BELIZE ADVENTURE BLOG

By Slickrock Adventures | April 23, 2014

I am a new fan of Stacy Holbert, a woman who apparently lives on Ambergris Caye in Belize, and posts great Belize scuba diving videos to You Tube. One of her videos is a fabulous minute-and-a-half clip of the beautiful Moon jellyfish. We don’t see these that often, but it’s always a thrill when we do. Everyone is afraid of jellyfish, because their sting delivers a whopper of a hurt, bu

By Slickrock Adventures | April 16, 2014

One of the most popular activities we offer on our Belize island is windsurfing for beginners. Once our guests start out with our training program, there is always a line to use the equipment to practice their new skills. The secret lies with our first orientation using the land trainer, which allows students to learn the basics on the beach without having to fall in the water over and over. Then,

By Slickrock Adventures | April 15, 2014

I just read about a new app for the iPhone that I plan to get. It uses complex formulas predicting your circadian rhythms. It also calculates when you need to be exposed to light and when to avoid light after changing numerous time zones. The app is called Entrain, but unfortunately the article I read doesn’t say where you go to become a Beta tester. I travel a lot, to Europe and to Canada each

By Slickrock Adventures | April 9, 2014

We are weather freaks. That just happens to you when you own an island in Belize. We just found this video of a full year of satellite global weather imagery, compressed into an 8-minute video. The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites produced this video to show global weather patterns throughout 2013. The accompanying commentary by Mark Higgins of EUMETSAT is ex

By Slickrock Adventures | April 2, 2014

I recently came across a great new video of Belize scuba diving. This dive was filmed near Southern Long Caye, which is not the same Long Caye that we own (there are about 8 Long Cayes in Belize.) However, the underwater ecosystem is the same, and the woman who created this video, Stacy Holbert, did a fantastic job splicing together wonderful clips from this one dive. The coral is exactly the type

By Slickrock Adventures | March 25, 2014

We have written extensively in the past about hunting lionfish at our island at Glover’s Reef in Belize. Although our island is in a national marine reserve where fishing other than catch-and-release is outlawed, we are allowed to spear the invasive lionfish. The lionfish at Glover’s Reef are a huge problem – but we do what we can to keep their numbers down, especially near our i

By Slickrock Adventures | March 22, 2014

Blue Ventures Expeditions has a series of educational vacations in Belize I REALLY wish I could go on. Unfortunately, the dates don’t work for me, but I’m hoping some of you can go and then write a blog post about it! Blue Ventures’ new lionfish projects start this May to help manage and monitor the progress of the invasive fish in the Bacalar Chico Marine Reserve, which is about

By Slickrock Adventures | March 18, 2014

In November of last year a Brown Booby suddenly showed up at our island and started roosting on the ground near one of our beach cabanas. We rarely see any Boobies out at Glover’s Reef since it is so far from the island these birds nest on along the barrier reef, and they are very fussy about where they live from what we understand. At first we thought it was injured because it just sat on a log

By Slickrock Adventures | March 11, 2014

We recently heard from one of our wonderful past guests, Susan Saraf. Susan has visited us twice on our Belize island, but both times she joined us, it was ages ago (we hope she will come back someday soon). Susan just sent me a bunch of photos from early 2000, which was only about a year and half after Hurricane Mitch, which really rearranged everything on the island. As a result of that hurrican