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Hey all, check out this post over at BnA's Adventure Logue on the best Islands in Belize and add your own favorites. There's 400 islands to choose from, I can tell you about 10, but I need help with the rest!

http://www.adventurelogue.com/destinations/beauty-and-t...belizes-islands.html

Glover's Reef -- Long Caye, Middle Caye, Northeast Caye

Long Caye is privately owned by Slickrock (Cully and Lucy) and Off the Wall Dive Center (Jim and Kendra). It's a small island that you can walk around in not too much time.

I did a tour with Slickrock a few years ago, and loved it. I did the 9 day Adventure Island at Glover's Reef trip. We were lucky in that we went on an off week, and there were only 6 people in our group..so it really did feel like you had the whole island to yourself. Everyone gets a cute cabana overlooking the ocean. It's an eco-lodge -- wind and solar powered electricity, composting toilets, showers by collected rainwater and heated in a black tank, etc. Activities include a lot of kayaking, snorkeling, diving, windsurfing, surf kayaking, etc. A lot of the snorkelling can be experienced by just walking to one area of the island, and swimming from shore. Off the Wall provides diving instruction/trips and equipment rentals. The food is excellent..never did I go hungry.

The best part is that everyone is so laid back, you really are 'out there', so nights can be beautiful...take a walk to one of the docks, lay down, and look up at the stars. Sunrises and sunsets are amazing.

As far as the Wildlife Conservation Society in Glover's Reef (Middle Caye) that you had mentioned in your article...the people at Long Caye have connections to those guys. We kayaked from Long Caye to Middle Caye to visit the Wildlife Conservation Society. When I went there, there were only a few researchers staying there. Lots of sandflies there, so be prepared. And also when I went, there was a crocodile or alligator living there -- the story was that he had somehow washed up from the mainland during a hurricane and now made Middle Caye his home. Never saw him, but did see the evidence of him being around (croc trails).

Glover's Atoll Resort is located on Northeast Caye. We kayaked around Northeast Caye, but didn't explore it (I believe it is private as well).

Here's a link to my trip pictures from Long Caye in 2003, if you want an idea of how it's like...and some teasers...


Long Caye


Sunrise from the cabana


Permanent residents


View from the cabana -- that island in the pic is Northeast Caye

I recently spent a week at Glovers Atoll Resort, the one in the distance in Marisas pic. Absolutely wonderful, a real tropical paradise with fantastic snorkelling & diving. For me it was perfect... Non-campers beware, though, it's incredibly rustic.

Kath