“I have finally found a way to live . . .
in the Presence of the Lord.”
— From an Eric Clapton/Stevie Winwood “contemporary Christian” classic song,
from their days together with the “super group” “Blind Faith”

Watcha gonna do when dey come for you, bad boy, bad boy?” At Flayva’s Bar & Grill on the Mayawalk in downtown San Ignacio, Bob Marley rocks. Flayva’s is one of the most popular watering holes for expats and tourists and Belizeans too

Bird watchers at the swing bridge where the Macal and Mopan Rivers converge outside San Iganacio, BZ

A Belizean Mennonite with a Belizean Hindu couple: Belize has a high number of Mennonites and Middle Easterners, most of whom are Hindu. And then there’s all the Chinese who are a significant part of BZ’s very diverse population (Pop. 300,000).

Meanwhile, back in town on a hot Saturday: a funky, spunky Belizean girl at the market. Thought the hat was a great look.

The annual two-day Easter Fair in BZ is always a big, huge weekend: here one of the guys from the Guatemalen carnival sets up a ride.

Construction of dams are always and everywhere controversial. Chalillo was built way up in Mountain Pine Ridge and it has vastly curtailed the heavy flooding in San Ignacio, although there was heavy flooding nonetheless in the exceptionally rainy season last fall. But the reduced electric rates from the dam, which the foreign electric company that built the dam promised, never happened. Bellzeans get promised a lot of improvements that never seem to happen.
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