CASKE 2000

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM BLUE CREEK, TOLEDO (BELIZE)

You can click on a photo to see the next one, or just select some by themes from the list bellow

Iguana Catch and Release ( Text )

Pedro looking up  ;  First catch  ;  JP with small iguana  ;  2nd catch  ;  2nd catch 2  ;  Head  ;  Luke  ;  JP and big iguana 1  ;  JP and big iguana 2  ;  Release  ;  Iguana 1  ;  Iguana 2  ;  Iguana 3

Children of Blue Creek ( Text )

School Children 1  ;  School Children 2  ;  School Children 3  ;  School Children 4  ;  Child 1  ;  Child 2  ;  Child 3  ;  Child 4  ;  Children

Cacao Preparation ( Text )

Green Cacao Fruit  ;  Collecting ripe fruits   ;  Open Fruit  ;  Adults like it  ;  Kids love it  ;  Removing seeds  ;  Seed drying 1  ;   Seed drying 2  ;  Seed drying 3  ;  Seed drying 4  ;  Grinding into powder  ;  Making a cacao paste 1   ;  Making a cacao paste 2  ;   The drink is ready  ;  All the steps

Sugar Cane Preparation ( Text )

Heraldo in his sugar cane field  ;  Showing us the angled cut  ;  The family at work to extract sugar  ;  The bucket is full  ;  Luke and Heraldo enjoying the juice

Mayan and Kekchi Cuisine ( Text )

Grinding corn  ;  Killing the chicken   ;  Plucking the chicken  ;  Cutting it  ;  Making Corn Tortillas  ;  Making Tortillas and Soup  ;  Chicken Soup  ;   The meal is served  ;  Ignacio, JP and Luke eating  ;  Husking Rice 1  ;  Husking Rice 2

Weaving  Baskets and other Crafts ( Text Baskets ; Text Fan )

Baskets: Jippi Jappa Palm  ;  Using Young Palms  ;  Stripping the palm   ;  Boiling the palm  ;  Drying the palm  ;  Starting the Weaving  ;  The basket takes shape  ;  Craft display

Fans: Slash and Burn  ;  Making a fan  ;  JP is learning 1   ;  JP is learning 2  ;  JP is finishing his fan

Snakes and Tarantulas ( Text )

Green-Tree-Snake 1  ;  Green-Tree-Snake 2   ;  Coral Snake 1  ;  Coral Snake 2  ;  Fer-de-lance 1  ;  Fer-de-lance 2  ;  Snail-Snake 1  ;   Snail-Snake 2  ;  Tarantula 1  ;  JP and Tarantula  ;  Tarantula

Wet Cave Exploration

Photo 1  ;  Photo 2  ;  Photo 3   ;  Photo 4

Blue Creek Lodge:  Photo

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Living from the Rainforest (Survival Skills)

Edible Plants from the Rainforest

Cohune Palm ( Text )

Logging the tree  ;  Feeding from the heart   ;  The edible part  ;  Cutting the bark  ;  removing the bark 1  ;  removing the bark 2  ;  cutting the end  ;   Ready to be served  ;  Delicious jungle lunch

Waree Palm ( Text )

Plant with Flowers   ;   Opening the Flower   ;   Collecting the Fruits   ;   Cutting the nuts   ;   Nuts and Flowers   ;   Open nuts and Flowers   ;   Opening a nut with the teeth   ;   Getting to the heart 1   ;   Getting to the heart 2   ;   Heart and Shoot   ;   The Heart ready to eat

Jippi Jappa Palm

The plant   ;   The shoot   ;   The edible part   ;   Ignacio eating it   ;   The edible flower

Hog Plum

JP eating Hog Plum   ;   The plant 

Water Vine

Water Vine in the forest   ;  JP drinking from the vine

Shelter Making ( Text )

Cutting palms  ;  Splitting palms   ;  Structure  ;  layering the palms  ;  Tying with vines  ;  Last layer  ;  Luke under finished shelter

Trapping ( Text Birds ; Text Moles )

Birds: Wood cage 1  ;  Wood cage 2   ;  Rope 1  ;  Rope 2  ;  Bird caught  ;  Kid

Ground Moles: How it works  ;  The underground setting   ;  Patching the hole  ;  Covering  ;  The trap is set

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Note for publishers: These photos were taken with a digital camera. We will soon have similar photos available on slides or high resolution files for publishing. For more information email: J-Philippe Soule (photographer).

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