Succession in Belize
IN OCTOBER 2001, Hurricane Iris ransacked Belize, leveling trees, flooding fields and streets, and driving more than 15,000 people from their homes before vanishing into the ether somewhere over Central America.
One year before the storm, veteran Belizean guide Charles Leslie Sr. opened Tarpon Caye Lodge, an eight-acre mangroveand-sand outpost off the coast of Placencia. Within hours of Iris making landfall, the lodge was no more.
