Belize: March Madness

We are truly in the middle of March madness! For reasons unknown, in the middle of the dry season we are under a ton of water. It has rained buckets all day and it's playing havoc with the net. Hopefully this time I'll get this published. Here are March's pictures:

First picture: It was a gorgeous day. Beautiful blue sky ... and a bright, perfect rainbow. I think the picture turned out well.

There are chickens everywhere in Belize. I'm not sure I can live in a place, any longer, that doesn't have roosters crowing at all hours. Here we stopped at a garage in Belmopan - the cosmopolitan capital city of Belize. The mechanics worked around the chickens strutting around the garage. The dogs just ignored them.

Here are my young women at girls camp. You can tell by the blue 'blouses' that they are all beehives. Left to right: Juana, Kori, Marcia, Modesty and Veronica. I didn't lose Kori once at camp. She was the only white face in a sea of black.

The picture doesn't really do this justice. It is the nest of a Jabiru stork. Jabiru are the largest birds in Belize. They are about five feet tall. You can imagine how big the nest is.

The big hike of the month was up to Ben's Bluff. It's only four km but mostly uphill in the sun. Pretty nasty! This is the view from the top. The peak on the left is Victoria Peak: the highest peak in Belize. It's an amazing site but I'm still undecided if it's worth the hike.