Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on May 21, 2014

The best time to visit Belize is the period of time known as the “dry season”. Speaking of summer, fall, winter, or spring is not that useful for Belize. Although there is little difference in temperatures between seasons in Belize, like all tropical regions Belize experiences extremes in precipitation amounts depending on the time of year. In the northern reaches of the tropics the cl

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on May 14, 2014

I am in Belize every March and April, so I am always on the island with parents and their children. These are my favorite kind of trips, I really enjoy hanging out with kids. Everyone ends up acting just a little bit sillier, and that is a good thing. We all act so serious all of the time, but with a bunch of kids, a bunch of water toys, and a private island, everyone loosens up a little bit. It&#

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on May 7, 2014

Every guest that visits us on the island marvels at the thatch roof on their cabana and the construction techniques used to build it. During the pre-season period in early November of each year, our Mayan crew comes out to the island to re-thatch old roofs and create any new ones that we need. Since we average only about 4 years for the lifespan of these roofs due to the salty climate, humid air,

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 30, 2014

Years ago our Belize Adventure Week tour used to include a trip to the Belize Zoo. I do not generally like zoos, but the Belize Zoo is wonderful. It was started as a home for wild animals that had been used in making documentary films, and after the filming was over, the animals were unable to be returned to the wild. The zoo’s creators soon realized that Belizeans were unfamiliar with their nat

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 23, 2014

I am a new fan of Stacy Holbert, a woman who apparently lives on Ambergris Caye in Belize, and posts great Belize scuba diving videos to You Tube. One of her videos is a fabulous minute-and-a-half clip of the beautiful Moon jellyfish. We don’t see these that often, but it’s always a thrill when we do. Everyone is afraid of jellyfish, because their sting delivers a whopper of a hurt, bu

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 16, 2014

One of the most popular activities we offer on our Belize island is windsurfing for beginners. Once our guests start out with our training program, there is always a line to use the equipment to practice their new skills. The secret lies with our first orientation using the land trainer, which allows students to learn the basics on the beach without having to fall in the water over and over. Then,

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 15, 2014

I just read about a new app for the iPhone that I plan to get. It uses complex formulas predicting your circadian rhythms. It also calculates when you need to be exposed to light and when to avoid light after changing numerous time zones. The app is called Entrain, but unfortunately the article I read doesn’t say where you go to become a Beta tester. I travel a lot, to Europe and to Canada each

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 9, 2014

We are weather freaks. That just happens to you when you own an island in Belize. We just found this video of a full year of satellite global weather imagery, compressed into an 8-minute video. The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites produced this video to show global weather patterns throughout 2013. The accompanying commentary by Mark Higgins of EUMETSAT is ex

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 2, 2014

I recently came across a great new video of Belize scuba diving. This dive was filmed near Southern Long Caye, which is not the same Long Caye that we own (there are about 8 Long Cayes in Belize.) However, the underwater ecosystem is the same, and the woman who created this video, Stacy Holbert, did a fantastic job splicing together wonderful clips from this one dive. The coral is exactly the type