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| Hol Chan, Mayan for little channel, is a Marine Park 25 minutes from Caye
Caulker. Visitors say it is like swimming in an aquarium, and they are right.
You are surrounded by many species of fishes in this park. Your friend snorkel and you want to dive, but you want to do something together. This is the trip, our custom snorkel and dive tour. They can snorkel while you dive the channel. This is a great dive to spot huge morays and more fish than any other dive around here. Hang with schools of fish that the snorkelers have to dive down to see. Dive through the cave and be eye to eye with the friendly groupers inside, maybe even pet them. This is also a good dive if you have not done a dive in awhile. Marine life is so plentiful at the bottom you will forget that you are only at 30 feet. We're the only one that do this combo dive snorkel on Caye Caulker. The depth at the park starts off at 4 feet and its deepest point is 30 feet. |
The
marine life at this park is so plentiful that in this one spot you will see almost
everything there is to see.You will be eye to eye with huge groupers, jacks, snappers
and many more colorful fishes. You don't even have to get in the water to see
fishes. The fishes come up to the boat for their daily feeding. Hol Chan is famous
for it's deep channel, which is created by two magnificent coral walls rising
up from the channel floor to a few feet from the surface, creating walls approximately
25 feet high filled with colourful marine life darting in and out of this magnificent
mountain of corals. Keep an eye out for a school of eagle rays that are usually
found cruising below. If you have good lungs you can dive down to a cave in the
wall about 15 feet deep and 8 feet in length and dive through to check out the
marine life inside. Don’t be surprised to find huge black and nassau groupers
and moray eels inside. 
Our
guides give you a tour of both sides of the wall and into the shallower section
of the park for a spectacular tour while pointing out all the hidden creatures
that you would normally miss like lobsters, morays, octopus, crabs and more. 
You
will also be quick to learn that these animals are quite friendly and soon you
will be petting, hugging and maybe even kissing them. These creatures will make
you feel quite comfortable to be in their turf. No one will believe you when you
tell them you were swimming with sharks and rays. You can have proof simply by
asking our guides to take underwater pictures of you holding these harmless creatures.
These sharks and rays are totally harmless. The size of the sharks varies from
baby sharks to mama sharks. The shark in this pictures is medium size. The biggest
are about six feet, but remember that they are harmless. The water is about ten
feet deep and the animals are usually swimming on the bottom, so if you are still
a little worried about them you have ten feet between you and the animals. 
We
highly suggest an underwater camera for this tour or you will be sorry for not
having one. Underwater cameras sell for $20.00USD.
on the island. If you never snorkeled before, no worries, we give 
whips
and sponges swaying in the gentle surge creating a feeling of a swimming through
a coral
This
is an unforgettable experience and a very exciting day. Some guests like it so
much they do this trip 2 or 3 times. This tour stops off in San Pedro, the largest
and most populated island of Belize, for lunch and sightseeing. Our guide
will recommend various restaurants or you can take you pick on any of the restaurants.
You can also bring a pack lunch and picnic on the beach. We spend about one and
a half hour on the island, so there is not really too much time to do anything,
but have lunch and a little sightseeing. If you would like to see more of this
island we recommend that you take a water taxi from Caye Caulker and spend the
day exploring this island. 
