Caye Caulker, Belize – At Maria's Laundromat
LaFleur blooms abroad. But she’s still not the talkative type. Even on this speck of an island off the coast of Belize, among strangers, she guards her words and remains a cautious voyeur, an instinctive anthropologist observing the locals with minimal interference. After settling our canoe rental debt with the tanned, tattooed Canadian woman at [...]
North of the Split, Caye Caulker, Belize
The uninhabited island to the north of the Split rests beneath an impenetrable knitting of jungle, skirted along its borders by mangroves. We paddle a canoe among the dendtritic roots of the mangrove trees in search of elusive seahorses, but find only a black, buzzing fog of mosquitoes on the shoreline. Occasionally, a rickety dock [...]
