Jitterbugging for Jesus

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).

Diving off the swing bridge

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

Sign on Christo Rey Road: don’t be a litterbug, mon.

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.

A carny’s boy staying cool.

Another roadside attraction: which is to say, another Belizean creepy crawler

Another creepy crawler: a carny walking on his hands while his buddy works.

High wire at a local soccer field; these kids much prefer barefoot soccer

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.

Umbrellas aren’t just for the rain; you’ll rarely see a Belizean woman without an umbrella for the rain or for too much shine from el sol.

Until next time, stay crazy: it’s always worked for me.