Nice early start to the day thanks to the local bloody 2 legged alarm clocks. I think they’d end up in a pie if I lived here; however, we headed off to Cockscombe Basin and was there by 7:45am. Our guide started to show us around; saw lots of birds, some insects and even tracks from a Jaguar, but nothing really as good as we hoped as Cockscombe is famous for, and the only Jaguar park in the world. After four hours we parted company with the guide and £20 for his services, which didn’t seem too bad for that amount of time.

Headed down to a beach side village called Plancencia. At the moment it looks primary like a building site, but you can see that in 5 years it’s going to be a huge resort area and full of fancy homes for rich people. Huge houses on massive plots are being built everywhere basically. Tony did some snorkelling and found a cool looking star fish but not much else. Had a fantastic dinner in an open-air beach side restaurant. Shrimps (prawns!) chicken, snapper fish were all good.

Ended the day by taking a really slow drive back (and up to Cockscombe Basin again) to see what other animals we could spot. Saw some more birds, frogs, a small fox like creature and best was something that we think was a Puma; at least, it looked like that sort of thing & was around 3 times the size of a normal domestic cat (and would probably have like to eat one!) Anyway, it came right next to the car & Li got a really good look at it then it wandered off into the jungle. Overall, Belize is really good, loads of nature things to do & glad we came; however the number of mosquitoes here really is a bad point, you can’t even get from the car to the room without being bitten. Also, the roads are primarily unmade; if you’re coming get a 4×4, a big one. Tomorrow, New York. Tomorrow, New York.