For our upcoming Snorkeling the Reefs of Belize program, we have chosen a region of Belize’s underwater environment that is as diverse as it is expansive. Protected shallow coral gardens, turtle grass meadows, and mangrove channels, each with its own distinct residents, are easily acc
Fifty miles off the coast of Venezuela, Bonaire’s lush band of fringing reef offers ideal conditions for novice and experienced snorkelers alike: calm, warm waters with excellent visibility, consistent sunshine and unspoiled habitat. Traditional spearfishing on Bonaire has been illega
Isla Holbox, located northwest of Cancún above the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula, with its northern shore facing the calm, green waters of the Gulf of Mexico, is for most months of the year a sleepy island with sandy streets and shell-covered beaches. But offshore, an estimated 800-14
“Big Game Safari” – this phrase conjures up images of earth’s largest terrestrial creatures, giraffes, rhinoceri, and lumbering elephants roaming freely in their own environment. Yet even the largest living beast on land is diminutive when compared with the great mammals of the
