Zoo day

First off, I apologize for the previous post.  For some reason it messed up and I can't fix it, so the order of the blogs is now off and the text doesn't match up with the pics, but you can figure it out.

Now, on our last day inland we left the place we were staying at 9am.  I had heard that some people in the group had gone to this iguana place the previous day, and since I love lizards so much, I had to go.  And I am glad I did.  I walk to this resort at 7:50am and start the tour at 8am.  I get a brief intro and we head into the iguana area.  I see a buch of rather large iguanas and start snapping pics.

This guy's name is Gomes.  He was a fun iguana and also the biggest in the reserve.

He was very calm, cold, and people friendly.




The guy leading the tour decided to show me exactly how friendly Gomes and the other large iguana are.

Just when I thought I couldn't be happier, we head to the baby iguana area.  These little guys were still very green and young and were perfectly fine around people.  Since they were all comfortable around people, the guide decided to have some fun with me.

He starts by putting some of the smaller ones on my hand to hold and I snap some shots with my free hand (thanks to Colin for letting me use his camera).



The guide then gets a little lizard happy and starts sticking them all over my torso.  In the pic on the right I've got those 4 on me plus the ones in my hand.

He then goes a little overboard:

I think there are about 20-25 iguanas on me at this point (there were a couple on my back) and I couldn't be happier.  This set up the rest of my day perfectly.

Once we left San Ignacio, we headed to the belize zoo.  At the entrance there was a sign where you could buy passes for "encounters" with some of the animals.  One of which was the jaguar, so naturally I had to do it.  Five of us split the cost ($10 U.S. per person) and went straight to the jaguar cage.  Here is what we saw:
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In case you couldn't tell what was happening when I'm laughing and you can't see the jaguar's mouth at the end of the video, this is what was happening:

This wonderful shot (taken by Colin) made my day.

After the jaguar we continued around the zoo checking out the different animals.  Here's a shortened version of some of the cooler/funnier moments.
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