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Traveling to Belize is always an adventure and the last little hope on central american propreller planes from belize city to amergris caye add the touch of being in a remote island atoll.
It is just beautiful out here.
check out a very short video clip of the sharks joining us on the first day of diving of the local colorful coral canyon walls.
outside weather just beautiful in the 80's sunny
you set the depth of your diving
water temp at 100 feet is 86 degrees
Visibility is blue and over 150 feet
lots and lots of pretty tropical fish - more videos to follow
Day 2 gets even better as the Zen of diving falls into place in the colorful coral gardens of the diving off of Ambergris Caye
NOt so far, we missed the one when we flew in and we leave tomorrow for home.
Check out this short little clip of those cool blue flourescent tropical fish, I need to get home and find my fish book for sure.
Richard predicted to hit Tuesday at 70 mph winds in Ambregris no one leaving no evacuation, expecting a rain storm for a day or so..............all is well
looks like we got out of there yesterday just before this big bad hurricane made its way to our location.
From Yahoo news:
Hurricane Richard approaches coast of Belize
AP
Sun Oct 24, 11:08 am ET
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center say Tropical Storm Richard has strengthened into a hurricane.
The storm lashed Honduras' Caribbean coast with heavy rain and wind and became a hurricane on Sunday as it roared toward Belize and southeastern Mexico.
A hurricane warning was in effect for the coast of Belize and the western part of the Honduras coast.
Early Sunday, Richard's center was located about 95 miles (155 kilometers) east-southeast of Belize City and was moving west-northwest at about 12 mph (19 kph). It had sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kmh).
Authorities warned of deadly floods and mudslides in Honduras and declared states of maximum alert in four coastal provinces.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Tropical Storm Richard lashed Honduras' Caribbean coast with heavy rain and wind and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Sunday as it roared toward Belize and southeastern Mexico.
Authorities warned of deadly floods and mudslides in Honduras and declared states of maximum alert in four coastal provinces.
Lisandro Rosales, head of Honduras' Permanent Emergency Commission, said civil defense offices along the coast were preparing to carry out evacuations if needed.
Richard is likely to pass near the Honduran island of Roatan, which is popular with tourists and divers, before approaching Belize and southeastern Mexico late Sunday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.
Hurricane warnings were issued for the coasts of Honduras and Belize, and storm warnings were in place for Mexico's southern Caribbean coast.
Larger version
Ask America: Learn. Listen. Be heard.
Early Sunday, Richard was just off Honduras' coast, at a point about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Roatan and was moving west-northwest at about 10 mph (17 kph).
Its maximum sustained winds strengthened to 70 mph (110 kph) and were expected to reach hurricane strength later Sunday, according to the hurricane center.
Honduran officials said rain was falling on the eastern province of Gracias a Dios, where floods have been severe in the past.
"Richard is traveling slowly parallel to Honduras' Atlantic coast and causing rains since Friday night on the Caribbean seaboard," said Daniel Posas of Honduras' National Meteorological Service.
"Bands from Richard are already provoking strong winds in Gracias a Dios province that will increase over the course of the day."
The hurricane center said Richard could cause "large, destructive waves" and storm surges of 2 to 4 feet above normal tides in Honduras and Belize. The storm could bring 3 to 5 inches (7 to 13 centimeters) of rain to northern Honduras and as much as 7 inches (18 centimeters) in some spots, which the center said "could produce life-threatening flash floods and mud slides."
Another Video of Fridays last day diving on the coral walls doing the swim through
Mary here is the longer version video ..........unbelizable..........
Good time, Good friends, .............great diving............
Thanks to Jeff and Becky for being my wonderful dive buddy and vacation travellers. My non diving wife who is so supportive of our adventures.
Special thanks for Don Perryman for donating his little Kodak Zx1 camera and Ikelite housing for this video.
The small consumer video camera held up and did a great job at 100 feet deep and above, I used my 15 watt Ikelite light and a color correction filter below 15 feet deep on this trip.
Pretty amazing video out of this little low cost underwater video camera set up.
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