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RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - ohliz - 04-21-2017
You might enjoy this video about the fish sanctuary in TB
This is about the Belize trip:
RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - ohliz - 04-21-2017
Ron thanks for stopping in and reading! I have come to really love TB more than anyplace else in JA. The pace is slower than Negril for sure but it's not like parties aren't going on, they are, it's all just a bit more chill.
Glad to answer questions about anything.
RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - oldtimer - 04-22-2017
Wonderful video !!!! 2 years ago ,while staying at Treehouse , there was a fisherman coming ashore right in front of Country Country and he had nothing but short lobsters and baby fish . The tourists couldn't buy the catch quick enough . This was day after day . Does the guy have a right for survival or should he leave the fish alone and let them grow ? There was also a Bull Shark murdered up off the cliffs . Sharks are what save the ocean by keeping the weak and sick thinned out . Black River and area are WAY !!!!!!!!! farther ahead than the fishermen of the north shore .
RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - ohliz - 04-22-2017
It's really tough to tell someone who is poor not to catch a few little fish to make enough $ to survive when leaving them would, one day, possibly for a different fisherman, grow into more $.
Constant stress between short and long term goals, just like most places, but with more desperation.
One thing i like in the Belize video is when the JA group snorkel and see the # and size of fish in the sanctuary there and are so amazed and want to replicate that back home. Dennis says it gives him hope and determination. But even in Belize (which, like Costa Rica, seems to have a lot of Jamaican folks on the east coasts), they struggle to educate everyone who sees big lobsters (with roe) and fish in the sanctuary and want them.
The filmmaker who made the Massa God Fish can Done video, Esther Figeuroa, has lot of other very cool videos focused on environment and sustainability issues in Jamaica. Educational, and also beautiful and entertaining. I subscribe to her youtube channel.
RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - ohliz - 04-22-2017
Ron - you said you moved from Ohio? Where did you live here?
RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - kylake - 04-23-2017
Still following and Gloria is a really nice lady at SL. We talked for a while when we stopped coming back with Dennis.
Not a very good pic but I took a quick click on the camera as we went under the bridge showing Dennis ducking. Just like you we stuck a bill signed at Rudys (no pic)
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RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - ohliz - 04-24-2017
Love it!! Can I borrow that pic and add it to that post with your credit?
RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - kylake - 04-24-2017
Sure and you don't even have to credit. I have another one for you and David took this by rocking the boat by the mangroves at Rudys. Artsy and kinda neat if you ask me.
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RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - ohliz - 04-24-2017
Thanks ky!
Artsy
RE: Liz Trip report Jan 2017 - kylake - 04-25-2017
Thanks Liz, spelling corrected :-)