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Holger is a management consultant turned volunteer. He loves to take pictures, run around in the sun, dive and he has never met a beer in his life he didn't like.
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Belize has a national animal (Tapir), a national tree (Mahagony), a national flower (Black Orchid) and a national bird (Keel Billed Toucan).
I was able to scratch Tapir, Mahagony and Black Orchid off of my list months ago, shortly after getting here.
But that Toucan … just didn’t want to show!
And it’s not like I didn’t try. At Maruba I even got up at 5 in the morning and walked along the road where they supposedly sit in the morning. Nopes. Didn’t work.
Earlier this year, we were staying at Chaa Creek and Frank and myself got up early again to go on a bird watching. Now – if you’re a regular reader you know how big of a fan of bird watching I am. But … Frank wanted to see the birds and so we went.
As we started the tour, our fantastic guide Micheky (not too sure about the spelling) gets a call on his radio and starts running. We take off after him and there he is. Sitting on a branch like he’s waiting for us.
We continued on walking and saw the hairy back ends of some howler monkey and a few little birds too elusive for this sleepy photographer.
Towards the end however, we met a family or Aricaris … technically they’re also Toucans. And they are not shy at all.
It was definitely worth it getting up early for those Toucans! (The bird watching being the reason why we were late to take off for Caracol, by the way.)
At the very end, Frank found this plant. Do you know what it is?
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Hi Paul, different Kerstin! :) Best Holger
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Awesome photos...thank you for posting!
BTW there is good toucan viewing at Mystic River Resort in Belize, as well as at Tikal National Park in Guatemala.