Resort

On the last day, we decided to kayak around the resort.
Nothing to worry about, I passed advanced canoeing at YMCA Camp.
Lois wanted to go for a ride, too.

Last Stop on the Tour - Caye Caulker

The end of our big adventure day was a stop at this island. It is much more primitive than Ambergris Caye as AC has brick paved streets and these are all dirt roads. Took a quick walk down Main Street Caye Caulker, then headed for the boat dock.

Our last site of the day was to play with the sea horses from the mangroves. Did you know that the male sea horse carries the young and gives the live birth?
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Snorkling With Stingray and Nurse Shark

Two Fish Two Beer. Our tour guide bartered the fish to use a chum when we got to the snorkling spot.
Here is the guide holding up one of the rays
Geranimo! And in I go

Wow, here comes the nurse shark my way
And right past me
Really, time for me to get out
Quite an experience

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Lunch at Goff's Caye Island

After seeing the manatee, we traveled to this little gem, a beautiful pristine little island for lunch. Looks like something out of a commercial, doesn't it?

Before our chicken, potato, vegetables, and cupcake lunch, we snorkled around the island
Good snorkling, too. Here is a flounder.
Lois waves hi.


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The Manatee Watch

Our all day tour started at the Marine Reserve where we watched for manatees.
The water is very shallow and the manatees feed off the roots of the sea grass. The only way to find them is look for the discarded sea grass floating on the surface. While they are feeding, they surface for air about every minute.
This is all you see of them, just their snout coming out of the water, taking a breath and going back in.
Still, it was neat and interesting

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Our First Excursion Into San Pedro

Was in the evening for dinner and to walk around town. It was too hot to go during the day, so we went in the late afternoon and it was still plenty hot. This headboard was inside one of the shops that we visited. Woodworking seems to be a living for a number of people and they really do seem to be artists
This is at the restaurant and Lois is showing off her shrimp. The dishes were prepared by a true chef, another artist
Key Lime Pie. Yummo!
This sign was on the way out of one of the gift shops near the water taxi dock

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Central America Travels

The puddle jumper airplane that I co-piloted was this one
After we landed, we took a taxi to the super market in San Pedro. We had to get groceries for the week along the way to the motel as there were no grocery stores or Circle K's around the resort. We bought only American food and lots of Coke Light, which is what they call diet there
We then took the auto taxi to the water taxi and took the water taxi to our resort
And here is our condo that was home for the week
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Marshall Co-Pilots the Puddle Jumper

From Belize City Airport, you can get to the island of Ambergris Caye by boat or puddle jumper, which is a little cramped airplane. With seating full, I got to ride in the co-pilot seat and did my best to keep my hands off everything and generally stay out of trouble.

Here was the instruments in front of me
This is the Belize Rain Forest that we flew over
I guess I did the job as the co-pilot
We got to Ambergris Caye and, as they say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one
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Touchdown in Belize City Airport

We went from Akron Canton to Charlotte NC to Belize City. We were not in the airport very long as we had one more flight, but more about that in a minute. Here are the beautiful ladies, tired, but happy that the long flight was over.

Here was my first glance outside at Belize
And, here I am chillin' with the Big Kahuna


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Ambergris Caye, Belize, Central America Adventure

Here we are very, very early at Akron Canton Airport last Saturday to board our plane. We look pretty good for being up at 3:00 in the morning.

Here is what we arrived to, a tropical paradise. This was the view outside our balcony deck
This is the view outside the restaurant deck
Here we are getting ready to leave paradise and come back to Ohio

Here is our friend, Ashner the Concierge of the Costa Maya Resort. Ashner took good care of us all week and made sure that whatever we wanted or needed, we got. This young man has a bright future ahead of him in business with the excellent customer service and humor that he provides.
To be continued