Belize bound

Up early and out the door at 5:30 via the Stouts. Sharon was sweet and brought me a luggage tag as the rest all had one. THANK YOU :)

Our 8:30 am flight to Belize was 5 hours; I watched Central Intelligence and we both watched Peanut Butter Falcon. We landed 35 minutes early at 3 pm local time, it took 1 hour to get thru immigration with time for a quick cold beer then on the island hopper flight. 15 minutes to Dangriga where Manuel was waiting. 45 minutes to Hopkins with a stop at gas station for another cold beer.

Citrus orchards, oranges used to be the number 1 resource but now it is tourism

Most of the horses we saw were well fed. The lush tropical grasses must be the reason.

After checking into our Buttonwood Guest House, we were off to eat at Jalapeños - not recommend for burgers (18 BZD plus $4 pineapple and $3 cheese/bacon) and margarita, S had the jalepeno margarita (15-18 BZ) not worth $45 USD!

The guest house had this sweet note, flower petals all over the bed and a lovely fruit plate waiting for us on our arrival. XOXO

Stock photos I found online; our room; Southwater, is the balcony below the upper deck with Stouts in Blueground; being 2nd floor behind the tree lower left on the photo.

Donna and Les picked us up after 8, met the Stouts for a quick hello then we were off on our bioluminescent tour with Happy Go Lucky Tours (which happens to be Les & Donna's daughter and son in law who run it). It was well worth $70 USD /couple seeing the water light up like lightening or glittery diamonds in your hand. Pictures were almost impossible to get in the dark. They dropped us back at the guest house at 10:30 pm after a very long busy but fabulous day. Thanks Donna for all your insider tips and information to get us here as well as while we are here and for the evening of catching up.

From the Happy Go Lucky website

Nocturnal Bioluminescence River 

Set out after dark to explore the beautiful and peaceful Sittee River under a sky full of stars. Belize has many nocturnal creatures that come out after dark to the riverside to eat and drink from the river. Use high powered flashlights to spot the eyeshine of crocodiles, kinkajou, coatimundi, raccoons, birds, resting iguanas, and much more! The second part of this tour involves cruising through a hand cut path from the river into the mangroves where you can spot resting bats on the sides of the trees and then out into the Anderson's Lagoon which boasts bioluminescent plankton that lights up with any disturbance in the water. It is magical to see fish darting away from predators and the boat as you cruise along. The water also glows behind the boat as the prop wash activates the chemical reaction which causes the plankton to light up. This is so interesting and intriguing to visitors that a swim in these waters is almost irresistible.