Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 5, 2011

We have been asked in the past how best to get in shape for our trips to our Caribbean private island. After all, you can experience up to 15 sports on our Belize Adventure Week package, some you have likely never tried before: whitewater kayaking, underground rafting and kayaking, caving, hiking, sea kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, kitesurfing, windsurfing, kayak surfing, sport fishing, kayak

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on October 4, 2011

When we first thought about venturing down the Caves Branch River, Belize, in the mid 1980’s. We had some basic information about the run from a friend in Moab who had actually been on the first exploratory trip through the caves a few years before. That group of cavers had explored the river cave system from the bottom end up before taking their first trip downstream on inner tubes. So, we knew

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 29, 2011

One of Slickrock’s many island activities is sea kayak kite-sailing trips, where we employ special kites made to tow kayaks. When the wind is from the right direction, we often get out the kayak kites and hook them up for a down-wind run to Middle Caye. The kites still allow the kayaker to steer the boat with a rudder, although that is limited to about 45 degrees off from straight down wind. It

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 28, 2011

I just created this big shot of the island… it took 8 photos to put this together. I took these images last spring from the end of our dock. Slickrock’s kayak/windsurf beach is at the left in the photo, the dive shop is to the right. Click on the image to see the longest version your screen will allow!

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 27, 2011

The Beaufort scale is a system for measuring wind speed based on visual observations, and is still widely used despite the advent of modern wind gauges and other instruments. What is truly interesting is that this wind scale system is still referred to at all, considering it was developed in the early 1800’s! Our digital weather station and wind gauge on the island still read in the Beaufort sca

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 26, 2011

Slickrock’s big move out to Glover’s Reef occurred in the summer of 1996. We had been running sea kayak tours in Belize for 5 years out of Placencia, on the mainland coast in southern Belize, doing self support week-long tours among the islands along the outlying barrier reef. But the islands were starting to get crowded, and a few developed, so our trips were losing their wilderness character

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 23, 2011

A recent New York Times travel article points out that Latin America is a great deal these days. Belize is featured in the article, with information about flying to Belize, and a listing of some great deals. They point out that you’ll still pay less for lodging than what you would for comparable accommodations in other parts of the Caribbean.

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on September 22, 2011

Our location at Long Caye in Belize is a kitesurfing dream come true, especially for beginners taking lessons at our new Vela Kitesurf School. Located out at Glover’s Reef Atoll in southern Belize, we are surrounded by long aprons of coral-free sand flats that extend behind the protecting ring reef of the atoll. Not only does the reef cut out the chop and swell, but the shallow sand flats allow

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I just received the most amazing publication via email: The Toledo Howler, a newsletter of the southern-most chapter of the Belize Tourism Industry Association. I love Toledo. I spent a day there two months ago touring many of the local lodges. What a wonderful place! This is my favorite part of Belize – next to Glover’s Reef, of course ;-). It is the most remote, quaint, and picturesque p