Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 1, 2012

Melanie Mcfield is the Director of the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative and wrote this stellar article for Destination Belize Magazine, which begins by talking about Glover’s Reef. In the photo below, the three atolls of Belize, clockwise from left, are Turneffe Islands, Lighthouse Reef, Glover’s Reef. Our private island, Long Caye, is located at Glover’s Reef. Charles

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 29, 2012

Want to get an idea of what it’s like to actually be on our Belize island? We’ve blogged on many aspects of our tropical paradise: about our new nature trail on the island, about our garden of coconut trees on the island, about how we learned of a disease that was slowly killing them and , and about our successful fight to save them. Now, thanks to one of our guests, Steve Swisher, you

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 28, 2012

Check out these two photos of the point of our island in Belize. We just came across an old shot taken from our third year on Long Caye, in 1999. This was the first year after Hurricane Mitch swept over the island with 30’ waves (but no wind), knocking down four of our buildings and carving 40’ off the front side of the island. The storm then deposited the rubble and sand into a new peninsula,

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 24, 2012

Kite surfing is one of the hotest new sports on the island and for good reason. Our location, and the nature of the winds and water on Long Caye set us apart as one of the best places to learn the sport that there is. Here, in this short 1 min. video clip, one of our guests catches some huge air during a kite surfing session just before sunset. If you listen closely, you can here the reaction of t

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 23, 2012

Our guests give us the greatest tips! I want to pass this latest hot tip on to everyone who reads our Belize blog. Today a woman on our upcoming Belize island trip told me about some snorkel fins that she and her husband found on-line for a REALLY good price. She wanted my opinion on them. OK, I haven’t seen them in person yet, but I have to say they look very good. For one thing they are sp

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 22, 2012

This is a game we invented on our private island 35 miles off the coast of Belize. Players try to knock their opponent(s) into the 80 degree water by moving and stopping. But no physical contact is allowed. Last one on the iMat wins! This video was shot by Slickrock guest, Susan Beverage, and shows Slickrock guide, Matt Szymanwicz taking on another Slickrock guide, Neri Chi and an unidentified gue

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 21, 2012

Those of us who work in the Belize travel industry have been pedal to the metal for months now. Peak season for travel to Belize is mid-December – early-April. The weather is good into May or sometimes even June, but most people want to go south when it’s cold in the US and Canada. If you can go in April, you will enjoy peak perfect weather but you won’t be traveling with everyone else, and

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 20, 2012

One of the wonderful things (among many) about having an island resort in Belize is discovering the food of Belize. Many years ago I discovered a wonderful Belizean dish: Dukunu. We don’t serve it on the island because it is too labor intensive : ( But at a locals Belize City restaurant, like Ceni’s, you can sometimes find it. Dukunu is a fabulous dish! And you can make these marvelous

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 17, 2012

One of the many odd-looking creatures we see while diving and snorkeling at Adventure Island on Long Caye is the batfish, which actually looks nothing like a bat at all (baseball OR vampire). The species we have on Glover’s Reef is the Short-Nosed Batfish, but there are about 60 species of fishes of the family Ogcocephalidae (order Lophiiformes), found in warm and temperate seas; of which ou