About the Water Activities

The cayes are all about diving, snorkeling, fishing, sea kayaking, windsurfing, sailing, and even parasailing. Diving and snorkeling are excellent on the Barrier Reef and truly world-class around the atolls. There's great fishing, whether for bonefish, tarpon, or permit on the flats, or snapper, grouper or barracuda near the reef, or sailfish, marlin, tuna, and other big fish in the blue water outside the reef. Caye Caulker is known for its excellent windsurfing, especially in spring, and the Belize cayes are famous for kayaking. Boating and sailing are good in the protected waters inside the reef. Beach swimming, however, is only fair in many areas because of the shallow waters, mucky bottoms, and large amounts of sea grass near shore. Still, most resorts have a swimming area off a pier or on a part of a sandy beach where they've cleared the sea grass. The Caribbean here is usually crystal clear and around 80°F.