Silk Cayes and Turtle Ray Ally

Located about 22 miles from Placencia (about 1 hr boat ride), it is made up of three small islands located inside the Gladden Split & Silk Cayes Marine Reserve.

This location is quickly becoming famous for a snorkeling spot  call Turtle Ray Ally. Here you can get close encounters with Sea Turtles, Sting Rays, and Nurse Shark. This is normally done as a bonus snorkel for both diver and snorekelers at the end of the day.

Some of the more frequent dive sites we visit at Silk Cayes are:

• North Wall
  Consider among one of the best dives in Belize, and one of the most popular dives from Placencia, it is known for almost every kind of Caribbean reef creatures, including a few reef sharks, and the occasional whale shark sighting.
• Turtle Canyons
  Named from the Hawksbill and Loggerhead turtles that rest here, this site makes a great second after North Wall. This site also makes a great nursery for spotted drum, arrow crabs and cleaner shrimp, which also makes for good photography.
• White Hole
  Named for the white sandy patch of sand (about 30 feet) where the dive normally begins. You are likely to run into a few Southern Stingrays, Nurse Shark, and Green Moray eels.

Laughing Bird Caye National Park

Located inside the Barrier Reef, about 10 miles from Placencia (30 Min Boat Ride), this long narrow aisle stands on a reef known as a Faro.

A Faro is an angular atoll on a continental shelf, also known as a shelf atoll. this makes it ideal for beginners and novices because the water is calm and clear. While the vast numbers of fish you will see outside the reef are missing, it more than makes up for it with a variety of juvenile fishes and hard and soft corals.

Some of the dive sites we visit :

• Laughing Bird Caye Slope
  This is accessible by shore and boat and is a favorite spot to begin our Discover Scuba Diving Course or Confine Water Dives for the Open Water Certification Classes. It is an excellent fish nursery and gives learning divers something to see while taking these courses.
• Coral Garden
  This is a novice boat dive known for its diversity of Corals. There are also lots of reef fish including spotted drums, as well as invertebrates like lobsters, cleaner shrimp and arrow crabs.

• Laughing Bird Caye South
  It is home to a huge canyon that runs north to south giving it multi-dive potential on either side of the canyon or in between. You can find lobster hiding in the walls, while nurse sharks and southern stingrays lay on the sand.

Pompion Caye 

This small privately own Island located further East of Laughing Bird Caye, South of the Silk cayes, and about 20 miles from Placencia. It is a favorite base for local fishermen as the surrounding reef are full of life.

The more popular dives at Pompion Caye are:

• Pompion Wall
  This dive Site is about 2 miles out from Pompion Caye itself, and 22 miles from Placencia.  The wall starts about 45 feet and drops steeply into the abyss. On top of the wall, you can find many colorful reef fish, while pelagic are often seen in the blue.  Alongside the wall, around 60 – 70 feet, are nook and crannies where you can find lobsters, lurking moray eels, arrow crabs, and feeding hawksbill turtles.
• Pompion Canyon
  The canyons are actually groves in towers of corals.  The current normally dictate the direction we dive, either North to South or South to North. Searching the canyons and spur for marine creatures makes this a really fun dive.