Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 9, 2013

According to the National Meterological Service of Belize, the 2013 Belize hurricane season was slightly below average, but you wouldn’t know it to look at some of the photos! Given the location of our island, Long Caye, 35 miles off the coast of Belize, we are always highly aware of the weather in the region. So we breathed a little sigh of relief when Belize hurricane season officially cam

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 6, 2013

We’re always happy whenever we make a list of top vacation spots, and that happens a lot (here, here, here and here), but we get extra happy about being singled out for our surfing.   Matt Thompson, founder of surf site Wavecation, wrote a great article for The Inertia listing us second in his top five all-time favorite family friendly surfing vacations. The reasons we made his family frie

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 4, 2013

On Long Caye (our private island on Glover’s Reef, Belize) we have so many water sports to choose from it might seem incredible that we would ever have time for pursuing crafts. And yet, we do (can’t spend all our time in the water). Witness the latest crafting craze to hit the island – palm weaving. Our new kite instructor, Laia from Spain, recently took some time along with som

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 27, 2013

Once in a while we get this question: Is there a good eco friendly sunscreen that doesn’t harm the coral reef ecology? The answer isn’t as simple as we’d like. Here’s how we replied to a recent inquiry about eco friendly sunscreen. This person had been asking us about recent problems in Cancun: Because many people buy their sunscreen in Belize, and Belize does not offer en

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 18, 2013

The Melbourne daily newspaper, Herald Sun, lists kayaking Glover’s Reef Atoll number one in a list of the top Belize experiences, and this from a country that has the largest barrier reef in the world: Kayaking Glover’s Reef Atoll “Lying like a string of white-sand pearls, Glover’s Reef Atoll consists of half a dozen small islands surrounded by blue sea as far as the eye ca

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 15, 2013

Christmas Bird Counts in Belize: everyone is welcome regardless of experience. If you’re a birder, then you may already know: the objective of the Christmas Bird Count is to count (by sight or sound) as many birds as possible in one calendar day within an area encompassed by a circle 15 miles in diameter. The results of some 2,000 such Christmas Bird Counts are published annually by the Na

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 12, 2013

Just last week we wrote about a really cool scuba work-vacation opportunity. Now I’ve stumbled across a second such opportunity that’s focused on protecting the coral reef ecosystem. This one is being offered by Reef Conservation International. They operate out of Tom Owens Island, Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve at the southern tip of the Belize Fringe Reef. If you want a great first-

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 8, 2013

15 years ago this week, Hurricane Mitch tore through the Western Caribbean as the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. It began on Oct. 22 and was still roaring as late as Nov. 9, 1998. Hurricane Mitch, the most destructive and powerful of the 1998 storm season in the Atlantic, killed 11,000. Another 11,000 were listed as missing. 2.7 million people were uprooted from their homes. It dum

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 6, 2013

In the past few years, stand up paddle-boarding, or SUP for short, has exploded on the water sports scene. And at Adventure Island on Long Caye in Glover’s Reef, Belize, we’ve taken up SUP in a serious way and written about it a number of times on this blog. Our guests love it. Unlike conventional surf board surfing, SUP is extremely easy to learn. If you’re a first timer, you