- upstream shot of our river entry point
Looking downriver from our entry point
- Aaron starting her float….Zeph is up ahead of her
The jungle was pretty thick in some places
Aaron floating
Some of the dense jungle on the river banks
more river bank shots
more Aaron floating
The first waterfall. About 25 ft tall.
The first "slide" that we attempted. Zeph is getting ready to slide down
this is a shot from the trail in of one of the sections we hiked down in the stream. It was slippery :)
some more stream shots. We hiked right down the middle of all this.
A shot from the trail back on the exit point of the stream
The trail out from the stream back to the jungle...as you can tell not many people walk on this trail
On the way out Zeph took us by a plane wreck that happened back in 1982….all 3 survived the crash forunately.
Plane wreck of 3 jaguar researchers/scientist people. All 3 survived
Another angle on the plane wreck
Day 5 - Heading to Thatch Caye Resort, a private 13 acre island of paradise!!
The morning of day 5 came quickly. I started it out fishing as usual on the beach. Caught another snapper and some more wonderful sunrise shots.
another wonderful sunrise
sunrise in Belize
Spike...sad to see us leave
We loaded up in the van with no air conditioning and headed to the Placencia airport to catch a quick flight to Dangriga. We arrived at Dangriga and were met by Travis, the owner of the island. Our first impression of Travis was a very good one. He was very friendly, happy, and made us really feel comfortable, unlike the previous resort owner.
We loaded in his newer van and drove to a private gated lagoon. At the lagoon we loaded into a nice boat and headed out of the lagoon. Here’s a shot of the boat ride out of the lagoon.
Lagoon ride
From the lagoon we had about a 20 minute boat ride on fairly calm ocean….which was good for me since I am a little sally when it comes to the ocean, boat rides, and leaving my lunch in the water during the rides. Approaching the island got us all giggly as it was such an incredible site!!
approaching the island
The Marina on the island
A distant picture of the main beach on the islandThe Marina entrance
the green/blue water....aw I miss it
This is the entrance to the restaurant, bar, etc...
inside of the main cabana, this is the center kiosk area
This is what you see when you walk straight in. To the left is the bar, straight ahead is the breakfast/lunch eating area, and to the right is a hallway leading to the private dining area. Seating areas are along all the walls. It was beautiful, everything made of local woods and hand crafted by locals.
This is the bar
breakfast/lunch area
Breakfast area looking out into main area
one of the side seating areas
Center island inside bar/restaurant
Computer we used to keep in touch....aaron at the computer
coming up to our casita
Casita steps leading to front door
this is the morning "nook" that you could sit on....if our luggage wasnt on it 
This is directly to the right as you walk in the Casita
as you enter the Casita this is the far wall. The wood door is to the outside stairs that lead to the roof top hammocks
This is our king size bed...its directly to the left as you walk in the room. It had an oscillating fan on each side of the bed and an overhead fan if needed.
looking back at the entrance door to the casita
These are the two rooftop hammocks on top of our Casita. Directly behind them are the stairs you take leading back down to the main level of the Casita
This is looking east from our roof top.
This is a trail on the island. They all look like this, beautifully maintained and surrounded by lush foliage.
boardwalk that ran along the west side of the island. In the distance you see the dock with two palapas, each with a hammock and our casita in the distance
closer view of that dock.....beautiful place to relax and to swim...our casita overlooks this side of the island
close up on one of those palapas...i love this picture!
sting ray we saw below the dock on opposite side of island, school of sardines swimming over it
Pat's first attempt at fishing on the island (same dock we saw the sting ray under)
another view of Pat fishing
This is looking directly south from our roof. This is our neighboring casita.....that was unoccupied the entire trip :)
a sunset rooftop picture as best as we could do by resting the camera on the ledge The roof was quite simply one of the most magnificent places we could hang out at.
beautiful sunset from our rooftop
The second day Pat went fishing in the morning with the resident boat captain while Aaron relaxed on the docks and listened to music. Later in the afternoon we took the boat out again to do some snorkeling. Pat actually got to do some spear fishing while Aaron snorkeled. He got quite a few fish and had a blast doing it!! Except for the time he saw the nurse shark right by where he was trying to spear a fish!! Yikes! There are actually quite a few critters on the island (coata mundi, racoon, monkey, lizards, crabs and other things I can’t remember the names of.
Resident raccoon, she is only chained up because she gets into peoples things :)....she is totally tame (like a house cat)
Coata mundi..there were a lot of these and they just walk all over the place and play in the trees..very cute (although they did tease the raccoon that couldn't get off it's leash :)
This monkey was tied up when we saw it (thank goodness!), because we were advised to run the other way if it came at us as it is apparently mean and would try to beat us up!
Little lizard peeking up through the crack..cute how it has it's hand resting on the dock...
This is a "water duck". It let us get within a foot of it before it "pooed" and flew off.
Pat relaxing in the hammock
Aaron relaxing in the hammock
Pat enjoying the view from our rooftop
on our rooftop
Aramais (our boat captain's assistant) trying to catch some bait for fishing (little sardines)
South Water Caye. In the distance you can see waves breaking..that is the reef. This is where we snorkeled and went diving.
Pat fishing after we got done diving
This is the barracuda being reeled in
Pat and Chico (the boat captain/divemaster/fishing guide) and the barracuda
barracuda's nasty mouth
bonito fish
This is the north end of the island...that is a mangrove plant...they are all over in belize and many of the island are made completely of mangroves.
This is the dock at the north end of the island, you can see the neighboring island (coco plum)
Us on the dock at the north end
Our feet in the sand (Aaron wanted to take this picture :)
going towards the south end of the island the vegetation is much lower, less dense and the cabana's are off to the right
this is one of the cabanas...they are right on the water with a dock out to them, cute.. but much smaller than the casitas
- neat little thatch umbrella just off by itself
- never really expected to see bunnies on a tropical island, but they were all over
looking down the path toward the south end of the island, all the white ground on the left is actually shells (crushed and whole), there are tons!
another neat umbrella down at the south end of the island, really unused beach area
sailboat we saw from the island
enjoying the beautiful evening, our last on the island
As our 10th anniversary trip comes to a close, we thank the Lord for the amazing time He allowed us to spend together.