BELIZE ADVENTURE BLOG

By Slickrock Adventures | December 24, 2013

Everyone who comes to our island marvels at how beautiful and idyllic the white sand beaches and palm trees appear, yet few people realize what a huge job it is to create these beach areas from the raw island land we start with. Bit by bit over the years we have cleared areas to create the wide expanses of clear beach area under the palms. Here are a two photos of an area we recently completed, no

By Slickrock Adventures | December 23, 2013

Or How We Learned to Love Belize About 40 miles southwest of Glover’s Reef, where our eco-resort is located on Long Caye, is a small group of tiny islands called the Silk Cayes of Belize. These islands figured prominently in how we first got started running sea kayak expeditions in the Caribbean. Cully, Slickrock’s founder, wrote a great post in 2011 about those early beginnings on Sil

By Slickrock Adventures | December 18, 2013

By guest writer Park Wilson If you crave adventure in an exotic setting, Belize could be the place for you. With gorgeous tropical beauty, near-perfect spring-like weather, and so many things to see and do, tourists and expats alike flock to the shores of this Caribbean jewel more each year while touring Belize. So whether you are looking to slow down and relax on the beach or to pack your days wi

By Slickrock Adventures | December 16, 2013

Encounters with sea turtles while snorkeling or scuba diving are always at the top of everybody’s list for their visit to Adventure Island on Long Caye. So, when we saw this sea turtle video we had to share it. The youtube poster, glencon1, labeled it “Elbow” which is most likely a dive site at the southern tip of the Turneffe Islands called the Elbow. The only other explanation

By Slickrock Adventures | December 10, 2013

We set up an osprey nest box last season right in front of the kitchen, and this season the resident pair of ospreys have moved in. They have been busy building a big nest and mating, and soon the female will be sitting on her eggs, usually two per season. We have watched this pair of ospreys raise their young every season for many years, so it will be especially interesting to watch every phase o

By Slickrock Adventures | December 9, 2013

According to the National Meterological Service of Belize, the 2013 Belize hurricane season was slightly below average, but you wouldn’t know it to look at some of the photos! Given the location of our island, Long Caye, 35 miles off the coast of Belize, we are always highly aware of the weather in the region. So we breathed a little sigh of relief when Belize hurricane season officially cam

By Slickrock Adventures | December 6, 2013

We’re always happy whenever we make a list of top vacation spots, and that happens a lot (here, here, here and here), but we get extra happy about being singled out for our surfing.   Matt Thompson, founder of surf site Wavecation, wrote a great article for The Inertia listing us second in his top five all-time favorite family friendly surfing vacations. The reasons we made his family frie

By Slickrock Adventures | December 4, 2013

On Long Caye (our private island on Glover’s Reef, Belize) we have so many water sports to choose from it might seem incredible that we would ever have time for pursuing crafts. And yet, we do (can’t spend all our time in the water). Witness the latest crafting craze to hit the island – palm weaving. Our new kite instructor, Laia from Spain, recently took some time along with som

By Slickrock Adventures | November 27, 2013

Once in a while we get this question: Is there a good eco friendly sunscreen that doesn’t harm the coral reef ecology? The answer isn’t as simple as we’d like. Here’s how we replied to a recent inquiry about eco friendly sunscreen. This person had been asking us about recent problems in Cancun: Because many people buy their sunscreen in Belize, and Belize does not offer en