Sunday - Bike Ride to town (pics a week late)

Below are pictures of the bike ride to town (a week late, hey I'm busy down here, gimme a break)

Some called me crazy for even attempting this, in fact I have a bet with a local for $50bz ($25us) if I could do it.

I deiced to make it an event and see if others were as crazy as I was! I found 4 suckers, err riders that were up for the challenge. Steve had mad the trip on the bike before, so we knew it could be done. BUT... he had never done it on a beach bike, rather his 21 speed mountain bike,

The Start.... just in case we didn't make it, we started off with a photo

Deep sand and lots of coconuts to dodge along the way.

No one to take my pic, but some of the clan.

Another action shot

The rest of the gang. Look back a few days for a map of our route. I also plan a garmin view that will be available to anyone that wants to view it. This was a 14.84 mile ride, totl time was 2 hours 35 minutes, but that included many stops along the way for pictures, gps readings, etc.

Sunday Bike Ride

Power is about to go out, so I wanted to get this posted real quick... had fun, got up at 6 am, off on a old worn out single speed beach bike.

More later!

Weds Bikin' and Snorklin'

Started off the day beachbikin' to our friends place 1.5 miles north early this morning. I was going to go fishing, but ended up just snorkeling. Saw a huge grouper, a few green morays. I spent an hour or so, then came back to the villa.

I had such a good time, I loaded up the camera, grabbed Dana and Dave, and we headed back. The sun was out and it was a great day, we had a great time. Still learning how this little camera works, but for my second time in the water with it, I was pleased so far. Whadda think?

I ended up swiming all the way to the reef and beyond, then returned back to the beach, and rode back to the villa.

All in all, I think I hit about 6 miles on the bike and 3 hours or so snorkling. I gotta tell ya, I think I like thsi physical activity much better than riding the bike trails and walking in Kansas!



Grey Angel on the Reef




Damel (I think) next to some coral.

Tues Bike Ride

Some of the fruit here.


Fish Tacos!

I headed North on the beach, then west via the old nova shrimp place on the bike. got attacked by dogs at Nova, but escaped unharmed. The bike ride continued on through the jungle, I stopped to turn around at the swamp, and was going to take some pics, but I was worried that the mosquitoes were going to carry me off, and this was with a generous portion of OFF applied. I turned the bike around and started moving, finally after I worked up some speed and got out of the undercover, most of them were gone.

Sorry no pics of the jungle ride, but felt pretty good to get away mostly unscathed.

Total jungle ride 5.62 miles today.

Map of Ambergris Caye

This is a picture of Ambergris Caye map, I left it full size, so you can zoom in. I am in the Basil Jones region, and plan to ride an old very used single speed bike to San Pedro, the town. Should be 16 miles of so one way. We'll cheat and use the boat to get the bikes back home.

Looks like several other may join me. I plan to gps / photograph my way.