Every winter the migrating ducks visit and hang around in the water 

in front of Corozal Bay Resort

We call them the Canadian Ducks but no idea where they are really from.

They hang around for a few months and one day they are gone.
They like it here because we prohibit anyone from bothering them.

We had one duck who seems to have been left behind and lived here all

year.  

That lone duck would spend his day wandering around the Corozal Bay 

Resort property and slept under one of the cabaña rooms.

When the other ducks arrived he joined them.

Our Logo

Wow, it has been ages since an update.
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Jade Head

The Belize Institute of Archaeology and the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) brought the world famous Jade Head to Corozal Town today for a 1 day visit at the Corozal Town Hall.
I have lived in Belize since 1969 and this is the first time I have had the opportunity to see it in person. All I can say is WOW!


Altun Ha - "Rockstone Pond" is located 31 miles north of Belize City on the Old Northern Highway. This ancient Mayan site was a wealthy ceremonial center boasting two main plazas, thirteen structures (including the Temple of Sun God or the Temple of the Masonry Altars). It was here that the famous Jade Head was discovered in 1968 by Dr. David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada and several of his Belizean workers.
The Jade Head, along with forty other objects, had been placed within a large tomb that was located below the stair block on the Temple of Masonry Alters (Structure B4).
The tomb contained the remains of an elderly adult male; who was likely an important ruler of the site during his lifetime. This individual may have commissioned an artist to produce the Jade Head to commemorate an important event in his life. No one knows the exact date the Jade Head was carved, but analysis of cultural remains within the tomb suggest that the burial, and accompanying grave goods, were deposited in the structure sometime between 600 and 650 A.D.


Weighing 9.75 Pounds (4.422 KiloGrams) and standing almost 6 inches (15.24 Centimeters) high, the Jade Head remains the single largest carved jade object yet discovered in the Maya area. Its crossed eyes, fang-like elements on either side of the mouth, and the Ahau glyph on the forehead all indentify the head as a representation of the Mayan Sun God Kinich Ahau.

Display showing where the skeleton and Jade Head were located at Altun Ha

Close up showing exactly where the jade head was located with the skeleton

Shell jewelry found together with the Jade Head

An employee of NICH and also friend and customer of Corozal Bay Resort

Jade necklace found in same tomb where the Jade Head was located

Mayan Flint Tools found at Jade Head site

Clay Pottery from Altum Ha Jade Head tomb

Hundreds of Corozal Town school children waiting for their turn to see the Jade Head for the first time in their life

Chinese New Year in Corozal Town

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Went to town today and the Corozal Chinese Community were celebrating their New Year.

Lots of firecrackers and the Dragon Dance in front of Chinese owned business.

Walking Paths to Rooms

Our son Hans dropped our digital camera and broke it so we have not had any additions to our blog. We now have a new camera and so the story continues.

We have started building some walkways to each cabaña room. What happened is that when it rains hard we were getting some large puddles of water and you would have to wade through them to the rooms. Also the fine sand gets squishy and you track it into your room.

We always enjoy starting a new project.

Maria spreading the gravel on our first walkway.

I was always against making walking paths because I love the sand, but they were really necessary in the rainy season.

Me pretending to work.

Rocky doing the real hard work using a wheelbarrow to haul small rocks for the base and gravel to top off the walking paths.

One path almost finished.

Our son Wolff putting in his share of hard work.

Branching off to cabaña room # 2

Time to relax after finishing off the path to cabaña room #1.

Parking Lot Planter

We are working on a center divider for our parking lot.

We hope to get customers to parallel park and have more parking space when it is done. The divider has a planter in it where we are planting some palms, other flowers and adding lights to illuminate the parking lot.

We had some large palms growing on our property and transplanted them into the planter. Saves a lot of time waiting for them to grow. :)

Street Sign Finished

Here is the new Corozal Bay Resort sign next to our entrance gate. Maria planted a rock garden in front and put in many nice plants.
We built a thatch roof over the sign for looks and installed lights so it is well lit up at night.
It looks great!
In the bottom photos you can see how Mayan heads look on the new sign.

Welcome to Corozal Bay Resort

Welcome to the very first post in our new Corozal Bay Resort / Podzun Family Blog. This is something completely new to me. So here goes...

We are working on our new sign on the roadside. Some people had commented that they would drive past our resort and miss it because we had only a small sign and they would not see it. So we decided to build a better sign. This one will be large, attractive and illuminated at night.

35 years ago my Mom (Lottie Podzun) sculpted a couple of Mayan heads out of concrete. These heads were located on the veranda of the second floor of my parents house, overlooking the front yard. When they sold their house and moved back to Canada, the new owner removed the heads and was going to throw them away. We got them and had the heads laying around the yard for years. While our mason was laying the blocks for the new sign we discovered a great place for the heads. We decided to place one head on each side of what will be our new sign.

Here is a picture of one of my Mom's Mayan heads that was just attached to the sign and Maria enjoying it's shade.

Here is another photo of our full time construction guy Ronald, cementing the head on to the sign.

After 35 years my Mom's Mayan head have finally found a great new home.