Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 27, 2010

We have had 2 hurricane scares this hurricane season, and both have left us fairly unscathed, much to our relief. When you own an island resort in the Caribbean, you don’t look forward to hurricane season. Each July we start to get nervous, and don’t feel completely relaxed until November 1, when I proclaim hurricane season officially “over”. Only 4 more days to go! Tropical storm Matthew

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 26, 2010

Slickrock has designed a custom raft from which we will conduct our kitesurfing lessons from Long Caye, and it has just been completed (shown here in Cully’s yard in Moab, Utah). Since we do not have ideal conditions right off the island, we will travel to nearby sandflats for these lessons, where wide open spaces, shallow water, and the sandy bottom will allow students plenty of room to master

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 25, 2010

We just talked to Kendra from Long Caye, the owner of the dive shop on our island. She and her husband Jim just arrived on the caye, returning after they evacuated on Saturday. They brought our construction crew out and our groundskeeper, Apolitico, as well. She reports that she is amazed at how good everything looks. She estimates that the wind blew about 60 mph, with winds coming from the West,

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Hurricane Richard hit central Belize yesterday afternoon as a Category 1 storm, making landfall about 20 miles south of Belize City with 90 mph winds. The strongest winds were confined to a 30 mile radius from the storm’s center, so very few areas sustained damage according to preliminary reports. We are happy to report that everyone we know in Belize is fine. Our island base at Glover’s Reef

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 22, 2010

Our paddleboard instructor and trip manager Victor Myers was a winner in the Werner Paddles Catalog Photo Contest. Victor created this self-portrait just off our island with a surfdeck mounted, waterproof camera. You can see videos he made with the same camera while paddleboarding off our Belize caye in an earlier blog post. To obtain your own copy of the Werner Paddles catalog, visit their websit

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 28, 2010

We have recently assembled a wind graph for the island using statistics from a virtual buoy weather site located near the island. This location uses stats extrapolated from other, surrounding weather stations with actual instruments, and we were able to find 12 years of stats on the wind. From this we were able to create a graph of the average wind speeds we experience on the island, based on numb

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 16, 2010

Slickrock has just teamed up with Vela Windsurf Resorts www.velawindsurf.com to become one of their new wind sport centers. Vela is the premier windsports resort in the US and they have operations in Maui, Venezuala, Dominincan Republic, Baja (Mex), and Brazil. Their resorts feature top level, current model windsurf and kiteboard equipment for use at locations with strong, reliable winds. Slickroc

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on August 18, 2010

Several of Slickrock’s staff attended the annual Outdoor Retailer Show held in Salt Lake City, UT early this month, where all the latest toys in the outdoor sports industry are first displayed. We attend the show every year to keep abreast of industry trends and to purchase new equipment. At his year’s demo day at Jordonelle Reservoir, where all the water sport vendors have their lates

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 19, 2010

A coral reef in the sea is like an oasis in the desert. Tropical seas are poor in nutrients and devoid of shelter, but the reef teems with life. Food for sea life is found there in the form of algae and small fish and crustaceans for larger fish to eat. Protection for sea life is also provided in the form of elaborate architecture that provides shelter from both wave action and from predators. The