Our fist time was February of 1987. We arrived to dive for a week, stayed at the Paradise Hotel in a palapa. The weather was so windy that we couldn't dive every day, and ended up not using the "package" we'd bought....so Jerry McDermot who owned the Paradise said, "wish you guys were staying as I'd sure let you use the rest of your dives from the package" Little did he know that we WERE staying, and ended up in our friend Dottie's house behind the hotel for another two weeks (6 week trip in all!) and used all of our dives and then some. Claudio Trejo was our dive guide - he was the best. His son has returned to SP in fact. Jerry got us back though - he let us keep a tab at the bar while we remained on the Caye (does anybode else remember the Paradise bar? It was a blast!) and by the time we left, the tab was far more than the room would have cost!!

We have been returning ever since - lost count of the number of times two passports ago. Other memories are so profound and so dear, but I won't bore you all with them - it's still a magical place!! We now have a second home in Belize - and it's always in our hearts.