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Affordable Winter Trips in the Caribbean

Baua Electric

Placencia, Belize On the southern coast of Belize , the laid-back beach town of Placencia , on the tip of a 16-mile-long peninsula, offers access to the Belize Barrier Reef offshore and a bohemian town center. A small guesthouse modeled in French colonial style, Alux House has studios designed to sleep two from $105 a night.

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Watery, Peaceful, Wild: The Call of the Mangroves

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St Jago pointed out fiddler crabs and mussels, and described differences of the local mangrove species — the red, white and black — and how they adapted to live and propagate where water meets land. The roots can arch up, pop up spikelike from the water or form stilts above and under the surface. Coral reefs get all the attention.

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