About ACES / American Crocodile Education Sanctuary - James Jensen

My name is James Fredrick Jensen I am a Canadian that lived in Belize on the Island of San Pedro, this is another chapter of my Novella about the time that past after my Wife Janis Died in Central America.

This chapter is the second of the series called “About Vince and Cherie Chenot Rose”. Vince and Cherie Chenot Rose lived in Punta Gorda Belize a small town on the southern tip of Belize. The Rose’s owned a small resort and Crocodile Sanctuary named  ACES / American Crocodile Education Sanctuary.

I met the Rose’s on the Island of San Pedro two weeks after I had placed my wife Jan’s ashes into the Ocean as part of her services, more so it was Jan’s request to be cremated and set off to sea. Jan and I owned a small Liquor Store, sometimes bar, sometimes wholesale business called the Liquor Box.

After meeting the Roses on this crocodile hunter they were on the Island of San Pedro I was invited to come to Punta Gorda and see there resort and to explore the idea of opening a Liquor store in Punta Gorda with the Roses as partners.

A week or so went by and I decided okay it would be good for me to get off this Island Jan was and still is constantly in my mind a great pleasure to still have close to me.

In order to get to Punta Gorda one has to fly from the Island of San Pedro to Belize city and then to Punta Gorda on Tropic Airlines. Jan and I had used Tropic Airlines to fly all our Liquor for the Liquor Box from Belize. Thus I had a discount on all flights. A good start I thought.

Tropic has a fleet of small aircraft for Island and short run hopping this day I got to fly up front I knew the Captain a regular at the Liquor Box as all Tropic employees had a discount at the Liquor Box.

The flight to Punta Gorda with all the stops along the way takes a few hours. The flight itself is almost like an arial tour type ride. You fly low and cover the entire cost line of Belize from one end to the other.

The landing in Punta Gorda well kind of like sky diving with airplane. You arrive at a trailer as the baggage claim area and ticket office appears as you deplane.

Vince and Cherie were there to meet me and to head off to show me Punta Gorda and the Building they owned that could be finished into a Liquor Store.

PG as Punta Gorda is called is not much. It has a main street, a few bars not many restaurants  although Vince and Cherie Rose had a local place along the beach we stopped at on the way out of PG for a few drinks.

A few beers turned into many and we headed home before dark to the ACES / American Crocodile Education Sanctuary resort and crocodile resort.

Vince drove and Cherie talked I mean that girl a few beers and off she goes. Me I was watching as the paved rod ended, then the gravel road ended, then we drove past the dump, then we arrived at ACES / American Crocodile Education Sanctuary and Resort.

Okay even for a boy with a lot of adventure this was off the grid. You enter into a clearing in the jungle and  you see a few building’s then a huge home which opens up into a lagoon and the ocean. Beside this amazing home is crocodile pens. With yes lots of Crocodiles.

Vince got me unloaded and we hauled my stuff to this Casita they had build it was amazing. Back to the main jungle house which had everything a home in downtown Bolder Colorado would have.

An amazing back looking down the lagoon. More beer and it was time for me to bed down for the night as we had a lot of business to talk about over the next few days.

Sleep came with complications that first night, howler monkeys which underscores there name were out in force. And once and a while a crocodile ate something.

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