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a purple flower. bzzz bzzz.

a joke on the wall in our local pizza shop. it took me a while to get it, and then i laughed out loud.

we didn't see the bad dog referred to in the sign. phew.

me chaperoning the groceries to placencia. that's 7 trays of eggs you can see, sitting on 100 pounds of flour, next to a gigantic box of corn flakes. only one egg was smashed in the making of this photo.

a fan palm at close quarters.

cap'n robert. aye aye. 

a typical scene in cayo - a bus, some mud, an umbrella, a girl watching the world go by. we were eating a chicken burrito at lucy's mexican food stall. if i had my own bus i would paint it that colour too.

oi wot you looking at. i think that's what he said, but it might've been pieces of eight.

meow. a local jaguar (pronounced in american as jag-wah, not jag-you-eye-err) (ditto nicarag-wah when referring to nicaragua). he lives at an inland resort called banana banks where we stopped to see the owner, a fellow montana-wah.

a bird hanging out. he'll sick up his bird food if he's not careful.

ginny this one's for you. see how adeptly he uses his tail as a limb. gross. he was on a chain so there was no risk of monkey bites.

me petting a small deer at banana banks. i seriously did not know there were deer in belize until this moment. i felt like i was in narnia-wah.

mick fleming on the right, me in the middle with new (used) bike and in a strange about-to-go-cycling pose, and rolly on the left, who works for mick mending bikes. more to come in the next blog update.