Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 10, 2012

Though snorkeling is far and away the most popular activity on our island, many of our guests take advantage of the scuba diving opportunities offered by a PADI Dive Center, just a few feet down the island from our dining hall. All scuba diving on the island is from a boat and accompanied by one of their skilled guides. A complete description of the dives available with them, along with their rate

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 9, 2012

Anyone visiting Belize in early March will be surprised when the entire country shuts down for days for a mysterious holiday called Baron Bliss Day. The country goes wild, it is a huge party. Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss, commonly known as Baron Bliss (16 February 1869 – 9 March 1926), was a British-born traveler who willed two million U.S. dollars to a trust fund for the benefit of the citi

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 8, 2012

Wavecation.com, a website dedicated to making it easy to find the world’s best surf accommodations, just named our resort in Belize one of the top 5 surf and scuba destinations in the world! We share this honor with Four Seasons Explorer in the Maldives ($1000+ a night!), the Abajo Inn in the Bajamas, Sebastian’s on the Beach in Tortola, and Villa Tropical in Puerto Rico. Thanks Wavecation

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 7, 2012

We have been fortunate to be featured again on the Tacogirl blog, this time about saving the coconut trees on our island, Long Caye. Read about it on Tacogirl. Coconuts on Long Caye at Glover’s Reef

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 6, 2012

Anderson Cooper, in a report recently on 60 Minutes, visits with coral reef specialists at a remote coral reef off the coast of Cuba: The Gardens of the Queen. This reef is special in that, due to its remote location and the fact it has long been protected from over-fishing and other human/industrial depredations, it is one of the few reef systems in the world that is still thriving. In this regar

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 3, 2012

Recently I was a guest blogger on the premier Belize blog, Tacogirl. We exchanged some emails, and Tacogirl asked to use one of my emails in an upcoming blog post. Of course I said yes! In this email I reminisced about Slickrock’s very old days when we based our sea kayak trips out of Placencia, Here is her post, with some old pictures I sent her from our original days way back when: http://

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 1, 2012

I ran across this excellent travel blog, Pebble Pedalers, written by two young men as they rode their bikes, self-supported, 17,000 miles  through 15 countries—from Prudhoe Bay, the northernmost point accessible by road in Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of Argentina. But it seems they did a lot of fly fishing along the way, especially when they got to Belize. If you love fly

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on January 31, 2012

Last February Meg Griffiths, our kitesurf and advanced windsurfing instructor, kept track of wind speeds through the month of February. Sailors visiting us this February will be glad to see most days are plenty windy for Belize kitesurfing! All units are in mph. (photo above by Pete McDermott)   DATE 9 am 12 noon 3 pm 6 pm AVERAGE MAX WIND SPEED 1 8 8 11 13 10 13 2 11 17 16 12 14 17 3 13 14 1

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on January 30, 2012

Can you say cute? Watch this short video of a small girl learning to paddleboard at Long Caye. Visit our Family Vacation web page for more info and special prices for kids at our island adventure resort.