Belize Fun Facts - You know you have been living in Belize a while when you catch your self using the word like pirate as a search term while trying to find something in a gmail search. Today I wanted to post just one picture so I set off in search of an image that visually represents why I love living on Ambergris Caye. I went to my stock folder and found the pics from when Dick and I went driving down sou ...

Today's tacogirl blog guest post comes from Lucy Wallingford,  she has a unique story to tell as she has been involved with Belize since the 80's and seen a lot of changes over the years.  You will be hearing more from Lucy in future guest posts. We first thought about running the Caves Branch River in the mid 1980’s. This was the only underground river run we had ever heard of. We had some basic informatio ...

9:00am What a morning I just spent the last 3 h editing pictures and I am not even close to done. I still have finish sorting my Sony Cybershot pics for today's post, unload my Olympus stylus and get Saturdays pool pics and yesterdays bikini shots sorted and edited. Back to sorting pics so I can get them posted and move onto the next thing. 11:00am Half way there on getting pictures up. As you can see we ha ...

I had the best intentions to get to Corozal this week but it did not work out. Instead  I found myself back on a Tropic Air Cessna Caravan headed to Municipal Airport so I could do some shopping in Belize City yesterday. I decided to walk around a bit more near Save U so I could see what other places I might want to add to my route fpr future. First stop was a pinata and housewares store - I scored a couple ...

WordPress Photo Gallery is now installed and working click a pick to see slideshow - ty tacoboy. 8:12 am - The other day Heather asked me to take a sunset picture for her after I was describing how cool it was a - big pinkish orange ball - by the time I grabbed my camera and went back out on the veranda the clouds had overtaken my view and I did not get the pic.  Little did Heather know I was in the works o ...

I have been doing a million and one things this afternoon and finally found a minute to start blogging before leave my desk I tackle something else on my list. Back later I will leave you with a picture of the road of adventure funny joke slater sent me - [caption id="attachment_14905" align="aligncenter" width="340" caption="Road of adventure"][/caption] 4 golfers were teeing off for a round when the first ...

I didn’t expect to fall in love with Belize By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman - The World Trade Before I scheduled a Western Caribbean cruise in 2003, I had never even heard of Belize. That’s a stunning admission today since I can’t get the country off my mind. I was only there for a day, but in the years since I’ve become a Belize-information junkie. I hope to return for a week this year and, maybe – if the puzzle ...

In celebration of the launch of  Kate Joynes-Burgess new book I asked her to do the honors of the first tacogirl Top Ten List for 2011. Big shout it to Kate who will be celebrating at her London Book launch tomorrow for Belize a Great Destination explorers guide. The Party will be held at Senate House, Malet Street, London where they will be toasting with Caribbean rum cocktails - the high commissioner, Kam ...

Photographer and Author Kate Joynes-Burgess was interviewed by Tom Lowe live on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's breakfast show last Saturday. It was a great interview - Tom asked Kate about her travels around Belize and her new book Belize A Great Destination Explorer's Guide published by The Countryman press. There are 3 days left to listen live on BBC Radio Gloucestershire - After you open link click on Glouc ...

Now that Cindy is back Molly is still loving that we are upstairs and she keeps coming up to visit. Tonight she tried to fool us and was doing her best to look like she was in desperate need of a meal - we figured since she has some kibble down still she was ok. A while later Cindy came up and told us that as soon as she had fed her Molly came barreling up here - sneaky dog. Now Basil [the cat] just dropped ...

Paul borrowed Dick and Carole's cart yesterday to pick up Cindy at Maya Island Air - she was thinking she would be on the 11:40 or 12:40 pm flight. He came back a while later saying she did not turn up and he had gone to check Tropic Air and they had her listed on the 5:40.  A few hours later we heard Cindy turn up - she said that connecting flight to Belize had been delayed in Miami while they changed plan ...

I found two good things to share with you today. First off Belize made the Top 10 Places to Beat the Winter Blues by Shermans Travel and the announcement of the 2011 Scuba Diving Photo Competition by Dive Photo Guide - each category has its own set of prizes -  grand-prize is a seven-night trip on the Dancer Fleet's Sundancer II in Belize and $1,000 in spending cash. What a great travel adventure that would ...