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Belize – Dec 2002 to Jan 2003

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We headed north from Honduras to the island of San Pedro, Belize--the island Madonna sang about in her song "La Isla Bonita" (the beautiful island).




 

 

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In San Pedro, the streets are covered with sand and people mainly get around on foot, on bicycle and some even rent golf carts.



 

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During our week on San Pedro, we went snorkeling a few times and saw beautiful and colorful fish and live corals reefs. We also got to swim with, pet and feed manta rays that varied in size from a 1 to 5 feet from wing tip to wing tip. There were also harmless nurse sharks as seen in this picture.


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The front street of San Pedro (the island is so small there are only 3 main streets and until recently they were simply called front, middle and back street). Here you can see the kids, in the white and blue uniforms, getting out of school.


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In Belize, like Livingston, the main language is English (again, spoken with a Jamaican sounding accent) and the community is mainly black. Here the Punta Boyz are performing, a very popular local band who played punta and reggae music.



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One day we went on an all-day boat tour where we looked for Manatees in a nature preserve off the coast of Belize City, the country's capital; then we swam with a school of manta rays, and snorkeled around and then had lunch on this little island an hour from San Pedro.


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The island of Caye Caulker.









Caye Caulker

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As you can see, San Pedro was a hard place to leave, but we did after a great week there.