Off The Wall Dive Center & Resort Glovers Reef Atoll

... is a lovely Belizean woman, she has a massive freezer with home made ice cream packed to the rim which we all enjoy for about 90c a cone, mmm passionfruit ice cream on a stinking hot Carribean afternoon. The rooms are very well kept, and the door step is pretty much the beautiful Carribean ocean. We are sharing with a Finnish photographer, and 2 Americans - a friendly bunch. We decide to spend an ...

... I found on the web that offered tours there but not one of them responded. Given how many companies, hotels and others, don't respond to e-mails, I really have to wonder why they even have it! Anyway, Greg said he'd like to go and would borrow a car from a friend which would make it a little easier. We agreed to go Friday morning. Thursday night he came by Val's to say he hadn't been able to ...

... day there we met a bunch of locals other travelers who we ran into 4 or 5 times a day. Tuesday we went out for our first bar night of our trip. Ladies night at a bar that had sand floors and played classic club material, we got dancing lessons from a local waitress and had a constant stream of suiters, both local and traveler alike. We spend until today on the island just relaxing and taking in the scenery. Snorkling took up one half day, and the rest was spent eating ...

... the sun on day 2 we ended up on Tobbaco Caye, around twice the size of our last island, so basically still weener. The rum had been flowing more during the day this time and we had done some major group bonding. Emmet decided to live up to the Irish stereotype and get a good old fashioned hooley going with the locals in the beach bar, except to the beat of drums, not trad music. I had to put him to bed a few hours later but not before he'd boogeyed with a 4 year old and 67 year ...

... of myself. Arriving in Belize we met Mariann and jumped onto a tiny little plane out to Dangriga (from Belize city) and to our accomodations then over to Glovers atoll. The islands themselves were beautiful but my back hurt like crazy because of the psychotic boat drivers insistence of going flat out through solid swells with my at the bow. Nice work idiot. In our 8 days on the island the kids learnt to cook and clean ...

... Blue Hole. With the visibility at 100 feet, you can clearly see the vibrant colors of the reef and countless species of marine life. During my dives I saw hawksbill turtles, moray eels, eagle rays, nurse sharks, and best of all...the White-spotted Toadfish which is endemic to Belize! The diving here will appease everyone from novice divers to the most experienced with over 70 different dive sites within 15 minutes of the lodge. The flats of Turneffe have long been touted ...

... culturale" è il posto sbagliato dove conoscere questa cultura, ma dubito che la cultura vera si trovi su piccole isole caraibiche con resort. Ieri passeggiando un po' ho visto 3 militari armati che stavano interrogando diverse persone, dopodichè sono andati da un uomo nelle vicinanze e l'hanno arrestato. A quanto apre era omicidio ma non sono sicuro di aver sentito bene. Con i pochi turisti che si sono in questo paese, che davvero si contano sulle dita delle mani ...

... stroke them, like their siblings near Caye Caulker. We saw a few dolphins while going to and from the dive sites, but they don't like diver's bubbles so they go away when you are in the water unfortunately... We also saw a few very big green muray eels as well as a few healthy sized black tip reef sharks. We did one dive in 'blue water' to look for Hammerhead sharks. (A blue water dive, means that you have no visual reference (like a reef) and you just hang around in ...

... the boat ride in and out. They stayed mostly in their bungalow during that week, but we waved at each other occasionally. Talk about a Robinson Crusoe experience... The boat ride out to the island started in a cool way, we sped down the jungle in Sittee river and saw a rather large crocodile while we were refueling. But when we get out in the open water it was a rather choppy ride in a very small boat. It took us over 3 hours to get there, so when we finally made it to Glover's reef ...