tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38261651386560536812011-04-21T15:37:17.563-07:00I'm going to use this blog as a personal notebook for my sightings/observations on Ambergris Caye and its collection of small mangrove cays and lagoons.PADI Staff Instructor Elbert Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624842637449726211noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3826165138656053681.post-71234322640453197642008-12-21T12:12:00.000-08:002008-12-21T12:13:57.906-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/SU6jMQJaXjI/AAAAAAAAAq0/Ehqhtr6Sgpg/s1600-h/book+photo+cover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 303px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/SU6jMQJaXjI/AAAAAAAAAq0/Ehqhtr6Sgpg/s400/book+photo+cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282338843840372274" /></a><br /><a href="http://www2.xlibris.com/books/webimages/wd/47589/">http://www2.xlibris.com/books/webimages/wd/47589/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3826165138656053681-7123432264045319764?l=belizebirdblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PADI Staff Instructor Elbert Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624842637449726211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3826165138656053681.post-53236359255133956482007-04-10T15:42:00.000-07:002008-12-10T05:31:37.097-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/RhwS6q0GwpI/AAAAAAAAACo/kAroTO7bwBI/s1600-h/old+map.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/RhwS6q0GwpI/AAAAAAAAACo/kAroTO7bwBI/s400/old+map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051933681137402514" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: black;">AMBERGRIS CAYE <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Perfumeries of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> in the 16^th century sought after ambergris, the desired rare ingredient needed to supply their wealthy pompous clientele of twitching olfactory receptors with aromatic stimuli, perfume. The hottest industry in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region> was for a century dependent on the highly sought after ambergris, a substance secreted by temporarily infirm whales.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>As the whale consumed its limit of indigestible shrimp, krill, grit, octopus beaks and sour Sargasso polyps, the objectionable indigestible build-up was disposed of as vomitus bile, regurgitated into the warm gulf of its winter home.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="color: black;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>In 1775 <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Whale</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Puke</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Island</st1:placetype></st1:place> could have been its name had the chart maker for Her Majesty's ship had any sense of humor.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3826165138656053681-5323635925513395648?l=belizebirdblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PADI Staff Instructor Elbert Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624842637449726211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3826165138656053681.post-20537649885819887052007-04-07T13:38:00.000-07:002008-12-10T05:31:37.342-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/RhgBatEL5tI/AAAAAAAAACU/uchmHfWweoE/s1600-h/belizecolormap2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/RhgBatEL5tI/AAAAAAAAACU/uchmHfWweoE/s400/belizecolormap2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050788540381390546" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3826165138656053681-2053764988581988705?l=belizebirdblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PADI Staff Instructor Elbert Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624842637449726211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3826165138656053681.post-35339304534289666522007-04-06T12:07:00.000-07:002008-12-10T05:31:37.486-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/RhaakdEL5rI/AAAAAAAAACA/aykLIWMP7jY/s1600-h/map+with+numbered+loc.%27s.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_88j5Da_5fWs/RhaakdEL5rI/AAAAAAAAACA/aykLIWMP7jY/s400/map+with+numbered+loc.%27s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050393983210743474" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3826165138656053681-3533930453428966652?l=belizebirdblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PADI Staff Instructor Elbert Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624842637449726211noreply@blogger.com0