Sat, 27 Feb
My first full day at Chaa Creek ... a few more photos of 'our house'
this the living area .... my bed is just around the corner to the right
this is the front of the house ... funny, ... we were standing in the front yard, and 3 horses from the stables come up the road, and they walk right onto our yard and start feeding.
Eddi took me for a walk along The Medicine Trail through the RainForest. She has been developing the Interpretive Center for the Medicine Trail during the 3 weeks that she's been here.
Don Elijio Panti is regarded as the last Maya Shaman master-healer of Belize. he died at 103, having passed his knowledge to Dr Rosita Arvigo, an American, who has been here for 20+ years.
i like this quote from him: ..."the soil is like a bank account, you must put in and put in and wait for the interest to grow before you start making withdrawls ... the rain forest is a depository of our future ... our planetary bank account". This Medicine Trail is an educational tour showing some of the plants he was so knowledgeable about.
Ceiba (say-ba) or Cotton Tree, is a giant of a tree, reaching 90ft.
Ancient Mayas revered it as The Sacred Tree of Life, connecting the gods of the underworld with gods above. the seed pods have a fluffy cotton used to make pillows and stuffing vests for airforce pilots during WWI
young trees have nobs/spines on their trunks which serve as structural defense against browing animals, because the wood is rather soft, .....the spines fall off as the tree matures, leaving a very smooth bark. these are the spines/nobs on a young tree ...
The Cohune Palm tree is largest palm in Central Am, up to 30ft. it is one source of the "Heart of Palm'. The tree must be destroyed to harvest the 'heart' in the centre, ...makes me not want to eat Heart of Palm any longer :(
that's 'little' me down there on the bottom left ..
....each of the small nuts contain a tiny coconut used locally to produce cooking oi. the outer shell of the nuts makes a charcoal used in WWII in filtration masks. NASA also uses the activated charcoal in the space program. These things would kill you if they ever fell on you; ... they are so heavy !
Bay Leaf Palm is the preferred palm for roof thatching, it's waterproof and can last for 25-30 yrs if well maintained. it is becoming scare due to habitat loss and over-harvesting. Chaa Creek has established a regeneration program. it has extremely dense wood that does NOT float, for that reason it is used to build piers, docks, sea walls
this is the All Spice tree, which obviously produces the All Spice berry, it has a beautiful creamy smooth bark that peels away much like our birch bark
me, with a very cool, large leaf ... at this point ..unknown to me :)
this is the front of the house ... funny, ... we were standing in the front yard, and 3 horses from the stables come up the road, and they walk right onto our yard and start feeding.
Eddi took me for a walk along The Medicine Trail through the RainForest. She has been developing the Interpretive Center for the Medicine Trail during the 3 weeks that she's been here.
Don Elijio Panti is regarded as the last Maya Shaman master-healer of Belize. he died at 103, having passed his knowledge to Dr Rosita Arvigo, an American, who has been here for 20+ years.
i like this quote from him: ..."the soil is like a bank account, you must put in and put in and wait for the interest to grow before you start making withdrawls ... the rain forest is a depository of our future ... our planetary bank account". This Medicine Trail is an educational tour showing some of the plants he was so knowledgeable about.
Ceiba (say-ba) or Cotton Tree, is a giant of a tree, reaching 90ft.
Ancient Mayas revered it as The Sacred Tree of Life, connecting the gods of the underworld with gods above. the seed pods have a fluffy cotton used to make pillows and stuffing vests for airforce pilots during WWI
young trees have nobs/spines on their trunks which serve as structural defense against browing animals, because the wood is rather soft, .....the spines fall off as the tree matures, leaving a very smooth bark. these are the spines/nobs on a young tree ...
The Cohune Palm tree is largest palm in Central Am, up to 30ft. it is one source of the "Heart of Palm'. The tree must be destroyed to harvest the 'heart' in the centre, ...makes me not want to eat Heart of Palm any longer :(
that's 'little' me down there on the bottom left ..
....each of the small nuts contain a tiny coconut used locally to produce cooking oi. the outer shell of the nuts makes a charcoal used in WWII in filtration masks. NASA also uses the activated charcoal in the space program. These things would kill you if they ever fell on you; ... they are so heavy !
Bay Leaf Palm is the preferred palm for roof thatching, it's waterproof and can last for 25-30 yrs if well maintained. it is becoming scare due to habitat loss and over-harvesting. Chaa Creek has established a regeneration program. it has extremely dense wood that does NOT float, for that reason it is used to build piers, docks, sea walls
this is the All Spice tree, which obviously produces the All Spice berry, it has a beautiful creamy smooth bark that peels away much like our birch bark
me, with a very cool, large leaf ... at this point ..unknown to me :)
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