I’ve mentioned before that I have an Olympus Stylist Tough 8010 for underwater photography. While the photos have always been a great source of memories for me, they have never been great quality. I worried that I had purchased the wrong underwater camera when I compared my photos to some of the photos published by […]
On Friday I took my dogs, Kinley and Aker, in for their spring haircuts. Now just a few days later Mother Nature has decided that winter is not over yet. I feel deflated by the sight of the one to two inches of snow in my backyard. I wake up Kinley and Aker. Even they […]
When Nowal, a snorkeling guide in Hopkins, took us out to the Belize Barrier Reef I didn’t expect to go birding as well. But that’s just what we did. After spending all day in the water enjoying the beautiful fish and coral, he said we’d be going to Bird’s Caye on our way back to […]
Here are some of my photos from Hopkins. We enjoyed talking to the Peace Corp volunteer working at Miss Bertie’s Library and thoroughly enjoyed the young boys of Lebeha Drumming.
I never intended for my blog to be about food, but as I’ve said before I love food. And travel includes a lot of new and loved food experiences. I already told you about our lobster feasts and traditional Belizean Stewed Chicken yumminess, but I actually ate some other interesting and great tasting dishes in […]
One of my missions for this trip to Belize was to enjoy more traditional food. I started with the most logical option…finding the best Belizean Stewed Chicken with Rice and Beans. In the first week of my stay in Belize I probably ate WAY MORE Stewed Chicken with Rice and Beans than any human should, […]
We had the opportunity to see the Garifuna drummers while we were in Hopkins at the Lebeha Drumming Center. They are Belizean National Champions. The type of drumming they do is traditional Garifuna and Punta Rock. The group drumming for us were 12-13 years old. We also got the extra treat of their instructors joining […]
Note: Resolution on all of these photos has been lowered for easier uploading. Higher resolution photos will be posted to my Flickr account (alaskagirlatheart) at a later date. Yesterday was the first absolutely gorgeous day since we arrived in Belize a week ago. The day before was pretty nice too, but the water was still […]
Today we arrived in Hopkins about mid day after a very enjoyable ride with Danielia. Just like San Ignacio it’s been raining like heck here which is not common for this time of year. The locals are getting a bit stir-crazy and my guess is that the tourists are not very happy about it either. […]
