 | | The dive deck of the Sun Dancer II. Nice and open!
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 | | The lounging deck at night. Lots of room to layout.
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 | | Bill kickin' it saturday night. We get underway in the morning.
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 | | Barracuda swimming about.
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 | | This lobster is lucky he isn't in a barrel of boiling water! Yeah, yeah, i know : )
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 | | Silhouette of a diver with the boat in the background.
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 | | Divers going along the top during a wall dive.
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 | | Divemaster Hoi taking some video. To sell back to us! Shouldn't we get a cut for being actors in the film?
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 | | A small school of something or other swimming about the coral.
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 | | Divers at the edge of the wall where it meets the sand.
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 | | My random-assigned dive buddy Baila heading back to the boat. Peter Hughes boats have the cool safety stop bar where you can just chill out for 3 minutes. No need to chase the boat, and there's O2 if you need it. Nice!
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 | | A new take on my taking a picture of someone taking a picture.
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 | | An open swim thru.
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 | | More fishies, this time they're hungry for something in the coral.
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 | | A classic but not so good picture of the famous blue hole. The best way to dive it is with a liveaboard. The shore divers get screwed, we muck it up for them. And we wake up there, they have to take a 3 hr puke ride there. All for a 10 minute dive!
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 | | Someone above me next to a stalagtite.
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 | | It's a famous dive, but there isn't much to see down here except these buggers. Don't hit them!
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 | | This is why shoredivers get screwed. We're the first to dive it, look what our bubbles are doing!
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 | | Relaxing between dives.
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 | | Coming ashore after the blue hole. Because we went so deep we're taking a dive off just in case.
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 | | Ashore to check out the wildlife and have lunch.
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 | | John and the ladies atop the observation deck to checkout the birdies.
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 | | There are a few locals that live here, just a few though. Also the old lighthouse is at the end of island.
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 | | Someone must have climbed the lighthouse to get this shot. No worries, we're not in america so people don't freak out if you break a few rules.
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 | | BBQ, sweet!!!
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 | | A nice shot of the boat. It's much bigger than your typical dive boat. It's not a cruiseship though, there are only a dozen passengers or so!
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 | | Someone getting out of the pool.
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 | | That'd be Ed. A cranky fellow, but real nice once you get to know him.
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 | | The diver board
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 | | I saw this little bugger during a night dive. He's about an inch long and they don't sting or anything. Moon jellies as they call them.
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 | | Another good sized barrel sponge.
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 | | Sealife on the reef.
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 | | Two Queen Angelfish getting it on. They were swimming side-by-side, very syncronized!
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 | | Justin, a deckhand, during his break. These guys work their asses off for us white people. Work on board is a 24/7 operation.
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 | | Crew member helping some folks on board.
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 | | I went up to visit Capt Loch on the bridge. There were all sorts of cool gadgets everywhere. He's the dude that taught me the meaning of 'pearshaped'. We yanks don't hear euro slang very often.
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 | | A cup of hot cocoa, dinner scents wafting through, and a time for a leisurely dive briefing.
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 | | DM Hoi chillin'. Mr Hughes' au paire is on board, i don't think he got a far as he wanted to though : )
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 | | Um... ladies. You're in the way. I was trying to get a picture of the machinery but they thought i was trying to get a pic of them. Sheesh...
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 | | Daily room service, that's my room and bed by the window.
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 | | The little sealife on the coral.
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 | | Dive buddy Baila above the wall.
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 | | The coral closer to the sand.
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 | | That'd be me. Sidewards. And all wet.
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 | | Someone's console screwing up. Bummer. You don't want to be locked out of your computer!
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 | | The sundeck with people and gear strewn about. After the last dive they wash all your stuff and dry it out for you.
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 | | The standard lunch fare. All fresh food, just made. Good stuff. That's Sandy (underseas.com) fixin' food (and the only place in north american that works on suunto gear).
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 | | So we get back early friday and i signed up for a tour. I was the only one there! Besides the guide and the archeologists that is.
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 | | The big pyramid on the site. Notice that it's half covered in dirt and plants? It's a relatively new find and they don't have the big bucks like cancun.
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 | | A shot of the square and the digs going on.
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 | | My guide for the day. I paid like $10 for the tour and he took me in his car.
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 | | So on saturday i signed up for another tour, and the only way to get there is a boat ride! Cool...
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 | | The boat goes up rivers and across lakes...
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 | | There are a fair amount of subsistence fisherman here.
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 | | So here we are crusing down this waterway and all of a sudden these white people turn up around this corner. With cows and stuff. WTF? Oh... crazy quaker types. They showed up in the 50's or something like that. The seem to get persecuted everywhere they go. Go figure.
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 | | Arrival at the ruins! They say that the lake we just floated was dug out by hand to create the mounds for the complex.
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 | | The tourist center. There aren't any kitchy bits here.
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 | | A quick talk on a tree or something.
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 | | Nondescript ruin but with a big/famous head next to it.
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 | | A well known mask/carving. They try to protect it as best as they can.
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 | | Me.
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 | | One of the big pyramids on site.
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 | | A carved stelle. Turns out the real one is in a museum or otherwise carted off. Hmmm... no wonder they told us not to touch... the fiberglass replica.
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 | | Yup, this place is in the middle of the jungle!
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 | | More pyramid pictues.
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 | | Guess which one is the Aggressor boat, and which is the Peter Hughes boat. Yeah.. the aggressor boat should be peter's tender/bitch boat!
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 | | A picture of 'downtown' where the white people stay.
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 | | The backstreets of the city at night.
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 | | Even post-9/11 they didn't shoot the kids who jumped over the fence. Hard to believe, but this is belize after all.
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 | | Like one needs a sign to tell where the crackers visit, and where the brown people live.
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 | | Keep this number handy in case you win the lottery!
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 | | The Radisson where i stayed a night. It was once a fancy place, many many years ago.
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 | | Crossing the bridge to where the local locals live. There's a difference between the other side!
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 | | It's not unsafe... just don't be an idiot.
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 | | This isn't just some dumpy warehouse, it's the headquarters of PUP. It's kinda like the RNC for us Americans.
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 | | Residentialish area.
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 | | This is me getting a little artsy. Later on that night i'd stumble upon a local fisherman here who showed me how to fish. Badly. A poor guy but i stopped to chat and he gave me a coke. Those are cheap for us gringos, but a nice gesture from him.
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 | | A building with a lot of ministries and government offices.
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