{"id":107,"date":"2014-12-09T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/?p=107"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:50:54","slug":"island-loo-at-frenchmans-caye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/island-loo-at-frenchmans-caye\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIsland Loo\u201d at Frenchman\u2019s Caye, Belize\u2014the simple life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/john-ellsworth-island-loo-imagetalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108 \" style=\"width: 570px;\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/john-ellsworth-island-loo-imagetalk-570x570.jpg\" alt=\"john-ellsworth-island-loo-imagetalk\" width=\"570\" height=\"570\" data-large-rendition=\"http:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/john-ellsworth-island-loo-imagetalk.jpg\" data-full-rendition=\"http:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/john-ellsworth-island-loo-imagetalk.jpg\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/?attachment_id=108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1972, I sailed with three friends to Belize and Guatemala from Florida on a 45-ft ketch, the <em>Thai<\/em>. It was owned and skippered by Ed Valier of Ft. Lauderdale. The vessel was a wooden Stonington.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting Lago Izabal in Guatemala, we replenished in Livingston. Upon leaving Livingston, we visited an island called Frenchman\u2019s Caye, just off the coast of Punta Gorda, Belize. It was owned by a former Navy underwater demolitions expert (frogman), Richard \u201cDick\u201d Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Dick was considered the first real underwater SCUBA diving pioneer in Belize. He settled on Frenchman\u2019s Caye after living in the Yucatan and diving the shipwreck \u201cMatanceros,\u201d a Spanish galleon that was apparently bound for the New World from the Old World.<\/p>\n<p>Dick ran a successful diving business from Fenchman\u2019s Caye, throughout the Great Honduras Reef during the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>He owned the entire island and enjoyed the luxury of \u201cspreading out\u201d\u2014He scattered all of his living stations over the whole island.<\/p>\n<p>This photo is of Dick Moore\u2019s island washroom, thus \u201cIsland Loo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Thai<\/em> was moored at Frenchman\u2019s Caye for about three days before getting underway for Placencia Cove, Belize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1972, I sailed with three friends to Belize and Guatemala from Florida on a 45-ft ketch, the Thai. It was owned and skippered by Ed Valier of Ft. Lauderdale. The vessel was a wooden Stonington. After visiting Lago Izabal in Guatemala, we replenished in Livingston. Upon leaving Livingston, we visited an island called Frenchman\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/island-loo-at-frenchmans-caye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cIsland Loo\u201d at Frenchman\u2019s Caye, Belize\u2014the simple life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48],"tags":[49,56,52,51,53,57,58,50,54],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-story","tag-belize","tag-camp","tag-cay","tag-caye","tag-dick-moore","tag-diving","tag-great-honduras-reef","tag-key","tag-scuba-camp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/john-ellsworth-island-loo-imagetalk-e1418124765974.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bW7P-1J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnellsworth.com\/imagetalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}