We travel to the island of Caye Caulker via a small plane with a stop to circle the Great Blue Hole.

We walked through downtown San Ignacio to a park by the river to look for birds in the morning.

Today our group splits up to go on optional tours. There is a big group going to Tikal in Guatamala. We chose to go to a less visited site called Caracol with another couple.

We travel to the town of San Ignacio in western Belize today.

Today is a visit to Lamanai, one of the oldest Mayan archeological sites in central America. Lamanai means submerged crocodile in the regional Maya dialect.

We went out on the grounds in the morning before breakfast looking for birds.

Today we took the 6:30 am early morning boat tour with guide Rudy. We are hoping to see quite a bit of wildlife.

We arrived in Belize at 1:30pm after starting our day at 4am. It took an hour to get out to Bird’s Eye View at Crooked Tree Wildlife Preserve. Our driver was one of the bird guides, so he pointed out numerous birds on the way. We didn’t stop for photos.

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge actually contains a small part of Death Valley National Park. Ash Meadows is a couple hour drive east of Furnace Creek, so it’s on the way home for us. The rangers at Death Valley started working to save the pupfish at Devil’s Hole in 1952.

Today is a more lazy day in Death Valley National Park. We’ve been doing really well at seeing what’s open in the park, so there isn’t that much left to see.