BELIZE ADVENTURE BLOG

By Slickrock Adventures | October 28, 2015

In an earlier blog we talked about the devastating drought that has affected all of Central America, including Belize. Well, the peak of the rainy season, Sept/Oct, has changed everything. This last week a slow moving tropical storm swept across Belize, creating torrential rains in the northern part of the country. It rained between 10″ and 23″ in various parts of the country, a huge t

By Slickrock Adventures | October 21, 2015

The current El Nino is not only affecting weather patterns across the US and the Caribbean, but it has also set in motion another widespread coral bleaching event. Coral bleaching occurs when ocean temperatures rise too much above average, and the coral organism reacts by discharging the algae it depends on for food. After this happens the coral will die, leaving behind its white skeleton of pure

By Slickrock Adventures | October 7, 2015

On our island in Belize we have all of the sport toys you can imagine: sea kayaks, surf kayaks, surf paddleboards, long distance paddleboards, beginner, intermediate and advanced windsurfers, fishing kayaks, surf boards, rolling kayaks, and kitesurf gear. It’s hard to say which sport is the favorite, but it might be sea kayaking. We use the kayaks to access snorkeling spots, and sea kayaks a

By Slickrock Adventures | September 30, 2015

We have already commented in a previous blog post about the developing El Nino weather pattern that is affecting the climate patterns across the Caribbean. The primary effect El Nino is having is to alter the upper level wind strength and that has been suppressing hurricane development in the Caribbean. So far there has not been a single hurricane in the entire Caribbean, which is very unusual sin

By Slickrock Adventures | September 23, 2015

As I posted last week, I was looking for some images in my computer files and found some videos I didn’t realize I had. In 2012 one of our guests – Larry Staples – spent much of his island week filming. And he had great equipment! At the end of the week he gave me everything he had shot. THANK YOU LARRY. I was so impressed with the kayak surfing video that I found initially, that

By Slickrock Adventures | September 16, 2015

I was looking for some images of surfing and came across this video I don’t believe I have ever looked at. Three years ago a wonderful guest named Larry Staples spent most of the week on our island filming everything. At the end of his stay he let me download everything to my computer. THANK YOU LARRY. This helps me out immensely because I never have too many pictures of our island for the w

By Slickrock Adventures | September 9, 2015

In recent months a political issue has been escalating between Belize and Guatemala over their southern border, which is defined along the Sarstoon River. Way back in 1857 a peace treaty between British Honduras ( now the country of Belize) and Guatemala was signed which defined the borders between the two countries, and which remain today. However, the British did not complete some of their promi

By Slickrock Adventures | September 1, 2015

A recent NY Times article hit close to home for those of us in the travel industry, and allows me an opportunity to get on my soapbox a little bit to inform our readers of some behind-the-scenes facts of the travel industry that you may not be aware of. In the article large websites like Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz have been exposed as a somewhat greedy business model that takes much or all o

By Slickrock Adventures | August 19, 2015

Ever since we opened our kite school on the island, our kite instructors have always marveled at how open and uncrowded our location is. We have a 2-mile stretch of sand flats that is coral free and only waist to chest deep, perfect for our instructors to teach students the basics of kiteboarding. The learning process requires a lot of space for students since they initially have little control an