Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 8, 2012

There aren’t that many places in Belize where you can snorkel right from shore, but you sure can at Glover’s Reef!

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 7, 2012

Every October my partner Cully drives to Belize with a pile of kayak and surf gear and arrives on the island a month before guests arrive for the annual building extravaganza. We always have more that we want to do than we have time and money for, but each year, step-by-step, the place gets better. It’s fun coming up with what is next on the list. This year it was our wash station. Our eco-resor

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 6, 2012

Last March Meg Griffiths, our kitesurf and advanced windsurfing instructor, kept track of wind speeds through the month of March. Sailors visiting us this March will be glad to see most days are plenty windy for Belize kitesurfing! All units in mph.(photo above by Pete McDermott)   DATE 9 am 12 noon 3 pm 6 pm MAX WIND SPEED 1 15 13 10 8 15 2 6 7 4 5 7 3 4 7 4 6 7 4 5 5 8 9 9 5 8 0 4 16 16 6 1

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 5, 2012

One of our guests shows off his island cabana.

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 2, 2012

On Glover’s Reef at Long Caye, we go kayak snorkeling every day. Guides are skilled at teaching guests to safely exit and re-enter their sea kayak without overturning. This allows everyone maximum access to snorkeling the 900 patch reefs on Glover’s Reef. Here we are snorkeling at Horseshoe Reef, about 3/4 of a mile from our island. You can see that one of the guides has a spear gun. H

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 1, 2012

Melanie Mcfield is the Director of the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative and wrote this stellar article for Destination Belize Magazine, which begins by talking about Glover’s Reef. In the photo below, the three atolls of Belize, clockwise from left, are Turneffe Islands, Lighthouse Reef, Glover’s Reef. Our private island, Long Caye, is located at Glover’s Reef. Charles

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 29, 2012

Want to get an idea of what it’s like to actually be on our Belize island? We’ve blogged on many aspects of our tropical paradise: about our new nature trail on the island, about our garden of coconut trees on the island, about how we learned of a disease that was slowly killing them and , and about our successful fight to save them. Now, thanks to one of our guests, Steve Swisher, you

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 28, 2012

Check out these two photos of the point of our island in Belize. We just came across an old shot taken from our third year on Long Caye, in 1999. This was the first year after Hurricane Mitch swept over the island with 30’ waves (but no wind), knocking down four of our buildings and carving 40’ off the front side of the island. The storm then deposited the rubble and sand into a new peninsula,

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 24, 2012

Kite surfing is one of the hotest new sports on the island and for good reason. Our location, and the nature of the winds and water on Long Caye set us apart as one of the best places to learn the sport that there is. Here, in this short 1 min. video clip, one of our guests catches some huge air during a kite surfing session just before sunset. If you listen closely, you can here the reaction of t