Jan 2013 - Glover's Atoll, Belize
We spent a week out in a cabana at Glover's Atoll, which is a reef some miles off the coast of Belize. In principle it was to be a week of snorkeling, but we were extremely unlucky and it was cold, rainy, overcast, dark, rough waters, and freezing cold for the entire week we were there. We probably saw the sun for about 10 minutes that week. The cold weather and lack of light made snorkeling much less appealing, so we ended up doing alot of relaxing around the cabana. Which was fine for a few days, but by the end of the week... I've never had such cabin fever in my life. What snorkeling we could do, was quite great. When we were done, we spent on afternoon in Dangriga on our way back to the airport, and to Boston.
We spent a week out in a cabana at Glover's Atoll, which is a reef some miles off the coast of Belize. In principle it was to be a week of snorkeling, but we were extremely unlucky and it was cold, rainy, overcast, dark, rough waters, and freezing cold for the entire week we were there. We probably saw the sun for about 10 minutes that week. The cold weather and lack of light made snorkeling much less appealing, so we ended up doing alot of relaxing around the cabana. Which was fine for a few days, but by the end of the week... I've never had such cabin fever in my life. What snorkeling we could do, was quite great. When we were done, we spent on afternoon in Dangriga on our way back to the airport, and to Boston.
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| Our cabana. It was extremely scenic | Osprey flying through the air | The pair of ospreys back at the nest, which was on top of our cabana |
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| Fish on a reef | A nurse shark. The first time I have ever seen a shark in the wild | A lionfish. Gross! |
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| A large sting ray relaxing in the sand | A small sting ray | A nasty, mean-looking barracuda |
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| A collection of yellowtail snappers | A puffer fish | A swarm of fish |
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| The biggest lobster I have ever seen. I am not exaggerating to say it was the size of a small dog | An osprey bringing back materials for its nest | The osprey was startled, and in turn frightened us! |
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| A friendly black crab | The cabanas over the water | Relaxin back at the cabana. That was most of the week |
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| Dangriga, with pelicans floating down the river | The pelicans fly as a squadron and in a completely synchronized way dive after fish | Dangriga, and a street dog that followed us around for a while |
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| The ocean at Dangriga |