We had mixed feelings today. We love Caye Caulker and its laid-back feeling. On the other hand, we were really looking forward to returning to Cotton Tree Lodge and our friends there.

While Arnie slept in a slight bit, I went out to photograph. The sky was dark, portending a passing shower, but I decided to proceed. There were a couple of flowers I had in mind for this morning, and I spent a half hour or so before the rains came doing some macro work.

After breakfast and saying goodbye to new-found friends, Scott and Nick, the taxi took us down to the airport. I love these island airports. They tickle my fancy. Check out the luggage carts and the whole feel of the place. Across the way, where you can’t see, two eagles were in their nest high atop a telephone pole.

We hopped over to Belize City, then to the …

This morning, after finishing the first blog in this year’s travelog series from Belize, we went to breakfast. As I was munching on fresh mangos and melons, the unmistakable Lightroom screen caught my eye at the next table. Caye Caulker is a place where one easily strikes up a conversation, and the photographer responded that he loved LR3.

This series will be a travelogue. I did it last year, and it was well received. Our first workshop of 2011 is People & Culture of Belize, and we like to fly in a couple of days early in case there are weather delays with the airlines. We flew through Houston. Remember what is was like just a few days before the Super Bowl? Fortunately, the snow was gone, at least along our route, and there were no delays.

The Gulf of Mexico was fairly calm with the occasional boat and wake showing up a pristine white against the blue-green of the water.

That color was nothing, however, compared to what we flew over in the Caribbean on our way from Belize City to Caye (pronounced “key”) Caulker. It was quite windy, and the whipped-up lines of translucent white made interesting counterpoint lines to the ones on the sea floor…

You can’t put two photographers anywhere without their taking their cameras out to go exploring. Sure, we wer