Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 13, 2010

I just returned from 5 weeks in Belize. During that time we hosted over 150 guests on our island. It was a blast! We had a wonderful time: guests and staff alike. On my last morning on the island we posed for a new staff picture, left to right: LaVern Garcia, Neri Chi, Magdaleno “MJ” Yacab, Lucy Wallingford (with Coco the Bunny), Victor Myers, Marcy Noralez, Mark Hopkins, Martin Ramire

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 22, 2010

Here are the videos Sunrise session off long caye clip from Victor Myers on Vimeo. Long Board Footage Here Priceless kiddo footage So we had a banner week for surf. Probably should have been running a surf camp this week. Strange SE and NW winds built and stacked everything up nicely and the surf held in from Tuesday to Friday.

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 19, 2010

We have a new island pet: our bunny Coco! Our bunny Lucky died in 2005, and the staff got me a new bunny as a present. We had a naming contest on an early March trip, and named her Cocoa Damselfish (after a fish we often see while snorkeling); Coco for short.

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 26, 2010

Sometimes we have a huge group that wants to rent the island. We’ll do this for 28 guests+ in the ‘high’ season (Dec – April, except on holiday weeks) and for 15+ guests the rest of the year (except hurricane season: Sept/Oct). Renting the island includes all the sports gear and guides. We don’t allow our gear to be used without our staff supervision. If you want to rent the island witho

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 24, 2010

We have just posted a new detailed Belize map online. Earlier this winter I was searching for an accurate Belize map online and could not find anything useful, so I created one. Anyone looking for a specific island or town will hopefully find this map valuable. Visit our website: https://www.slickrock.com/detailedbelizemap.html

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 17, 2010

New Slickrock action videos We just completed a website video project, check out our website to see a series of six videos of our island and adventure sports. We shot the footage during our Dec. 18, 2009 trip with the help of David and Diane Wilcox of Seattle, a team of professional film makers who attended one of our trips with their families. They employed the latest HD cameras, including a very

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Belizeans have a diet quite unlike ours. We are used to having the world’s cuisine at our fingertips, but Belizeans have about 7-10 dishes that they eat over and over: rice and beans, stew beans and rice (two different dishes, believe it or not), Belizean stew chicken, potato salad, cole slaw, vegetable salad (what they call a tossed salad), whole fried fish, scrambled eggs, fry jacks, Jonny Cak

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 11, 2010

Belize Snorkeling Tours: On our Belize private island trips, no other item is as important as snorkel gear; exploring the underwater world is the trip’s highlight. You get what you pay for; cheap gear may mean that you spend your snorkel session with salt water in your eyes and throat, or blisters forming on your feet. We don’t provide snorkel gear because this is personal gear; it must fit yo

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on January 26, 2010

The creation of this blog is long overdue. There are so many amazing things that I have always wanted to communicate about our Belize travel company: photos of new kayaks and surf boards being delivered to my yard in Moab, hilarious photos guests send us from their trip, hot tips from our staff of other cool places to visit in Central America, more about how to choose the perfect snorkeling finsâ€