BELIZE ADVENTURE BLOG

By Slickrock Adventures | February 27, 2015

We just found an interesting new feature on the Weather Channel site for Belize, which a chart of the sun and moon’s path on a graph. The graph shows the daily time of the sunrise and sunset, twilight times, and the angle of the sun above the horizon all on one graph, as well as the sun’s current position on the graph line. It also shows the moon’s path and phase on the same format. If you a

By Slickrock Adventures | February 20, 2015

Our kite instructor Jasmine recently brought her camera along on a kite lesson and was able to get some great point of view shots of what it’s like for the students. After a trainer kite session we take the new students out to the sand flats between our island and Middle Caye and hook them up to a big kite. There is a lot to learn on this first lesson with the bigger kite, mainly focusing just o

By Slickrock Adventures | January 28, 2015

First and foremost, the climate is fantastic. Not to mention diving off the world’s second largest barrier reef. And the many eclectic cultures, mixing freely, reflect the history of the region as it has been passed like a plaything between the worlds. Amazing fauna and flora, wildlife, a zoo with a biologist’s dream of creatures all native to the country. And even real touch-it-if-you dare ru

By Slickrock Adventures | December 22, 2014

Just in the last 2 weeks fares have really been dropping for January travel dates to Belize. We do have a Belize package on sale that coincides with the great fares we are finding. We track air rates to Belize in 29 US and Canadian cities, but the Canada fares are really impressive! Calgary(YYC) – Belize City (BZE)$706$534$556$664 Departure City Three Weeks Ago Two Weeks Ago Last Week This W

By Slickrock Adventures | December 16, 2014

Out on our Belize island we offer two wind sports: windsurfing and kiteboarding. We are open during the “dry” season, which is late November through May. The rest of the year it is too rainy to be able to offer adventure sport packages with reliably good weather. We can windsurf and kitesurf through our season, but it’s the windiest at the beginning of the season, late November &

By Slickrock Adventures | December 9, 2014

Caye Caulker has long been one of the premier destinations for travelers to Belize. This small island town is located about 15 miles north of Belize City and is close to the barrier reef. It is easily accessible by water taxi or with frequent domestic air service. Caye Caulker has retained much of the laid back, funky Caribbean flavor of days gone by, and the huge boom of tourism and development h

By Slickrock Adventures | December 2, 2014

We have an active sea turtle nesting area on Long Caye, where sea turtles (usually Loggerhead, but also Hawksbill) dig nests and lay their eggs each year on our beach. When we notice a new nest (they come ashore at night only) we stake it off to protect it and await the hatch, which typically takes 90 days of incubation. Because many turtles lay their eggs during our off season, many of the nests

By Slickrock Adventures | November 25, 2014

We have already posted several blog posts about the Lionfish invasion taking place all across the Caribbean, and what a serious threat it is to the existing coral reef ecosystems. Out where our island is located — at Glover’s Reef in Belize — we spear lionfish almost everyday, to try to help get a handle on this Caribbean crisis. Here is yet another great story we have come acros

By Slickrock Adventures | November 18, 2014

I talk about Belize on the phone much of each day, and one of the things many people ask questions about is snorkel gear. This is a subject I know, so I love to talk about it. We don’t provide snorkel gear on our Belize adventure packages, you have to bring your own. Sometimes people get quite bent out of shape about this, but all I can think is that they don’t realize that rental gear