Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 6, 2010

We saw a few days of light winds on the island last week, but the surf came up so we jumped in for a few sessions of riding our break in almost glassy conditions. We have an excellent point break where we are able to get long rides down a continuously breaking shoulder. We had riders on surf boards, paddle boards, and surf kayaks. There’s nothing like surfing in 80 degree water, so clear you

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on December 3, 2010

We really did get a lot of new cool stuff this year. Here are a couple of shots of our first ‘sunset cocktail cruise’ with the new floating dock/raft that we got at Outdoor Retailer. We towed it around behind the new kite school raft, all guests aboard between the two crafts. Then when it was empty, Victor wake-surfed it behind the raft at full speed, what a laugh…

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 30, 2010

Slickrock’s new Vela kitesurf school started up this past week with our first guests of the season. After completing the new cabin and setting up our Vela windsurf and kitesurf equipment, we then scouted out locations around the atoll. Meg Griffiths, our new instructor, will be spending the season on the island with us. A top competitor and professional instructor, Meg has instructed kitesur

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I heard from Cully in Belize… our new Vela wind center is now up and running!

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 23, 2010

I am just off the island for a few days, and wanted to post these photos we have taken over the past 2 weeks. Since mid October we have been busy preparing for our winter adventure tours and building our new Belize Vela Windsport Center. We have set up our gear and are busy constructing our new kite and windsurf building, as well as setting up our sea kayaks, paddleboards, and surf kayaks. The win

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 22, 2010

What’s the best way to find Belize flights? After years of advising people about Belize travel arrangements, we summarize the options and strategies this way: What airlines fly to Belize? There are not that many options for flying to Belize because it’s a small country and there are only a few flights/day, and all go through the United States. There are no direct flights from Europe or Canada.

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 19, 2010

Our kayak travel trips cover a wide range of kayaking skills, using a variety of boats. We base out of our island, Long Caye at Glover’s Reef, located 35 miles offshore in Belize. On our adventure tours we teach sea kayaking, surf kayaking, snorkeling from kayaks, kayak rolling, kayak fishing, and we have both single and double kayaks. Inland in the jungle we also teach river kayaking and UN

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 17, 2010

Earlier I posted “before” and “after” shots of our surf dock (the dock where we sit and watch the surfers from, while enjoying a cold Belikin) that got damaged this fall during Hurricane Matthew. The dock has been fixed, along with a lot of other building currently going on on the island.

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on November 16, 2010

I heard from Cully today, he’s been out on the island supervising the building of our new Vela windsports center. The new windsurf rack full of all new sails has just been completed. I know this made Cully happy to see this much cool new windsurf gear on the island! He reports they are also working on the new kiteboard cabin, as well as fixing some hurricane damaged facilities.