Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on August 13, 2015

There is big news in Belize’s tourism sector today, Carnival Cruise Lines has announced it is scaling back its stops in Belize this year by 14 boats. This is not a huge number considering Belize receives 350 stops per year between all the various cruise ship lines, but it is significant as the first cutting back in stops by a cruise ship line. The tourism sector is worried that more may foll

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 29, 2015

On our island out at Glover’s Reef in Belize, we offer 10 sports: sea kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, kitesurfing, windsurfing, kayak surfing, sport fishing, kayak fishing, paddleboarding, and board surfing. It is great having so many sports, because if it’s too windy to sea kayak, it might be perfect for one of the surfing sports. It the surf is flat because there is no swell comi

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 8, 2015

Leonado Dicaprio bought an island in Belize several years ago with the idea to eventually build an eco-resort on the property. A recent New York Times article describes the plan, and construction is slated to begin soon with a projected opening in 2018. Di Caprio’s idea is to make it a ‘true’ eco resort, not just in name but in practice with guests’ participation. For insta

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on June 24, 2015

I recently returned from a trip to Maui where I was able to snorkel several times during my visit. While it was great to see new species of coral and fish, I was struck by how much better the diving and reefs are at our Glover’s Reef island in Belize. I had always imagined Hawaii and most of the Pacific to have much better reef ecosystems that we commonly see in Belize, but I found the oppos

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on June 17, 2015

Last week there was big news out at Glover’s Reef, a Guatemalan naval gunboat crashed on the atoll’s ring reed between our island and nearby Middle Caye. The patrol boat was passing by the reef with another vessel on their way to Mexico when its steering apparently broke down, and it then drifted onto the reef. It was grounded there for about 4 days before another Guatemalan boat was a

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on June 10, 2015

Have you ever wondered what is involved with maintaining an island? It’s much more than you would think! When our guests arrive on our island out at Glover’s Reef, they are immediately struck by how beautiful it is, and they do see us picking up fallen palm leaves and dragging them to the dump. But I imagine they think the beaches are actually pretty clean and we are just keeping it ni

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on June 3, 2015

Many of our guests extend their stay on our private island in Belize by adding on a few days in Cayo, the district in Western Belize which is the second most popular tourist area in the country. (The first is Ambergris Caye, a large island close to Belize City.) There are many jungle lodges in this region, from super inexpensive, to high luxury. There’s something for everyone in this part of

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on May 27, 2015

Belize has a small oil industry already producing crude oil, which it delivers to the US for refining, but only 2 sites are currently producing the crude and they are both located on the mainland. Production has been decreasing in recent years, however, oil companies have been doing preliminary exploration for quite a few years, and they believe substantial reserves exist within the country, espec

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on May 20, 2015

Norwegian Cruise Lines has been working on their latest project in Belize, a private island just three miles off the Belize coast right by Placencia Village. Their multi-million dollar remodel of Harvest Caye, will turn this tiny island into a cruise ship landing location for their cruises. This will be the first port in Belize that can accommodate a cruise ship actually pulling up to a pier to un