Cave Tubing at Caves Branch - Cayo District, Belize

Trying to snap shots during adventure tours at Caves Branch proved to be difficult. Condensation on the underwater housing lense cover for my S6 would blur and fog out shots within a few minutes. The caves were humid and misty. Anyway here are some of the less fogged out photos but still blurry-you get the idea.

Images from Belize - Caves Branch Botanical Gardens, Cayo District Vol. 4

Images from Belize - Caves Branch Botanical Gardens, Cayo District Vol. 3

Images from Belize - Caves Branch Botanical Gardens, Cayo District Vol. 2

Images from Belize - Caves Branch Botanical Gardens, Cayo District Vol. 1

Thanks-giving travel time

I'm packed and ready to go. By the end of this weekend I will be in Belize. I have a new camera I hope not to lose; it will be stuck to me most the trip with exception of the ocean. Perhaps by next year I'll have an underwater housing for it, but not right now. My point and shoot that produced all of the photos seen on this blog is going in the water with me. I picked up an underwater housing for it and am looking forward to using it for macro shots. It's pretty damn good at it and I'm hoping to kayak out to the barrier reef at Ambergris Caye and photograph the critters hiding out in the coral reefs. I will also be visiting Hol Chan Marine Reserve and Mexico Rocks. The Cayo district should be interesting as it was flooded out at the end of October. Much damage was done. I am told all is well where I am headed...we shall see, I'm going.

Here's to another trip...

Interesting times

Now that is an amusing image. It makes me chuckle often throughout the day.

There has always been and always will be a breaking point for things that are extended beyond what makes logical sense. If that is God's doing, you can be thankful. Money and power are subject to the natural wear and tear of change-as are mountains, oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, and any other physical manifestation. This is because there always has to be two sides for any one side to exist and hold meaning. Maybe for once I myself can be relieved that I did not and do not have hundreds of thousands of dollars (or millions...) stashed away in any stock profile or retirement fund. For years I wondered, living in Southern California and making better than average income- "where the fuck is all the money coming from? I can't afford a house in a neighborhood I would actually want to live in..." -I don't know about everyone else, but I remember being taught and believing that with an education, hard work and dedication to a noble career...you too could be entitled to a house, family, cars, vacations, blah blah blah blah blah. It's a fucking mirage! Ha! Buy a wife, err...I mean a house, start a family and watch your well being go to the shitter when you become tired of trying to keep your head above water. Ever heard of "debt-free living?" What the fuck is that? Oh you mean living in as cheap of a room as you can find, no car, no kids, no school, no medical, no insurance? Who walks up to buy a house or condo and says "I got all your money right here, all $700,000 of it...because I live debt free." (???) Not many.

There are fewer of them than there are those that are going to...uh, take out a loan.

The definition of a loan is DEBT.

Herbage

Some photos I took last night in my herb garden. I am playing around with the macro function to see what I can accomplish with this little Nikon S6 I bought 2 1/2 years ago. I bought an underwater housing for it and it is on the way. I may actually be able to get some nice shallow water macro shots from this camera with the flash enabled.