WHAT'S NEW AT MYSTIC RIVER RESORT.....

Green News from our Garden....

After many years spent growing vegetables at another location, we were fortunate to have Mr. Martinez join our team. He started our organic garden and is now supplying our kitchen with fresh produce everyday. There is nothing quite like the feeling of eating fresh lettuce knowing that it has just been picked a few minutes ago!!

Apart from leaf lettuce, we are currently growing green peppers, tomatoes, cauliflower, brocoli, spinach, zucchini, cabbage, radishes, along with various herbs, including fresh mint which we are now using to make our deliciously refreshing mohitos! Our kitchen waste is now divided between all our "pets" and the rest is composted under the watchful eye of Mr. Martinez.

Our 40 laying hens have been busy working overtime to produce some excellent eggs for our kitchen, and our younger guests have had lots of fun chosing some for their breakfast!
We are now also able to supply our kitchen with a constant stream of free range chickens.




And in our efforts to minimize garbage, Tom has built us a can crusher, which he was happy to demonstrate for this newsletter!!


News from our Units.....
Riverview Suite #11, Purple Heart, is nearing completion and should be available for the Christmas season. It has a separate bedroom and living room and we cannot wait to have our first guests stay in it! Pictures will be available when the unit is finished....
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News from our trails...
Come join us at "Sunset Point", a beautiful new area on the upper side of Mystic River Resort, where you can admire the amazing colours of sunset.


There is something to be said for "leaving stuff behind"! Some of our past guests have left behind shoes or other items they no longer want, shoes mainly, and being the "rat pack" that I am, I never throw things away! Well it recently paid off very well! A young couple staying with us were due to go to the ATM Caves and we found out they had no close toed shoes which could be a bit of an issue. So we went to the "goody bag" and we tried on some shoes and sure enough we found a pair for each one of them that fit very nicely thank you very much! And to give credit where credit is due, thank you Jong and thank you Ellie. We could not have done it without you!

Next, some words about Hurricane Richard....
As you probably all know by now, Belize was hit by a small Category 1 hurricane named Richard. The brunt of the storm landed in Belmopan, our capital, where the winds did some major damage. A lot of trees were laying down, either uprooted or broken and Guanacaste National Park looks like a ghost park now, which is truly heartbreaking. Power lines and poles were down alongside the road to Belize City and a lot of homes are still without power and some without roofs! Our beloved Belize Zoo suffered much damage and will be closed till the end of November. However, all the animals are safe and accounted for!! We had surprisingly very little rain which in itself is quite a blessing.
At Mystic River we consider ourselves lucky that we had no structural damage, only broken trees and branches all over the place, and our guests splept soundly! We lost some pretty Prickly Yellows and Gumbo Limbos. Clean up is underway and we are happy to say that it is business as usual here. Here are some photos.





When all is said and done, we feel very fortunate that nobody was hurt and that all our friends and neighbours fared like us with no major damage, just loss of trees. But we all know that in the jungle, things grow fast and will recover quickly.

And finally, once again, we want to thank all our past guests for making us number 1 on Trip Advisor. Your reviews have put us at the top, but we need to keep them coming or we will drop!! So please, take a minute of two and if you have not done so already, just write a few words about us. The link is below. That will make our day.....
From Tom and I and all our staff, thank you very very much.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g291971-d1418982-Reviews-Mystic_River_Resort-San_Ignacio_Cayo.html