Saturday, February 22, 2014.
Did up a bit of beach art to note Gracyn turning 11 months old while here on Ambergris Caye in Belize. We had collected shells for the past week to get enough for the project. The Peanut more or less willingly participated in the photo op!
We went into town for lunch at Hurricane's. The catch of the day was grouper and the special was tostitos with blackened grouper. Nolan and I chowed down on this, it was very tasty. Munchkin tried the authentic Belize chicken. I had a taste, it was pretty darn good! It was another wonderful meal, still haven't had a bad one yet!
In town Brenda took Nolan into the art gallery for his opinion on some local art she is considering. Still not sure if she has made a choice yet.
Back at the ranch, Nolan and Brandyn took a go at snorkeling off the pier. They weren't able to see much as the wind was strong and there was a lot of silt disturbed. Bill from Oak Bay was on the dock to offer instructions and opinion about the boy's technique and abilities! Did not go over too well, really!
We had a young fellow stop by on his way home from work. Nolan was working at getting into a coconut
and the young gent said for a drink of water he would show us how to open a coconut in about 30 seconds without any tools! We took him up on it and in about 20 seconds he had a green nut husked! All he did was hold it the right way and pounded it against the trunk of the tree. The husk just split and peeled off with ease! The guy then said that the best coconut milk comes from the green ones.
He then promptly climbed one of the trees and knocked down two for us to try. Nolan took the challenge and using the new found technique was able to husk one lickedy split! The green coconut has much more milk than the the more ripe ones and it is better tasting, although the meat of the riper ones I prefer.
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