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We serve Key Lime Pie on the island every Friday night as part of our “Belize Night” menu. This is actually my mother’s recipe, who is from the southern US. I always order Key Lime Pie when I see it on a menu, and I have yet to find a recipe that beats this one.

For one crust:
½ box (1-1/2 packet of graham crackers) graham crackers
¼ cup sugar
½ cup (2 sticks) butter

Melt the butter. Crush the graham crackers in a bowl using something like a full rum bottle (readily available in Belize!). Mix with melted butter and sugar. Coat the inside of a pie pan with butter, then press the graham cracker mix against the bottom and sides of the pan.

For filling for one pie:
3 egg whites
½ cup fresh squeezed lime juice
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 envelope of unflavored gelatin

Beat egg whites about 5 minutes until very light. Stir in lime juice, gelatin and condensed milk. Pour into crusts and chill or even freeze. Should be made a minimum of a few hours before.

To see our full Belize Night menu, see our Private Island menu page

Starting next season, Nov. 2010, Slickrock will be offering a slightly new itinerary for our Adventure Week trip. The outline of the trip will remain the same, with half a week inland and a half week spent on our island. The new changes will occur on the inland part of the trip, where we will now be including a day trip to Tikal, Guatemala, where our group will have the opportunity to explore the largest Mayan ruin ever restored. Huge temples and sprawling building complexes spread out over several square miles of jungle, now protected as a National Park. Tikal is world famous in representing the highest architectural achievements of the Mayan civilization.

In addition, we will see a new Mayan ceremonial cave at Che Chem Ha, were a multitude of artifacts and a deep ceremonial chamber are explored. Later that same day we then descend a section of the Macal River with sit on top kayaks, threading through easy rapids as we exit the stunning 1500′ high gorge.

Our third day is spent running the underground chambers of the Caves Branch River, where we navigate 3 miles of caves in sit on top kayaks. This adventure remains the same as in our previous itineraries, and is probably the most exciting day of the trip.

Returning to Belize City, we take our shuttle boat out to the island on Wed, where we enjoy the myriad of water sport adventures that have made our island the premier adventure sport location in Belize. We have now added paddleboarding and kiteboarding to our roster of activities, but our surf sports , sea kayaking, and snorkeling remain ever popular as our featured events.

We have just put all of our non-holiday dates for the 2010-2011 season on sale: 10% off all packages that visit our private island if you book by August 31, 2010! To read more about this special deal visit our webpage: http://www.slickrock.com/belizevacationdeals.html

It is not widely known that a good surf location exists in Belize, and in fact if one inquires about a good surf break they will invariably get an answer that such a spot does not exist. However, this is not the case, for there is a prime surf break located at Long Caye out at Glover’s Reef.

The windward end of Long Caye is owned by Slickrock Adventures, and it is off this point of the island that a channel though the ring reef of the atoll sets up a nearly perfect surf break. Swells coming in from the Caribbean hit the point of this break in the reef, and roll on through another 200 yards of sloping shoal before dissipating. The shoal is composed of broken coral rubble, not live coral, which has been deposited in the lee of the reef. This forms a safe sea floor on which surfers can walk in the shallower zone, and falling off the break poses no danger in the deeper water since there are no sharp, protruding coral heads in the break zone.

The swells vary in size from an average of 3-4’ but often will break with a 6-8’ face when it has been windy. The NE Trade Winds blow fairly strong and are reliable, so there is almost always a break to surf. The wave begins in 8-10’ of water and rolls with a right shoulder break for several hundred yards on a good day. Surfers can thus enjoy a fairly long ride before the wave finally dissipates in the shallow water near the island.

Slickrock provides surf boards, surf kayaks, and stand-up boards as part of our surfing program, which has been enormously popular with our guests. See these links to our website for more information on the break and pictures of the action:

http://www.slickrock.com/paddleboarding.html

http://www.slickrock.com/surfingbelize.html

http://www.slickrock.com/kayaksurf.html