Central America 2003



Central America 2003



In late April and early May 2003, John Fulton, Margaret Dahlen and Doug Cayne flew Doug's King Air E90 from northern California to Mexico and Belize. This web site is a snapshot album from that trip.

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The main part of the bathroom has double sinks and a deep bath/shower finished in tile. The rear of the bathroom is all screens, opening into an outdoor stone courtyard with another shower outside.
IMG_0110 		Plenty of room in this bathroom.
IMG_0111 		The entire front of the villa is screens and thatched roof, looking out on the beach and the ocean. Not a bad place to spend some time!
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John on the boat as we head out for the barrier reef and some snorkeling.
IMG_0121 		John on the snorkel boat.
IMG_0125 		Doug and Margaret in the back of the snorkel boat with our guide.
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On the way out to the reef, we spotted several fins in the water, belonging to this school of dolphins.
IMG_0127 		The dolphins swam with the boat a little ways, before breaking off and heading away.
IMG_0128 		Lots of fun seeing the dolphins.
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Nearing the reef, we stopped at this small atoll for a snorkel and lunch. When we arrived, we were the only ones there. But by the time we finished snorkeling, two other boats had arrived with a crowd, everyone wanting to use the fire pit for cooking lunch.
IMG_0131 		Margaret on the beach in the Silk Cayes.
IMG_0142 		Margaret on the beach.
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Doug on the beach at Silk Cayes.
IMG_0146 		John with our boat on Silk Cayes.
IMG_0147 		Doug and Margaret walking the beach at the Silk Cayes.
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A &quotcrowd" showed up to cook lunch on this Silk Caye.
IMG_0149 		Margaret wades out towards our boat on Silk Caye.
IMG_0150 		Another shot of Margaret at Silk Caye.
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Pelican in a tree at one of the small cayes on our way back towards the mainland.
IMG_0156 		This caye was severely damaged in the hurricane last year (2002).
IMG_0161 		Pelicans.
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John inspects the vase in our villa at Turtle Inn.
IMG_0166 		John relaxes after a shower at Turtle Inn.
IMG_0167 		We had Blancaneaux send its Brittan-Norman Islander, &quotSofia", to fly us from Placencia to Blancaneaux Lodge. Raphael Perez was our pilot.
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John and Margaret, about to board &quotSofia" for our flight to Blancaneaux.
IMG_0176 		Doug and John with &quotSofia".
IMG_0177 		Margaret sat up front with Rafael Perez for the flight from Placencia to Blancaneaux.
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The view from &quotSofia" after take-off from Plancencia, looking back on the runway and Turtle Inn. The runway is the long horizontal line in the picture, extending out on the narrow bridge across the lagoon. The thatched roofs of Turtle Inn can just be seen in the extreme lower left-hand corner of the photo. <br>
IMG_0184 		Looking back on Turtle Inn as we depart in &quotSofia." The Inn is the collection of thatched buildings, with the circular swimming pool in the middle.
IMG_0185 		The Turtle Inn resort, as seen from our plane on departure.
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We overflew Blancaneaux Lodge prior to landing. In this photo, the runway is the horizontal line across the top of the picture. The river runs horizontally across the middle of the picture, with the lodge's villas alongside it. <br><br>The arrow shows Francis Ford Coppola's villa (he designed and owns the lodge), where we stay while there.
IMG_0197b 		Just touching down on the dirt airstrip at Blancaneaux Lodge in &quotSofia," the Brittan-Norman Islander.
IMG_0200 		One of the many Mayan pyramids at Tikal in Guatemala. This one is excavated in front only. To the rear, you see what's left of the dirt mound that was covering it when it was discovered in the jungle a hundred years ago.
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The front side of the same pyramid. The stone stella and alters in front of the pyramid are said to mark where human sacrifices were performed.
IMG_0204 		The view down from the top of the pyramid.
IMG_0207 		A close-up of one of the stella and alters. These are protected from the elements by thatched roofs.
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