CLICK HERE for a PDF by the Belize Tourist Board, a quick guide to Belize. It is 2.5mb and eight pages, featuring sections on: Belize Fast Facts Traveling To Belize Adventure For All Belize By Region Belize Cuisine Belizean Culture Read More
Nature - Flora & Fauna
I am trying to find out when would be the best time to come to Belize to see and photograph butterflies in the wild? I plan to spend a month in Belize sometime while travelling around Central America with my camera photographing butterflies, between ... Read More
Yes the Mennonites do grow quite a lot of corn in the country, both for local consumption and export. Corn in the summer, and beans in the fall and winter is the norm, with some sorghum in either (more in winter though during bean cycle). The larger ... Read More
Anyone have eradication protocols for geckos? Our log house has encouraged too many to leave their calling cards on the floors, in the closets and kitchen cabinets. Heretofore in Belize ,they have manifested themselves as an unobtrusive side sho... Read More
There are two main ways that lobsters are fished for in Belize. The first method is by free diving with a hook-stick. The lobster is caught by sliding the stick under its belly and pulling the hook up and out. This takes a lot of skill and (diving) e... Read More
We use a 'hook stick' and snag em – the hook is a very large fishhook lashed on to end of thin fiberglass rod. Read More
There are two places you can try... The Candle Garden, and Sweet Decorations. Sweet Decorations has a website here:https://ambergriscaye.com/sweetdecorations/ For The Candle Garden, if you are at the end of front street and make a left by Belize Bank... Read More
There are snakes here, but not like massive snakes everywhere! I seldom run into one even in the bush…. however..... There are as many as 62 species of snakes in Belize; however, only eight of those are venomous, according to the Belize Zoo. ... Read More
It can be shipped via a barge from the Port Authority on the south side of town. I have beautiful black dirt, but you'd need to come here, check it out then conduct the transfer! Lady Bug used to have compost that was dug on the north end of the isla... Read More
Years ago I seeded with Bermuda. I bought it from Prossers. That spread well and I am about to re-seed some bald patches now that it has started raining again. My "lawn" is one step above a "field", so I am not a good advert for gardening. The Bermud... Read More