Blue Hole and Half Moon Caye

For our final diving day we splashed out for a more remote dive to go to the Blue Hole, this meant a 5.30am departure as we were going about 1/3 of the way to Hondouras on a two hour boat ride.

The Blue Hole was a cenote before sea levels changed. Check it out on the map north of this footprint, a perfect 1000 ft circle of blue in the ocean. Our dive took us to just over 30m our deepest ever.

The other dives on this outer reef provided amazing marine life, lots of Caribbean Reef Sharks, Turtles and loads of fish. At the end of our last dive thousands of inquisitive fish had sheltered under the boat and checked us out during our safety stop. It really was like swimming in an aquarium but we were 50 miles from the mainland.

We also visited a bird sanctuary called Half Moon Caye for lunch. Where we found Red Footed Boobie nests along with Magnificent Fridate birds. A bonus was finding the Belize Island Gecko (a subspecies found nowhere else apart from three islands).

One funny connection to the Scottish Highlands was hearing nesting Osprey from our lunchtime walk. Before leaving I found the nest and counted 2 chicks along with the adults.

A great day. Tomorrow we head inland to Crooked TreeBaca selengkapnya