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| 39 dive and snorkel sites PLUS the Blue Hole PLUS the largest Barrier Reef in the Western Hemisphere!! This must be Heaven! If you enjoy diving and snorkeling, you're in the right place… | |
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| The Barrier Reef lies about half a mile off the windward side of the island. To the east of the Reef are three separate atoll reefs. There is also a fourth atoll reef, Banco Chinchorro, just to the north in Mexican waters, which will be of particular interest to wreck divers. Flying south into Belize, you can see the reef as an unbroken chain of white surf running along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula and continuing south almost the whole length of the country to the Banguana and Sapodilla Cayes. | |
 Inside the reef the water is shallow, with a blue tinge;
outside the reef the water is deep and from the air shows a dark royal blue. On
very clear days the reef appears as a narrow yellow line dividing the two
shades of blue. Only near Ambergris Caye does the reef run so close to a
well-populated caye. Here it is an almost unbroken solid wall of magnificent
coral formation broken only by narrow channels called "quebradas". Here an
observant diver can be kept entertained for hours on end by the unending
variety, shapes and colours of the tropical coral. The entire northern stretch
of reef is ideal for macro photography. Vase sponges, tube sponges and coral
pinnacles are home for countless minuscule creatures awaiting discovery.
Shrimps, brittle stars, nudlibranchs, tube worms and tunicates of every
imaginable color are often overlooked by the diver. A particular favorite is
the red-banded coral shrimp. These are present on almost every dive and are
usually found along ledges and gullies. Without touching them, they are easily
coaxed out into suitable position for a photograph. |
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