Welcome to Belize!
Here are a few pictures from our trip.
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The (almost) full cast of characters.
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Pepe, the number two hermit crab on the island. Give that winner a kiss.
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Good form, papa. That looks like neutral buoyancy for sure.
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Ralph. Divemaster.
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The remora (aka the sharksucker). I have a video of this that I'll try to post later.
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How great is this sign?! So creative.
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The wharf at Placencia.
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Lots of divers...no whale sharks.
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Night Hiking at Cockscomb Nature Preserve.
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Caves Branch, Ian Anderson's Lodge
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GIANT spider, so big in fact, that it eats fish.
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Fertility goddess, caves branch.
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On the way to Black Rock Lodge, Cayo District.
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Fuzzy. :(
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Life is pretty good right now.
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Mom's tube decided to deflate halfway down the river.
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Going over the falls at Black Rock Lodge.
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Bats!! (Of the fruit eating variety). We also saw one vampire bat. Very Cool.
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Mercedes, the sneaky horse. She kept turning around to give me the hairy eyeball stare.
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So, I seem to attract animals. I shared my bed the first night at Black Rock Lodge with a cute little mouse named Phillip. The second night I went to put on a pair of shorts that I had hung up to dry outside and discovered this guy. Of course, I only found him
after I had put my shorts on. It was a surprising discovery, to say the least.
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Mama.
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This is how dad spent most of the trip.
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This is me! Look at those buff arms! That girl must have been on the crew team for eight years.
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Papa, hanging out on a log.
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Oh, how I wish this picture was in focus! It's a rail, right mom?
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Black vulture.
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The butterfly house at Chaa Creek Lodge. They raised blue morphos,
morpho pleides.
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At the Pacific Science Center, we used pins to attach the pupae to the boards. They use tape, which doesn't look as good.
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Yep, I like bugs.
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Cicada pics. Slightly overexposed but cool nonetheless.
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This was called an aquatic toad. Giant.
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This, my friends, is the snake that I almost stepped on right outside our cabana. It was at least four feet long!
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Karin at Vaca Falls
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white hawk (slightly fuzzy. It's hard balancing both the binos and the camera at the same time)
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cicada.
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I wonder what type of butterfly this will be...