BELIZE ADVENTURE BLOG

By Slickrock Adventures | March 29, 2017

There are two kind of water on our Belize island: rain water and well water. Rain water is collected on our roofs and we use it for drinking, cooking, and tooth brushing. Even though we have over 15,000 gallons of storage capacity, we conserve this water. Once we run out, that’s it until the next rainy season. Right now we are just entering peak dry season. So it’s crucial to have well

By Slickrock Adventures | March 22, 2017

On our Belize Adventure Week 8-night package we spend 2 of those nights at Windy Hill Resort. Windy Hill is just outside the town of San Ignacio. To get there, simply drive west from town, it’s about 3 miles past the edge of town on the right. There are a lot of jungle lodges in the area, and we have our pick of the bunch. We choose Windy Hill for a variety of reasons, but the primary reason

By Slickrock Adventures | March 17, 2017

From Coral Reef and Mayan Ruins to the Cloud Forest Occasionally we get this question… people rightly figure that if they are going south, they want to stay south and see more than just one country. What a great combination! Belize for the coral reefs and Mayan ruins, and Costa Rica for the cloud forest. Three different airlines fly between the two, and on the quickest and cheapest schedules the

By Slickrock Adventures | March 15, 2017

When you decide to join us on one of our Belize adventure packages at our island or on the Belize mainland, you do show up with some expectations. Our guests expect the weather to be wonderful, the guides to be qualified and fun, the food to be fantastic, their cabana to be super cool, and the caves to be exciting; and our guests are not disappointed. Each week I receive emails from guests re-ente

By Slickrock Adventures | March 8, 2017

My favorite place to eat in Belize is Cheers Restaurant. I am a foodie, and it’s great. It is regular comfort food, not gourmet or trendy… you will love it. Cheers Restaurant is located on the Western Highway just a few miles past the Belize Zoo, on the south side of the road. It’s about 40 minutes from Belize City. So if you are going to the zoo, or continuing on through Belmopa

By Slickrock Adventures | March 1, 2017

We just ran across this interesting article in the New York Times about seagrass. The reason this interests us is because our island is surrounded by large beds of Belize seagrass, which thrive in the shallow waters ringing the island and between patch reefs inside the atoll. We see an incredible amount of marine life in theses underwater seagrass meadows, and many species live there permanently a

By Slickrock Adventures | February 22, 2017

Most people seemed surprised to see our staff zooming around the island on our island bike since they expect a beach with soft sand everywhere, which is not conducive to bike riding. However, since the sand on the island, as almost everywhere in Belize, is composed of coral fragments, a different kind of surface develops when it is compacted and soaked in water for long periods (years). The calciu

By Slickrock Adventures | February 16, 2017

The other day I was listening to an excellent podcast about managing emotional stress. This was an interview between the host of the podcast, Eileen Laird, and Evan Brand, an author and functional medicine practitioner who specializes in stress management. Near the end of the podcast, Eileen asks Evan for his top 5 methods of relieving stress in a particularly difficult situation. He only listed 3

By Slickrock Adventures | February 1, 2017

I have written before about the trash that washes up on our beaches continuously out at Glover’s Reef. It’s endless. There are times of year when it’s worse, but not only does it wash up daily, but the overall volume has definitely increased as the years have progressed. We have been based out of Glover’s Reef since 1991 (!) We pay people to pick it up, we con our guests (p