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As many of you know who frequent this board even infrequently, I've been to Belize many times. But always in the summer. This year, for a number of reasons having to do with global forces all the way down to family matters, it's going to be October. Any significant difference besides the risk...

I just received a promotional email from the San Ignacio Hotel advising that as of April 1st the mask mandate has been lifted. Yay! You will need to provide proof of vaccination at the airport. For the party crowd, all bars, nightclubs and restaurants are allowed to operate as normal. (Must...

Per the Belize Tourism Board:

Not really a scuba diving topic, but there's a spot on the Hummingbird Highway where if you stop and put the car in neutral then you'll roll backwards up hill. At least it appears that way. It's near Mile Post 29, if I remember correctly, might be MP 30. One of the locals, Marco, showed it to...

I just found out Dr. Rabinowitz died earlier this month at the age of 64. This wasn't totally unexpected given that he was diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia almost twenty years ago. But he kept on working all these years on behalf of wildlife, especially the big cats, and I had begun to...

Made my annual trek to Belize in June, flying down on the first and returning on the twenty third. Since I didn't go through Mexico City like last year, I'm happy to report that this time I managed to hang onto my wallet, passport, drivers license and credit cards. Man, does that make life...

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed my signature line had disappeared. I'm not very witty, so my sig was just a .jpg of the Bryan Cranston character on Breaking Bad with the quote, "Send him to Belize? I'll send you to Belize." After some years of this sig, it vanished and now all there is a...

I just returned from what has become my annual trek to Belize. Usually I go for three weeks but this time I had to swing by Mexico City and El Salvador on my way down so I was in Belize for only two weeks. The village continues to improve, with lots of construction going on. We dove with...

Spotted this on Splash Dive Center's Facebook page: Belize Tourism Board just announced it's annual national tourism awards, and Splash Dive Center in Placencia won two of them: Tour Operator of the Year and Hospitality Award of the Year. I'm guessing Tour Operator is for diving operations...

Just got back from my annual trek to Belize. This time, I stopped off in Tampa, the armpit of Florida, to see my Mom and my sister and her family, before continuing on to Belize. It's nice leaving from Florida since I arrive at Goldson much earlier in the day than when I leave from the West...

For the last couple of weeks, both at home on my iMac and at work (ahem) on my PC, I get a warning whenever I surf over to SB that this may be a phishing site and asking if I want to continue on to the site. I'm not sure what a "phishing site" is exactly but it doesn't sound good. Anything I...

I had the below photo in my signature line. But now it's gone. I went to upload it again but am told no more uploads, only urls. True? If so, then is there some sort of workaround? Sorry to be such a dumb*ss.

Are they ever coming back?

I need to send you a PM, but your account has your PMs turned off.

This was at least my seventh or eighth trip to Belize, and once again it did not disappoint. My wife, Carol, and I spent five days in Placencia diving with Splash Dive Center. Then we drove down to Punta Gorda for three nights, the first at Garbutts Fishing Lodge, the second two at Belcampo...

Looks like we're leaving Portland just in time. It's supposed to be in the upper 90s and even into the low triple digits over the next few days. And the weather in Dallas, our connecting city, has finally stabilized so little threat of a Texas thunderstorm interfering with our flight schedule...

Per the latest issue of Undercurrent: Leonardo DiCaprio's New Eco-Resort in Belize The actor and avid environmentalist first visited Belize in 2005 for a dive trip and fell in love. Now he plans to build an eco-conscious resort on Blackadore Caye, a 104-acre island that's a 15-minute boat ride...

If you're thinking of staying at The Seven Seas on Ambergris Caye, you might be interested in the following story from the UK's Daily Mail, which was picked up by Undercurrent: Exclusive: KKK Violent Imperial Wizard On Living Life In Belize At least the article is very complimentary about...

Clean streets. Clean parks. A canal running right through town. Great prices (remember, those are BZ dollars). Less paperwork for business. People enjoy going to work. No city's complete without a scuba shop. A swinging bridge--how...

I waited until August to take my annual scuba trip so I could combine it with a trip to Tampa to celebrate my Mom's birthday. There are a lot of cool places in Florida, but unfortunately Tampa isn't one of them. After a week there, I took a puddle hopper to Miami and then on to Belize. This...