I should check my spelling before I post something. I don't talk that way-promise. And I did spot the boat the Cubans came in on pulled up behind the police station. I don't know what happened to the Cubans.

Tomorrow i's back to the cold.

These are a couple of shots from diving. The couple holding the nurse shark are brother and sister and from New Orleans.

The wind really picked up here so I'm staying up so I can hear the surf crash on the reef. I don't want to come home. I love Chet and all but I saw some cute dogs the other day and their owner said that it wasn't a problem bringing them back and forth. Oh well......See a lot of you soon.

More birds but tomorrow I go diving

I feel like the woodpecker who is just hanging around. I've rested till I can't rest no more. As someone once or twice said right up until today. Most of the tourists have left the island and gone back to work. I don't feel that need, but am ready to do more than rest, eat, and take pictures of birds.

I go diving tomorrow morning. The water has cleared from the last norther that came through just as we got here. There will be three people diving including me but not the dive master. That's great for me so I won't have to have people in my way. I hope to put some new pictures of turtles that I see tomorrow on the blog. I know they're out there and I think they need a visit.

Nothing much has happened here except the weather is perfect and the water is a beautiful shades of blue with white topping of the reef. I'll be out there tomorrow. Two sailboats have been anchored on the inside of the reef all day. I quess they are diving and visiting. They make me think of my days at sea down here. I have also had some pretty strong thoughts of bringing my boat here and sailing within these islands until I'm too old to do it anymore. I'd have to stop by shore to see Bob once in a while because he wouldn't go on the boat with me.




The orchids grow around Kay's house. I just ask her the name of it and she doesn't know. Maybe one of you will know. There are a couple of different kinds growing and blooming at any given time. They're very small and very beautiful.














This is a statue of a manatee. There are lots of them in the rivers but I've never seen one before. The only river experiences I've had in this country is taking a boat to a Mayan ruin on the coast that was and still is, up a river. We went in a boat with a motor so it scared away birds, manatees, and crocks.
this is a part of the town where some dive boats go out and people sit outside and eat fish.

The man is this picture carved the turtle with the diver riding along on it's back. He also put some rays and fish in on the base. The guy leaning up against the tree is left over from New Years. There are a few that it takes several weeks for them to get over the celebration.

I kinda like the carver's Rasta cap. I may buy a couple for friends but will keep one for myself. I'll be back with a turtle picture tomorrow.

It's New years day and the most quiet I ever heard the Island.

We arrived in San Pedro a little later than we thought. But we're here and snoozing a little today after walking down the beach for lunch.

I've been taking pics of birds as you can see from the two warblers, am I right? Anyway the house is surround with trees that attract all kinds of birds. I've got some great shots of hummingbirds that I will post some day.

Kay has a wedding today and then nothing until after we leave so she will be available to do things with us soon. Not that there is really that much to do. The wind has been terrible since we got here and has just shown promise of getting lighter today. I'll go diving after the water clears up some. Something interesting took place on the island about three days ago. No one would have known anything about it except the online paper got word and published the names and ages of six boat people from Cuba who washed ashore in their boat a few days ago. The article said that they had been detained at the police station and their names recorded and then towed back out into the night and 20 to 30foot seas, then allowed to go on their way. I thought the solution was cruel and surely would mean certain death to anyone in a poor craft with no knowledge of sailing. They were reportedly trying to get to Grand Caman. I've sailed there from Honduras and know that they didn't have a chance with a northerly coming through and no chance of getting anywhere except here with the winds as they were and are today. They have swung around more easterly today after a big rain last night.

I of course, was talking about how great it would have been to interview them and go out in the boat that towed them offshore to send them to their deadly fate. I was seeing their eyes looking back as they rose up on a wave and the police boats search light scanned the faces making sure they were all six accounted for before leaving them to the raging sea. I was really into it until my friend Kay explained how things are done on this island.

It seems that Belize is a friend to Cuba, but they also wouldn't send back people or put them in prison for that matter. No one would go out in those terrible seas anyway. Chances are good that they were taken to the mainland and placed with the many Cuban people who live there. A much better ending, don't you think? No one is talking so I'm going to believe that the story ended the way it should.

The six men were labors and were looking for work. It's bad all over. It is really time to lift the embargo on Cuba so our unemployed won't get mixed in together. Perhaps our unemployed could take off in boats for Cuba where they could cut sugar cane, or help grow rice. Oh my, I'm beginning to recall some of the lobbies against raising the embargo. Oh well, just a little mental exercise.

We're having pizza for dinner, they deliver. It's getting dark.