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Southwater Caye is a 15-acre caye surrounded by coral reef, and
located almost on trop of the Belize portion of the Meso-American
Barrier Reef, a designated World Heritage Site as the longest
living coral reef in the world.
In addition, Southwater
Caye is in the Southwater Caye Marine Park, a Belize-designated
protected area because of the diversity of its marine life, including
mangroves, vast sea-grass beds, coral gardens, coral mounds, vertical
walled drop-offs, Great Frigate Birds, Brown Boobies, Sea Turtles,
Eagle Rays and dolphins, not to mention sportfish.
Activities
As can be imagined,
snorkeling, fishing and diving are the focus of Southwater Caye
activities.
 Snorkeling:
Snorkelers
won't believe the array of corals, schools of fish and other marine
life that lie just 20 yards offshore at Southwater Caye.
Diving:
For
divers, all dives are drift dives because the area is so infrequently
dived that no permanent moorings have been put in place. Nearly
every site is a wall dive or at least adjacent a wall. Deep dives are
planned “over the wall,” while shallow divers are conducted at the top
or just inside the outer reef crest.)
Fishing:
The grass beds of Southwater Caye Marine
Park and the lagoon that surrounds Southwater Caye attract huge
schools of bonefish. Permit, tarpon and snook can be at
the mouth of the Sittee River (and on the area's flats). Also
abundant in the area are Black- and Yellow- Fin Tuna, groupers, Wahoo,
Barracuda, King Mackerel and a variety of snappers and jacks.
Lodging
International Zoological
Expeditions (IZE) Lodge
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