pics from the jungle

We've been in the jungle up at Barton Creek Outpost in the Mountain Pine Ridge area of Belize for the last few weeks. There's a lot to cover of our adventures, so I'll save it for tomorrow and just do some pics.


This is the orange grove where we'd picked a wagon load of oranges every morning to sell and enjoy fresh squeezed OJ all day.


Canoes are an important part of life at Barton Creek - the rangers are upstream with the rainwater supply and gasoline to run the highly unsustainable restaurant. The outpost also runs tours and rents them for trips into the cave.

That was a beautiful jungle garobo - the male iguana - which the dogs found in the jungle and chased off the cliff into the creek. That's where Edwin, the Mexican-Guatemalan guy who works at the outpost, dove into the creek and caught it with a slingshot and machete. They cooked and ate it that evening.


The rickety old swing bridge that crosses the creek cars must drive through to get to the cave.


The long and awfully bumpy road to the creek, past miles and miles of orange groves and beautiful scenes of life in the jungle.



One of the many brightly painted school buses that motor travelers all aroung Belize, in San Ignacio.