Snorkeling

Hol Chan & Shark Ray Alley Marine Park Snorkel Trip: Half Day, 2 stops
Hol Chan Mayan for “little Channel”, “quebrado” in Spanish, is about 4 miles south, a short 15 minute boat ride. And is the most popular snorkel (& dive) area in Ambergris Caye. Fish and other marine life in this area propagate healthily and so the population thrives. Schools of jacks, groupers and snappers come to greet the new guests of the day, as you are guided off to the channel’s edge where vibrant coral form crevices and an overhang which green eels and lobsters dwell in. Shark Ray Alley lies just 3 minutes from Hol Chan, and this time Nurse Sharks and Southern Stingrays politely greet you as you arrive to visit them. Local fishermen cleaning their catch in the area is what got them to congregate in this specific area, so fish scrap is thrown overboard as they have come to expect. (http://www.holchanbelize.org/)

Schedule:Daily at 9am -or- 2pm (2.5hrs trip duration)

Night Snorkel- Hol Chan: 1 Stop

With lots of marine life being nocturnal and the reserve already bursting with colorful creatures, night snorkeling at Hol Chan proves to be absolutely lively. At the glow of your dive light, garden eels will peak among stingrays flapping their wings to cover themselves on the sandy bottom. Little Bioluminescent blinking all around you as jacks, snappers and groupers whoosh around for their evening snack!

Schedule:Most Evenings at 6pm (with a good tide)

Mexico Rocks: Half Day

Mexico Rocks, lies 20 minutes boat ride north, just seaward off the Barrier Reef. An opulent collection of Star, Elk horn & Stag horn Coral which is colonized by lobsters and eels, with colorful and bubbly juvenile fish scurrying about.

Schedule: Daily at 9am -or- 2pm (2.5hrs trip duration)