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.

Tues Update, Early!!

Was up about 4 am, did a little slingbox video, then a short 30 min nap, back up at 645. Off snorkeling by 715. Was feeling pretty brave with my skills, until... I was on a tour underwater and was snooping under the coral gardens looking for lobster when I came face to face with a big shark! Totally unexpected, and really didn't plan on my face being about 1 foot away from HIS face... glad he was sleeping and decided not to be aggressive, in fact I pointed him out to Dave a few minutes later.

Later, I saw yet another shark, this one a little bigger, estimated about 5 feet long. Assuming it like the other was a nurse shark, sleeping in the strong current flow through the cut.

Like the first one, didn't seem to mind me invading its territory, which is a good thing, because I am sure I can't out swim a shark, regardless how much weight I have lost!

Back to the beach, re-geared up with fishing gear, replacing our masks and snorkels.

Ohh, we also picked up a local, Antonio who lives in the area, and is our source for sardines. Here, sardines are king for bait. Now time to cut bait or fish!

Fish we did, well after walking a about 500 yards out to a small coral patch.

This coral patch was pretty productive, me and Dave holding our reels and poles above the water as we waded out, Antonio with his gear on his wrist. His gear was a roll of line, a hook and a weight. Plus the all important sardines.

The water we were standing in was so deep that we'd have to reach up to cast, only to be put to shame by Antonio doing a lasso type movement that landed his rig much further than our expensive setups.

I'm not sure who caught the most or the biggest fish, mostly snapper, but if you know Dave, you'll have to ask him about him dropping his pole in the water and his inability to easily retrieve it.

I made the comment that I normally had to pay for a comedy show, but this one was free and I was catching fish at the same time! We were all laughing so hard.

Ended up the trip about 5 hours later, way to much sun, but glad that I was in my long sleeve shirt and jungle hat. My cheeks and nose were about all that got a little to much sun.

Returned to home base and cleaned the fish, has fresh snapper tacos and salad. Now relaxing, and getting ready for the rest of the week.

Scorecard: 3 miles of riding, 1 hour of snorkeling and several hours of fishing.

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!

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.

Weds - Photo Op,long walks on the beach, Night Snorkeling

Today was a day away from town. Walks / ride the bike both north and south of the villa.

Yes, that boat has Kansas registration! I would like to know what stories it could tell, some 1500 miles away.

The tackle box bar at Tranquillity Bay resort has all natural, local mahogany!

Four-plex!

Dr. Greg Smith, marine biologist, aka The Turtleman, and his new daughter.

Farm raised shrimp from the beer distributor. At the time of this writing, $40bz for 2kg (4.4lbs). Add some butter, some fresh garlic, a little heat, garnish with lime, and this is what you get!

First time I have ever seen conch fencing!

Shipwrecked Jayhawker?

Are you an eel or a fish?

Not sure what species this is...

View from the beech