before and after - dining hall

Second part of the great reveal, today we are showing you the dining hall! Months and months of work...but the results were worth it!

First week in the Hall, a little discouraged, I still had no idea what was coming up.

This room is where the tables are now in the next picture, this makeshift room was torn down for an open feel!

drumroll....here is the new dining hall

Another picture of the dining hall

We still have to add 3-4 tables but it is almost complete

Before and After...this is it!

Allright, I hope you are ready faithful readers, after months and months of working on the buildings etc, we are getting really close to the big reveal. In the next couple of weeks we will start showing you the before and after of the different rooms.

The first one today is quite the shocker! The student lounge component of the main building. Remember the real fixer upper from House Hunters, we'll check it out now.

The student Lounge, opening to lab and the rotten stairway fell off the wall

TaDah! The new student lounge, tiled, new partitions, new paint job and new staircase

We really want to thank all of those who helped us with this great looking work, Brendan, Chris, Jerm, The ramirez crew and the great neighbours! Thank you! Oh and Diesel of course! Keep posted, there will be lot's more of these kind of posts!

Stairway to compound

The morning before Chris's flight home we started working at 6h00 am with the guys to get the base of the stairway from the cabins area to the main building. We managed to get the stair trusses in for the top stairway and the foundations of the decks built. Then we jumped in the truck and drove like mad to Belize City, so they could catch their plane.

Big O testing out the foundations to the deck and stairs

The week after Vanessa and I and the guys finished up the 2 stairways, the multiple decks and gate to the lower part of the center. The stairs look awesome and the decks allow visitors to stop at a couple of areas to look at the mountains, do some bird watching and just enjoying the view! The top deck gives us another location to hang out at the end of a hard day!

The three tiered stairway

Eva enjoying the new viewing spot

Looking down to gate from deck 2

Top deck 1, excellent for birdwatching and just plain out relaxing

Yoga Retreat Workshops

Ecorana is proud to announce that it will be offering Yoga Retreat in the Spring 2013! If you are interested please visit us at http://ecorana.ca/yoga-retreat-in-belize/

Getting Closer

Hello everyone, we are very sorry for the delay in postings! We have now been here about a year and we are getting very close to being able to open the station for business! So we have rolled up our sleeves and are working even harder than before to have the station fully operational for January 2012!

Our biggest hurddle right now is to have all of the facilities ready for January! Vanessa's family came down to help out and with the great leadership of Chris we now have a beautiful shower building! We still have some plumbing and minor construction to do but it looks great! I am very proud to introduce out new solar shower facilities at T.R.E.E.S

Phase 1 - Posts into the ground!

Phase 2- Base platform set-up!

Phase 3 - Making sure everything is leveled up! Ready for the building!

Phase 4 - The building itself! It is Eva approved! Thanks Chris!!!

I will add a couple picture one we have doors and a everything is hooked up!

The work shed

It took about 6 months and three different contractors as well as work from us and the neighbours but we have finally built the work shed. This outdoor building has 5 ports in total, 2 car ports, 2 work area ports and a beautiful workshop. It is a large covered area with electricity so can work at night and when it is raining, nothing can stop us now!

Phase 1 - this phase lasted about 6 months, I had pretty much given up on the project!

Phase 2 - The roof, a good start that took lots of effort to get there! The tractor was happy at least!

 Phase 3 - Finally the completed shed, includes electricity, rain water collection cistern, and tool shop. A great spot to work in the rain, a place to put all of the lumber and the vehicles! Awesome!!!

Comments and emails

Hello dear readers, a few of you have sent us some great comments and some of you have written with some questions about the station, positions available etc. Unfortuneatly, Blogger are not providing us with the email of these comments.

Again, we kindly request that for specific questions about the station you visit our website at www.ecorana.ca or send us an email at info@ecorana.ca ! Your questions are valuable to us!

Thanks,

The Ecorana Team!