I confess our nap at 2pm yesterday turned into a full night…….. that’s what happens when you miss a full night’s sleep.
The upside is that we woke refreshed and ready to go around 7pm this morning……. What woke me was the strange noises drifting through the window. The resort is indeed away from it all; our neighbours are mostly of the feathered kind. I have yet to identify where these mysterious calls came from which makes them all the more exotic. Upon stepping out onto our balcony, I spotted hummingbirds, grackles and a variety of yet to be identified species…….. the blue, yellow, red, orange and black feathered flashes, hopped, bounced and swooped through the nearby trees and bushes.
Hunger drove us in for breakfast, a “Belizean breakfast” is coffee, scrambled eggs, bacon, re-fried beans, fruit and fried jacks ( a flat round of dough, cut in half and deep fried, resulting in a very tasty puffy pocket to fill) yum!
Our breakfast finished we wandered back to our room to find two howler monkeys partaking of their breakfast in “our” tree. These two were quietly picking off and eating the flesh of the bountiful pods. Howler monkeys are often seen and heard here; after all we are in the jungle! It never ceases to amaze me how such a relatively small animal can make such a huge guttural howl!!! Guess that generous chin and throat is put to good use………. according to the Guinness book of world records their vocalization’s can be heard for 20 miles.
Maybe we will get another kind of wakeup call tomorrow?
