Belize Snorkeling & Free Diving

Belize Barrier Reef & Atolls Snorkeling Vacations: Private Islands Tours

Belize Snorkeling Tours

When choosing Belize snorkel tours, remember that not all lodges are located on the coral reef. If you want to avoid a long and expensive boat ride to access snorkeling spots, make sure you know that you can snorkel right off shore. Visitors to the mainland should be aware that the Belize Barrier Reef and associated coral is a minimum of 10 miles away, and visitors to popular Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye are often surprised to find out that the reef is still a half-mile away, too far for most people to swim, and the waters are full of dangerous boats used for scuba. Snorkeling tours use boats in these areas.

 

The best locations for snorkeling right off shore are the three atolls of Belize: Glover's Reef, Lighthouse Reef and Turneffe Islands, and the southern cayes of the Barrier Reef. In these spots the islands sit right on the reef and you can jump in and snorkel immediately.

 

Visit our blog for how to choose snorkeling gear.

 

Serious snorkelers should not pass up a trip to visit Belize. Snorkel areas are so lush there that in one session a knowledgeable person can identify thirty fish, fifteen other creatures and many species of coral and sponges. Below is a short list of commonly seen underwater species.

 

Belize tourist information can be found elsewhere on our site.

 

 

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To find out more about Belize snorkel tours on our private island, call (800) 390-5715

or send us an email: slickrock@slickrock.com.

We do not provide one-day snorkel tours; our island is 70 miles from Belize City and 35 miles from Dangriga.

 

 

      

From top left, clockwise: School of Blue Tang, Queen Parrotfish, Peacock Flounder, Elkhorn Coral

 

What You Can Expect to See Snorkeling and Diving in Belize

Fish	Creatures	Coral	Sponges
French Angel Fish	Spotted Eagle Ray	Elkhorn	Giant Barrel
Queen Angel Fish	Southern Stingray	Staghorn	Yellow Tube
Blue Tang	Spotted Yellow Ray	Grooved Brain	Row Pore Rope
Stoplight Parrotfish	Bottlenose Porpoise	Symmetrical Brain	Red-Orange Branching
Queen Parrotfish	Atlantic-Spotted Porpoise	Knobby Brain	Orange Encrusting
Lizard Fish	Loggerhead Turtle	Golf Ball	Loggerhead
Tiger Grouper	Hawksbill Turtle	Lettuce Leaf	Stove-Pipe, gray variety
French Grunt	Flamingo Tongue Snails	Blade Fire	Iridescent Purple Vase
Queen Triggerfish	Caribbean Octopus	Purple Sea Fan	Fire
Trumpetfish	Common Octopus	Corky Sea Finger	Branching Tube
Barracuda	Caribbean Reef Squid	Red Sea Whip	Antler
Midnight Parrotfish	Spiny Lobster	Black	Brown Bowl
Creole Wrasse	Green Moray Eel	Star	Green Finger
Whitespotted Filefish	Chain Moray Eel	Pillar	Red Boring

 

 

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