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 Enviar a email | Scuba diving in Belize en General |  Por Simone
el 22-Sep-2007 | Can you believe that I have managed to live in Belize for 6 years, without having been scuba diving once? I do have my PADI advanced Open Water certificate & love diving, but I just haven?t had a chance to do so whilst living here. For all this time, we were either too busy building our business or I was pregnant or nursing. So I?ve never been on more than a short snorkeling trip (which are great trips too, by the way)
Anyhow, yesterday I finally went on a proper scuba dive. And it was brilliant! My dive master Marcos was just amazing. The sea life we encountered on the two different dive sites were acting like they were all his personal pets. I?ve never seen anything like it. He didn?t even feed any of them, but he just seemed to communicate with them by touch.
Through Marcos? help, we were able to pet a giant eel and tickle a nurse shark. The eel was actually a ?friend? of his. He calls her Esmerelda and he had been looking for her for over a month. He was so excited when he found her again. I have never seen a man beam over the sight of an eel before, but Marcos surely did when we got back to the boat and he told us about how Esmerelda had been hiding since Hurricane Dean had come near.
We also swam right beside a turtle, tons of other nurse sharks, a stingray, a parrotfish and we got kind of ?attacked? by a Moreno fish? I forgot the actual name of the fish, but it was a fish that normally attaches itself to a shark or a whale & had obviously lost its host. It then tried to attach itself to us as we were hovering around waiting for our ears to equalize on our way back to the surface. It kept trying to nibble at my hair and in the end the dive master had to punch it to get it to move away from us.
All in all, it was a fantastic first diving session. And I definitely won?t wait another 6 years to dive again.
Oh, and I will try and get hold of the pictures that were taken by the dive master later today
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| Scuba diving in Belize | | Can you believe that I have managed to live in Belize for 6 years, without having been scuba diving once? I do have my PADI advanced Open Water certificate & love diving, but I just haven?t had a chance to do so whilst living here. For all this time, we were either too busy building our business or I was pregnant or nursing. So I?ve never been on more than a short snorkeling trip (which are gr [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 22-Sep-2007 por Simone en General
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| Back at the Belize Jungle Dome for the summer |  Whilst Karen (our resort's manager) is on her well-deserved break to Canada we are back in Belize running the Belize Jungle Dome. Coming back to Belize-after all these months in Aruba-was a bit of a shock to the system, but we are now back into the swing of things and are enjoying ourselves.We had to get used again to the fact that in Belize you create your own fun. Nothing gets handed [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 20-Jul-2008 por Simone en General
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| Belize supermarkets versus Aruban supermarkets...I think we have a winner! | | For those of you who've never lived in a developing country like Belize it may be hard to imagine, but I am in heaven every time I walk into a supermarket here in Aruba. In the supermarkets here you can get pretty much everything. Which isn't always the case in Belize. In Belize you can never get any kind of mushrooms, fresh asparagus, soy yoghurts, blueberries, veggie burgers, etc. But in Aruba y [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 05-Dec-2007 por Simone en General
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| Belize Dolphin Encounter pictures |  Here are two more pictures of last week's dolphin encounter. I never did collect the underwater pictures of my scuba dive though as it started raining badly on San Pedro and the dive shop was quite far from the hotel.Oh well..... [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 26-Sep-2007 por Simone en General
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| Religion 'gone crazy' in Belize |  Living in Belize, we've come across some crazy situations with regards to superstitions. People in our local community believe in witchcraft, demon possessions, etc. It seems to be that many of the (rural) communities in Belize have blended the message of the evangelical missionaries with their old traditions/religions and/or superstitions. All that shouting about the devil (something the US [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 30-Jan-2008 por Simone en General
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| My blogging dilema | | I'm having a bit of a 'problem'. As you know, my blog is called 'Simone's Belize Blog', but we have decided not to live in Belize from this coming December until next summer.For this coming tourist season we will be renting out our new house (next to the Jungle Dome) as part of the vacation packages that are offered through Green Dragon Adventure Travel and The Belize Jungle Dome. We a [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 09-Oct-2007 por Simone en General
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| All-metal diving suit from 1938 | | Cory Doctorow:
Check out this all-metal self-contained diving suit from the August 1938 ish of Mechanix Illustrated. Love those manipulator claws! Still, a max depth of 1,200 feet is nothing to be sneezed at. Try that in a shortie!
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| Belize real estate, Riverside Villa | | Well, we have decided that we want to stay on Aruba for the coming year(s). This place is a perfect mix for us between the relaxed Caribbean lifstyle that we had gotten used to in Belize & the Dutch/European lifestyle we were sometimes missing when we were living in the jungle. I love the fact that Lucas and Aidan are now learning to speak perfect Dutch in their Dutch schools & of course w [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 09-Mar-2008 por Simone en General
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| The Secret of the Diving Monkeys | | ?In Indonesia, these monkeys have adopted a unique amphibious lifestyle. They fish out fallen food. The troop also uses the waters to cool off during the heat of the day. But the [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 10-Oct-2007 por aberron en General
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| Funny things kids say |  All is well here on the sunny island. My little sister Iris and her partner Remon came over from Holland, Andy went to Belize to check on the Dome ( [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 13-Feb-2008 por Simone en General
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