I spent last week bumming around in Belize with Julia, my food-frakking deputy, and some family. Rather than bore you with my vacation photos, I will tell the story of the holiday through the Zombie Lapdance lens. In other words, picture of fish, weird animals, and strange food.
I can’t take much credit for the bonitos that were caught, it was someone else’s gear, but I was perfectly happy to reel in the little fish and take some photos.
Dolphins? Yeah, there were stinking dolphins.
All the locals were amazed that turtles hatched this late in the year. It’s something that folks in Belize pay attention to.
I would like to introduce you to the biggest and ugliest hermit crab in the world.
If you jostled it, the crab would retract into the shell so fast that the sudden jerk would almost knock it out of your hands.
There are a bunch of osprey in Belize.
When we had dinner at the Secret Garden restaurant in Placencia, a starfruit tree hung over the table. This fruitbat only liked the over-ripe starfruit.
It was directly over my head when I took this picture.
The food in Belize was disappointingly normal. The grocery stores contained a lot of American foods, with a few digressions into Salvadoran snacks that I’ve bought here in Austin, like these Carnavalitos and Cheetos-esque snacks.
The Carnavalitos were just colored popcorn with a sugary coating.
The Valentones were also fairly standard, flour chicharrones with lime and chile flavoring.
Don’t worry, they cost $2 of Belizian currency, which in USD is closer to $1.
These lemon wafers came all the way from Sri Lanka.
Julia found these fried plantain chips at the Belize City international airport.
They tasted much like potato chips, in the sense that they were crispy, salty and oily, but they had a hint of fruity flavor that potato chips only wished they had.
At the restaurant off the Placencia main drag I had a seaweed shake.
It tasted almost exactly like a frozen eggnog.
This is all I can show you of the Intenso.
An image of the cookies themselves would be too much for you to handle.
