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Advantages: The Blue Hole, rich with history Disadvantages: beggars following you around town asking for money
that encircles a lagoon partially or completely, so like a ring around water really. The water is shallow and very blue inside the atoll. Outside the atoll the water depth can drop to 1000s of feet. These atolls also break the waves and shelters the beach from erosion.
The diving is amazing, you are diving in 29-35 degrees centigrade water and wouldn't even need a wetsuit. Even the fish are beautiful and we spotted fish that I had not seen anywhere (see pictures)
The Blue Hole is the ultimate diving experience for Belize. It used to be an underwater cave until the roof caved in and is stated to be 412 ft deep! We could only get down to 40m deep on our recreational diving and it was very dark. Divers diving in the Blue Hole appear like insignificant blips against the size of the Blue Hole.
On Dry Land in Belize ...
jupiter28 29.03.2008
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Advantages: Second largest mass of living coral in the World! Disadvantages: For divers only
bleaching, in which the multicoloured corals turn a translucent white.
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An Underwater Paradise
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The pristine waters of the Belize reef system, averaging 26 degrees Celsius are a delight to divers and snorkelers. Ninety percent of the reef has yet to be explored. It lies just a few hundred meters fro San Pedro on AmbergrisCay and is easily accessible there. Six kilometres southeast of San Pedro is the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, eight square kilometres of shallow underwater park feature a cut, or channel through the reef.
One of the most astounding places on earth for diving is the Blue Hole, a protected World Heritage area in the reserve system, located some 100 kilometres from mainland Belize on Lighthouse Reef. It was made famous by French oceanographer Jacques. Yves Cousteau ...
Advantages: jungle remote and a great place Disadvantages: 10 miles from any place.
Before you donate to any non-profit check with the IRS. ACES's 501(c)(3) partner 'The BelizeBelize Economic & Ecological Development Fund. Check out with the iRS.
The pristine jungle sanctuary is eco-friendly and runs entirely on solar. Only 15 minutes by road or by boat from Punta Gorda, the Toledo District's Capital.
ACES limits the number of students to maximum of 5 students per session and provides a community 4wd vehicle, includes crocodile research river excursions, and professional training.
The organization makes claim that all funds are utilized 100% for the preservation of Belize's American Crocodiles donations, non profit, Crocodile, Orgs, Internal Revenue Service, Belize, Punta Gorda.
At time of this article this organization is promoting the idea of the donation?s for a new pen for one of the crocodiles they captured ...
afterpartynews 04.12.2009
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