While driving home from my sister’s wedding in northern California in 2008, we stopped at a place we had stopped in at several years earlier while on our road trip from Vancouver Island to Belize… Ruby Beach, and found…
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I was very unhappy at being back in Montreal after leaving Belize. We had bought ourselves a nice two story rooftop condo right on Lake St. Louis but in January of 2006, I remember the weather falling below 0…
After we returned from Belize, I was fortunate enough to work with several non profit organizations, which I found very interesting and rewarding. My favourite work was for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières between the years 2005…
A coral polyp is a spineless animal. Coral polyps can be the size of a pinhead while others are larger, sometimes a foot in diameter. One coral branch or mound is covered by thousands of these animals. They are…
Bula In 2006, we visited Fiji. After we returned from Belize, I really wasn’t happy to be back in Montreal. The first winter back was bad and the second was worse. There was one period where the temperature did…
The Indians are four unique shaped rocky pinnacles in the British Virgin Islands right next to Norman Island. These easy to spot rocky pinnacles rise about sixty feet above the water surface. This unique rock formation has one of…
The Gladden Spit (above) and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve is a protected area of the Belize Barrier Reef, which has become world-famous for its whale shark migration. The Silk Cayes are three tiny islands, further to the south within…
In 2002, I had the opportunity to visit and dive the second largest barrier reef in the world in southern Belize led by Steve Roper. Along on this trip were several members of the Board of Directors of the…
In December of 1998, Yim and I decided to visit Belize – specifically the Placencia peninsula in the southern part of the country – so we could go scuba diving and snorkelling together. It was our very first vacation…