With the crates safely loaded Jose displayed Formula 1 type skills to get me to the Municipal Airport with five minutes to spare. Jose though came to the rescue when he managed to persuade Caribbean Depot and Shipping Services ( a rival barge operator) to use their forklift. The time was getting closer and closer to 17.00 hours, four hours after arriving at the Port, and I was starting to get worried that I would miss the last flight of the day (17.30 hours) back to Ambergris Caye. Straight to Krystal Shipping’s barge where we sat and we sat waiting for a forklift to unload the crates. Large crate exiting the warehouse on a forklift.
We now had to get them moved to the Krystal Shipping barge and after what seemed an age (probably because it was) the crates were loaded on to a lorry (truck for non UK readers). We were then allowed in to the warehouse where we quite quickly found our crates I tried- aimlessly- to argue that the invoice value was incorrect but ultimately I paid the price. With the paperwork signed we headed across the road to the warehouse where I found out that there was an invoice for the sum of BZ$ 143.50 to be paid (storage and loading charges) to the Port of Belize Limited before the consignment would be released. Until we found a Custom’s official who had authority to sign off the paperwork. We started off at the Cashier’s to locate the consignmentĪnd then went from corridor to corridor, to empty office after empty office (well it was lunch time) Goldson International Airport – and within ten minutes Jose Gomez of Belize Logistics Services Limited collected me and we went straight to the Customs Department to obtain permission to move the two crates of personal stuff that we had shipped from the UK. We landed shortly after 12.30 hours – after dropping off three passengers at the Philip S.W. Maya is running a promotional offer during the month of October and my single ticket cost me BZ$63 in stead of the usual BZ$89.
I must have been making a bit too much noise (or just enough noise, if you know what I mean!) because it wasn’t long before Rose joined me and then it was a case of ‘many hands make light work’!Īfter showering, shaving and dressing I had time for a late breakfast before Rose took me to the Maya Island Air terminal to catch the 12.00 hour flight to Belize City’s Municipal Airport. With the edition out of the way I started ‘work’ on the clean-up/packing that we have to go through before moving from the condo we have been renting during our build in Ambergris Caye, Belize. It didn’t last too long though and I was able to complete yesterday’s edition in the fresh breeze that followed the rain. Up at around 04.00 hours yesterday morning and managed to spend a bit of time on the veranda before the rain started and I had to move inside.
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