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Eventually we were
able to find the edges of the temple.
From there we measured the mound, it was
fifty-eight by fifty-five feet on the top
level, assuming that the jungle and soil
had covered up the base level. The height
was at least six feet but we assumed that
another couple of feet were below the
ground.
The limestone rocks are
completely loose, just a stack or pile of
rocks, all the original limestone based
mortar, used in construction, having long
since crumbled and washed away. The site
to be better seen and explored needs to be cleared and excavated then its relationship to
Ambergris Caye may be better understood.
From Bercellon we back tracked to the
airstrip, then we walked west to the end
of the airstrip and continued west into
marshy jungle, Sam had brought his
sixteen gauge shot gun and knew a
watering hole where we might see a pig or
deer. We didn't, but along the way we passed a tree
with what appeared to be broken Ostrich
sized eggs strewn underneath it. I looked around for the
creatures that came from the eggs before
noticing that they actually came from the tree which is known for its gourd like fruit.
When
we got to the watering hole there were no
game animals, but if I had thought there
were a lot of mosquitoes before, there
were ten times as many here. Even Dino
got out his mosquito mask and I noticed
mosquitoes covering everyone's back
as we were walking back out, to the
airstrip.
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