This is Belize: Seriously, Earl was barely a Class 1 hurricane?

Part of the Dive Bar pier, I think. So much debris has washed up from so many piers that are no longer there.

 

This morning, first light, at The Cloisters, Ambergris Caye, Belize.

There is debris everywhere from docks that were wiped out, up the coast. Ours is gone too.

Looking south, The Palapa Bar is gone too.

This was The Cloisters on Tuesday afternoon. That pier is completely gone.

Hardly any docks are standing, including the brand new one built just north of us at The Dive Bar. Some of the debris shattered doors on first floor units sending sand and water inside and driving the occupants to the second floor.

I can’t imagine what the toll must be in downtown San Pedro or in the low-lying wooden-structure villages like San Mateo.

I hear Ramon’s and Ecologic lost their docks as well. Someone said there is hardly a dive shop left.

Some photos on Facebook for you from around town:

Pictures from Corrie Sternberg, on Boca del Rio and near the Palapa Bar’s wreckage.

Pictures from Jorge Aldana, farther down the beach, near Wahoo’s

Karen Brodie’s photo of Jodie and Scott Harnish picking through the wreckage of their Palapa Bar.

And this was barely a Category 1 Hurricane.

Thanks a lot, Earl.

This morning at the Cloisters: