Category: Central America 2025

Pale-bellied woodpecker

More Mayan ruins at Cahal Pech

Sunlight on the ruins

A brown basilisk lizard – these are also known as the jesus lizards as they can run over water when at top speed.  He was right near the pool, which I had to assure my daughters he was unlikely to sprint across.

A spiny-backed orbweaver weaving its web.

We left the interior jungles for some time on the coast – where we found this snowy egret with its breakfast

A large flock of scarlet macaws takes off in a burst of colour.  We were quite distant from these birds but you could hear their cacophony from a distance.

We hopped a boat to explore the Belize Barrier Reef – the second largest reef system in the world – and to get this close-up of a magnificent frigatebird.

Frigatebirds are the pirates of the sky.  Unable to get their feathers wet, they can’t fish themselves, so they let other birds catch a meal and then harry them until they drop it.

Double-crested cormorant