April Blogging A to Z Challenge 2026: Lagoon in Belize

 

above is a video of the Placencia Lagoon. Most of our crocodile research and some mangrove planting was along this waterway.

April Blogging A to Z Challenge 2026: K is for Kriol in Belize

 The primary language in Belize is English as the country was British Honduras until 1982. The second biggest language in Belize is Spanish which makes sense considering the countries location. the third most popular language is Kriol also known as Belize Creole. 

The language mixes influences from English, African (from slave days), Native Tongues, Spanish annd other influences to create it unique language.

April Blogging A to Z Challenge 2026: H is for Hopkins in Belize

 I had a couple of daytrips to Hopkins and past it several times. Hopkins is rich in the Garifuna culture which I posted about yesterday. Beach, meets jungle and mountains is a good way to describe the area.

Next a quick tour...

A quick post for today, more to come!

April Blogging A to Z Challenge 2026: G is for Garifuna in Belize

Above is about the Garifuna in Hopkins,

Below cooking...

Drumming...

Garifuna are the descendants of a shipwrecked slave ship who intermarried with the Arawak natives. My experience friendly, welcoming people. Belize is a mixing bowl of many cultures!

 

Thanksgiving!

I wish all my readers the best for Thanksgiving! I hope everyone was able to find something to be thankful for as I know sometimes in a world full of troubles that can be hard to find.

The news before thanksgiving was not pleasant. Children getting shot by police, granted the children were playing with toy guns that looked like the real things. The riots in the aftermath of the decision in Ferguson. I wanted to blog about it. However, nothing I could write could change the situation.
I almost fell through the trap door and started blogging about it.

I pray for healing in those communities. I pray for the riots to end and peace to prevail. I hope it wasn't a racial issue. I know the incident has widened the division between races in this melting pot we call America.

I truly hope those racial divides end. I am not a fan of dividing people up in politics the left and the right either. Then there is the religious divide. We are all different. We should celebrate these differences and enjoy living together in harmony.

I am thankful I have friends of different religions, races, and.backgrounds. I am thankful for the ones who have shared their traditions, their food, their culture and truly enriched my life.

That is why my thoughts are on peace and love! No, I am not trying to sound like an old hippy. However peace, love and together is a much greater alternative than what I see in the news. No more riots, no more injustice, no more big divides, lets come together and become something greater.

Maybe give the homeless shelter, maybe feed the hungry without being arrested, maybe lifting up instead of tearing down. If we all work towards that wouldn't we all be more thankful?