Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 2, 2011

Kids LOVE scuba! The dive shop on our island is a full service PADI dive shop offering scuba diving courses and daily dives for certified divers. Kids ages 12 and over have all of the options available to them as far as courses and certified dives go, there are no restrictions for kids in this age group. So kids ages 12 and up simply join adult classes that are offered. Kids that are 10 or 11 are

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 28, 2011

In late October of 1998 Hurricane Mitch sat out in the middle of the Bay of Honduras and churned for almost a week. Cully and I were in Moab, watching it on the internet in horror. This storm acted in ways storms don’t usually act, and at the time it was the 5th largest storm on record. Because we were far from the storm (about 100-125 miles), but there were no obstacles between us and it, huge

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 27, 2011

Usually, the only time a tropical island in Belize makes the news is when a hurricane hits (a rare event) but last week, when Discovery Channel’s new series, Alone In The Wild, featured TV celeb Jason Gardiner stranded alone on a Belize island for 5 days, it became a news story. Apparently, a highlight of his experience was finally catching and eating a fish after failing to do so for five d

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Last December Meg Griffiths, our kitesurf and advanced windsurfing instructor, kept track of wind speeds through the month of December. Sailors visiting us this December will be glad to see it’s a windy month! (photo above by Pete McDermott) Date 9 am Noon 3 pm 6 pm Average Max Wind Speed 1 21 18 15 16 18 21 2 19 17 18 16 17 19 3 14 13 10 10 12 14 4 15 16 13 10 13 16 5 14 9 11 13 12 14 6 17

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 26, 2011

We have been watching Wunderground closely and we are in the clear! Hurricane Rina is bypassing Belize, the 2011 Belize hurricane season has been OK so far! http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201118.html Today would be a great day to surf there, we talked to the dive shop and they report 10 foot waves!

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Every fall my partner Cully drives all of our new gear down to Belize. He has been doing this since 1977, and has only missed 2 years in all of that time. He left Monday morning and is now in Texas, he’ll cross over into Mexico tomorrow. It is our custom to take a picture right as he leaves Moab. I wish I had all of these pictures, in order! Our vehicles have gotten much nicer, and our sport

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 21, 2011

I am back from MY vacation (backpacking in Utah), and I’m back just in time to see the van loaded to the gills for Cully’s annual drive south. He’s not taking a trailer this year, just a new van, so the load is particularly creatively packed. Cully drives to Belize every year. That is the only way to get all of our kayaks, boards, generators, etc. down to Belize and out to the island. Victor

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 19, 2011

I grew up in a large family, and we went on lots of adventures together. Mostly we camped in the national parks of the west coast where we lived, and I remember all of those trips with a clarity far beyond most of my other childhood memories. But one trip stands out in particular, largely because of its location — the enchanted deserts of Joshua Tree National Monument. The environment was so

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 6, 2011

The other day someone at the office mentioned the term “ecotourism” and a debate ensued as to what exactly that term means now-a-days. So I decided to look it up on Wikipedia and was surprised to find that the description fit Adventure Island to a “T”. Ecotourism is responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strive to be low impact and (often