Cayuse

The next day, Friday, August 24, we are met at the hotel by our guides in an Austrian 6 wheel all terrain vehicle (similar to a Hummer) that holds 14 people in the back. We all get into the back of the truck with our gear. We drive for about 3 hours to reach the […]

We leave Houston around 3:00 p.m. on August 21 on a KLM flight to Amsterdam. We arrive in Amsterdam the next morning at around 7:00 a.m. after 9 hours of flying. After a 2 hour layover at Schipol, we fly from Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania on an 8 hour KLM flight, arriving at […]

Hurricane season in the Caribbean shuts down most cruising. Cayuse is now tied up at a dock at Marios on the Rio Dulce near Fronteras, Guatemala. To take advantage of the available time, we are flying to Africa and joining a trek to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is the largest free standing mountain […]

Antigua is surrounded by three volcanoes, Volcano Aqua, Volcano Acatenango, and Volcano Fuego. Acatenago is the tallest one and the third tallest peak in Central America at a little over 13,000 feet. Fuego is adjacent to Acatenango and is one of three active volcanoes in Antigua. We decided to hike up Acatenango with part of […]

We left Placencia, Belize to see some of the cays between the mainland and the barrier reef. Our first stop was Laughing Bird Cay, which is a World Heritage Site and a Belizean park. The cay is named after the Laughing Gull, which used to nest on the island. The cay is a small sand […]

In the early 1980’s, a conservationist named Alan Rabinowitz came to Belize to study the jaguar (one of the prettiest big cats) and its habits. He spent two years tracking jaguars in the area that was to become the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (CBWS). He wrote a book called “Jaguar” after completion of the study. […]

After spending time in northern Belize, we are now anchored off of the town of Placencia in southern Belize. It took us several days to work our way down inside the barrier reef stopping at several of the uninhabited cays along the barrier reef at night. Placencia is a small town on a peninsula on […]

We are in Caye Caulker, Belize after staying 2 days anchored off San Pedro. It is a funky, pleasant place with a few sand streets, about 800 residents, a very nice anchorage, and pretty water behind the barrier reef. We will be here for a few days before moving south to Belize City. The water […]