Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 4, 2013

If you like scuba diving and “work-cation” is part of your vocabulary, check out this one week scuba diving work-vacation at Blue Ventures in Belize. Help with efforts to rollback the lionfish invasion by participating in spearfishing hunts, measuring, dissecting and logging your lionfish catch, and conducting site surveys. Vollunteers provide their own flights, gear, hotels before and

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 1, 2013

Lionfish are a big problem in Belize, the Caribbean and the entire Atlantic. We like to stay on top of the lionfish story and have covered it thoroughly over the past three years on this blog. Lionfish in the news again This update is prompted by several recent news stories: an October 19 CNN report which itself was covered on October 21 in The Christian Science Monitor and on Yahoo News. Kickin

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 28, 2013

We’ve been taking North Americans on amazing adventure vacations in Belize for 30 years. We know this country and the things to do in Belize. This is the first installment of a series detailing some of our favorite places that we recommend to our friends and guests when they want to explore what Belize has to offer prior to, or following, their Adventure Island trip with us. Things to do in

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 21, 2013

Colorado Kayak created a list of snorkel gear specifically for our customers to find essential items on our “what to bring” list. If you have registered for a trip with Slickrock Adventures you qualify for a 10% discount on hydroskin, wetshoes and more. Just enter “slicktrip14″ when you checkout on Colorado Kayak Supply and you’ll receive the special offer. Others can us

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 16, 2013

A quick and easy guide to the best online sources about the sport of kitesurfing, kiteboarding, kite boarding, kite skiing or whatever you call the sport. Kitesurfing News Sites KiteMovement : the Kitesurf News Center Global in scope but with no long articles, only snippets. Still, what they lack in depth they make up for in timeliness. They seem to post one or two blurbs each day and spread them

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 9, 2013

I live in a small tourist town (Moab, Utah) that, for some odd reason, seems to be extremely well-endowed when it comes to free, open WiFi access. It’s easy to take it for granted. Then, whenever I travel away from Moab I’m always surprised at how difficult it can be to find WiFi access in other cities and towns. So, with that in mind I thought it would be useful for our guests and oth

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 7, 2013

How to Combine Our Adventure Island Packages to Create Seamless, Longer Belize Travel Itineraries We’ve already covered this subject somewhat in a previous post: “How to combine Belize Travel Itineraries” but we thought it might be useful to expand it a bit for travelers who might be heading in other directions before or after their adventure in Belize. Places to Stay With Only

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 4, 2013

Beginning sometime next month or possibly in December, a team of six kiteboarders will attempt to be the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean while kiteboarding. According to a Sept. 25 post on Surfertoday, team members Filippo van Hellenberg Hubar, Camilla Ringvold, Mark Abma, Max Blom, and Bruno Sroka, will each take a 2-hour shift during the day and then again at night in an attempt expected to

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 2, 2013

Slickrock’s paddleboard program has taken off in the past few seasons, and in addition to our standard paddleboards we have added a fleet of cruiser boards which we use for long distance paddle tours from island to island. We’re also adding new SUP surf gear. We have always taken our SUP boards out into our surf break, where they make surfing much easier to learn than on standard surf