Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 15, 2010

Mark Hopkins, one of our lead guides in Belize, was interviewed on Friday on Fish Talk Radio. If you want to hear some fish talk about our resident bonefish school, check out this interview. You can “fast-forward” to Mark’s interview, go to 34:00 and listen through to 40:24. FishTalkRadio

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 9, 2010

Victor just came in off the island yesterday and emailed these shots of Meg, our Belize kitesurfing instructor. Victor has an amazing waterproof camera he mounts all over the place to create these fantastic shots. Meg has only been on the island a few weeks. She is from North Wales, and spends about half of each year traveling and kiting all over the globe. A sailing, kiteboarding, and windsurfing

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 8, 2010

Now that the season is in full swing and I am on the phone all day talking about Belize and our island, I am reminded how people searching the internet for Belize vacation trips just don’t understand what it means to go to a very remote part of the globe. Everyone wants to go to an exclusive location with no one else around, but they all expect it to be easy to get to. Guess what: if it’s easy

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 7, 2010

Out in the island last week the wind was up and the skies cleared after our recent storm, so the crew was out on the water trying out our new kitesurfing equipment. Our guests from Vela and our kitesurf instructor ripped it up in the bay of the island before heading out across the sand flats to the next island, 3 miles down the reef. The sand flats between the islands provide a stunning area for s

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 6, 2010

We saw a few days of light winds on the island last week, but the surf came up so we jumped in for a few sessions of riding our break in almost glassy conditions. We have an excellent point break where we are able to get long rides down a continuously breaking shoulder. We had riders on surf boards, paddle boards, and surf kayaks. There’s nothing like surfing in 80 degree water, so clear you

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 3, 2010

We really did get a lot of new cool stuff this year. Here are a couple of shots of our first ‘sunset cocktail cruise’ with the new floating dock/raft that we got at Outdoor Retailer. We towed it around behind the new kite school raft, all guests aboard between the two crafts. Then when it was empty, Victor wake-surfed it behind the raft at full speed, what a laugh…

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 30, 2010

Slickrock’s new Vela kitesurf school started up this past week with our first guests of the season. After completing the new cabin and setting up our Vela windsurf and kitesurf equipment, we then scouted out locations around the atoll. Meg Griffiths, our new instructor, will be spending the season on the island with us. A top competitor and professional instructor, Meg has instructed kitesur

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I heard from Cully in Belize… our new Vela wind center is now up and running!

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 23, 2010

I am just off the island for a few days, and wanted to post these photos we have taken over the past 2 weeks. Since mid October we have been busy preparing for our winter adventure tours and building our new Belize Vela Windsport Center. We have set up our gear and are busy constructing our new kite and windsurf building, as well as setting up our sea kayaks, paddleboards, and surf kayaks. The win