Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 21, 2015

Maryann Izzarelli just returned from a week on our Belize island. She just wrote to me and said it was “was by far the best experience of my life” ! Wow, thanks Maryann. You know we just love to hear that. She had a surprise encounter with a spotted eagle ray that she caught on video! What a video! She described what happened: “I was on a lazy snorkel with a couple friends around

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 9, 2015

There is a woman I have never met named Stacy Holbert who lives on Ambergris Caye in Belize. Sometime in the past I came across her videos or her blog or something, you know how the internet is, and started following her on You Tube. I hardly follow anyone, but her videos are great. She doesn’t post often, but when she does, they are always good. This month she must have gone to the mainland

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 2, 2015

We have many sea turtles that nest on the island every fall, and this past November we were lucky enough to be present when there was a hatch. Most hatches occur late at night so we miss them, but this nest hatched at about 8 p.m. right next to one of our cabins so we were all able to watch the baby turtles as they made their way to the sea. Peter Schulz captured the action for a video of the even

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 26, 2015

Last November my friend Peter Schulz was visiting us on the island before our season started up, and he put together a video of various activities he was enjoying. Peter used a GoPro camera for all of his footage and the result is a nice series of shots covering many of the sport activities we instruct and guide on our Belize island, Long Caye at Glover’s Reef. He apologizes for the poor qua

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 19, 2015

Belize hosts one of the most healthy populations of jaguars in Central America, with an estimated 500 cats living within its borders. Jaguars are protected, and this has led to an increase in their numbers. A jaguar needs a large hunting territory to survive, so the increasing numbers have caused the cats to migrate and spread out in search of new territory, and this has inevitably led to conflict

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 27, 2015

We just found an interesting new feature on the Weather Channel site for Belize, which a chart of the sun and moon’s path on a graph. The graph shows the daily time of the sunrise and sunset, twilight times, and the angle of the sun above the horizon all on one graph, as well as the sun’s current position on the graph line. It also shows the moon’s path and phase on the same format. If you a

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 20, 2015

Our kite instructor Jasmine recently brought her camera along on a kite lesson and was able to get some great point of view shots of what it’s like for the students. After a trainer kite session we take the new students out to the sand flats between our island and Middle Caye and hook them up to a big kite. There is a lot to learn on this first lesson with the bigger kite, mainly focusing just o

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on January 28, 2015

First and foremost, the climate is fantastic. Not to mention diving off the world’s second largest barrier reef. And the many eclectic cultures, mixing freely, reflect the history of the region as it has been passed like a plaything between the worlds. Amazing fauna and flora, wildlife, a zoo with a biologist’s dream of creatures all native to the country. And even real touch-it-if-you dare ru

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 22, 2014

Just in the last 2 weeks fares have really been dropping for January travel dates to Belize. We do have a Belize package on sale that coincides with the great fares we are finding. We track air rates to Belize in 29 US and Canadian cities, but the Canada fares are really impressive! Calgary(YYC) – Belize City (BZE)$706$534$556$664 Departure City Three Weeks Ago Two Weeks Ago Last Week This W