Scott’s Adventures in Belize
Belize Express Water taxi
There are several water taxis in Ambergris Caye. The Belize Express goes to Caye Caulker and Belize City on a two hour schedule, and Chetumal, Mexico and back once a day. Inside the enclosed boat we are shaded from intense sun. We follow the reef as we...
Art is Fishing Husband and wife team
"She likes details," Bruce Cooper says of his wife. Their gallery, in a rented shop on main street in Caye Caulker, presents her art. She paints and he runs the business end of their collaboration. "We sell original art, prints, and small stocking...
Aunties Take Out Local food in Caye Caulker
A few blocks from the water taxi pier, Aunties has a Trip Adviser sticker on the front window. A little Chinese lady behind the window, in an apron, manages customers, makes change, keeps the kitchen help on track. The menu is simple, cheap, good...
Caye Caulker Day trip
Caye Caulker is pronounced "Key Caulker". This small island is to the south of Ambergris Caye on the way back to Belize City. The Belize Water Express brings you to the miniscule port in thirty minutes and a round trip ticket from San Pedro Town is...
Roadhouse New bar in town
There is no lack of bars in San Pedro Town. They come and go like tourists. Some are successful over the long run and others collapse under their own weight. The Legend's location is good, out in the countryside with an unimpeded view of the barrier reef...
Chez Caribe Chez Tortuga
Real estate is booming in San Pedro Town. Jack says, " if you own real estate and aren't keeping it rented you are doing something wrong." Chez Caribe is his old wood and concrete two story house. He lives upstairs and rents six small units...
Captain Shark’s Going Fishing
The ocean is a grocery store. At the end of piers, the tips of jutting land, on bridges or banks, in small boats and large, men shop for dinner. Early today three men are casting from the end of a pier at sunrise. They have been up all night and one...
Belize- Early Morning Friday morning/ Nov 6, 2015
At the end of the pier it is quiet. A few birds face the wind and move reluctantly. It will be hot this afternoon, humid, and the clouds will go away till night when the winds blow them back, like un-anchored sailboats. Early mornings are a good...
Hitch hiking Getting from point A to point B
I haven't seen many thumbs out in San Pedro Town. There are a few people moving in the rain but most of those out this morning are laborers pedaling bicycles to work,tourists driving special golf carts, and taxi's running people to the airport from...
Ak’Bol Yoga Retreat Sanctuary
Ak'Bol was built into a business by a couple who came to Belize twenty years ago with a dream of nature, health, spirit, and capitalism. The entrance is not well announced and if you are driving you will zip right past in your sprint for bigger resorts...
Walking in the Rain North and South San Pedro
This morning, on a walk to the Sir Barry Bowen Bridge that separates north from south Ambergris Caye, I am still in San Pedro Town and take shelter in a bus stand because rain is moving in with dark clouds behind it. San Pedro Town is in the center of...
Martial Arts Morning Lesson 101
Martial arts has moved forward since Bruce Lee dazzled with new fighting styles and choreographed movie fight scenes that are classics. Now, real fighting happens on cable TV and the ancient " Friday night at the fights" has been trounced by MMA cage...
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