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San Pedro 20 miles give or take.

It was last year. Allegedly it was dug by the Mayans a couple of thousand years ago although some believe that's an urban myth - there was a thread about this recently and I don't have a clue which is true .... but it most certainly was not built for ships during WW2.

Sorry. No idea what your last two sentences mean.

I believe it was dug by the mayans like they say, why wouldn't it be? i think it would be fun to go and explore that area.., it takes a good while to get up there by boat.

Could have been carved by a hurricane too.

Deacon? Did I detect a racial remark from a man of the cloth? That if there was a narrow channel that Mexicans would flood into Belize. Shame on you.

Read Tim Jeffers, crackedup and my posts above. Also look at Chris photo.

The channel between Mexico and Belize is only 10 to 20 ft in many places as it passes through mangrove swamps. You can see that the Mexico only channel is around 150 ft or more. I have been through both channels with Mexican the military. If you had been through I doubt anyone would say it was done by a hurricane.

Belize has a Natl Park on the Northern end of AC both land and marine plus the security and drug issues mentioned in above posts . I would like to see a bridge to Mexico but I believe it has the same chance of happening as Hell or the channels freezing over.

As I understand it (from my tour guide course) the channel was dug much more recently than 2000 years ago, maybe 700, and was not a single channel but a series of small channels linking existing natural water basins. That's why it follows such a convoluted path.

There are several operators who run trips along the channel, and anyone with any interest in it should try one.

Deacon-

Here is your post again.

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deacon
Member # 8159 posted 02-04-2006 06:16 PM 02-04-2006 04:16PM

10 feet are you sure? I thought I read it was made for ships during WW11.10 ft. You would have more Mex. than San Diego. Thanks for info but NOT


You removed the above insensitive post that you made but never explained it or apologized for it. Just saying you will pray for me does not change your insensitive racial comment inferring that Belize would have more Mexicans than San Diego if they only had to swim 10ft.

In the past men such as Al Campanis in baseball and Howard Cosell (sports announcing) lost their jobs due to insensitive remarks about blacks. Neither were racist just used some bad judgment. Both apologized for their remarks.

I would expect the same from someone who claims to be the man you are. But then again maybe you are not the man you claim to be.

My daughter in law is Mexican and she couldn't believe a man who claims to be a minister would make such a remark.

The facts speak for themselves deacon. Did you make the post or was your 12 year old son on your computer?(I did keep a copy of the post)Apology accepted but it is not me you insulted its all the Mexicans. You are still in denial. I'm done with the subject now. You are not worth any more of my time.

Ah, you may have noticed that I deleted my comment above. Since I made that comment, certain things have come to my attention and with those comments I realized I would not have made the comment that I did. Didn't mean to offend anyone. God knows I have enough Mexicans in my family that I offend daily, not to mention all the Irish family members as well... and let's not even bring up the Scottish branch. Ugh...

Hey

Everybody is talking about 2 different channels. So there would actually need to be 2 bridges.

We don't need to keep out Mexicans - they don't want to be here!

The "river" /border between Mexico and Belize is only between 10 and 20 ft wide - okay wider in some areas, but certainly not an area that needs any sort of bridge in the foreseeable future.

The channel depicted in Chris' photo is how far from the border? Chris....