today in belizean stuff

[moominmolly]

Slow internet makes me too impatient to post, but here are a few pictures:

Me holding a snake at the Belize Zoo. The Belize Zoo is entirely filled with recycled animals -- ones that for some reason could not make it in the wild. Either they were orphaned and discovered, or injured, or reclaimed from people who'd tried to keep them as pets, or some other similar fate that left them unable to survive outside of a zoo. And they are all native to Belize, so the zoo is actually able to say "these animals are all in their native habitat" and NOT BE LYING. Sort of the coolest zoo ever. Anyway, SNAKES ON A ME:



Snakes on a David:



Snakes on a Vitalino, our Belizean guide at the zoo and later on the cave tubing expedition. He was awesome. It was hot, and he claimed to be cooling off with the snake. I think he just liked nuzzling it.



Our hotel in Belize City:



Our hotel on Ambergris Caye:



The cave we went tubing through (for a few miles):



Gratuitous Tapir Shot:



One of the Wacky Canadians who lured us along to the zoo and cave tubing, pretending to be a spider monkey:



David, rockin' the innertube look:



A tarantula protecting her egg (just making you click through to that one in case you don't like spiders)


And, at the end of the day, surprise flowers strewn all over our bed, with a bottle of dragonfruit wine, a corkscrew, and two wine glasses. And a note from spike saying "Welcome to Scotland". I like that guy.



So now we're hanging out on the island and poking about today, having a lazy day after diving and snorkeling yesterday and getting glorious sunburns. Tomorrow if we're lucky we'll take another boat trip. But the main agenda of the day: trying to figure out if we can actually get to Scotland after all!