Snuba Tour Hol Chan Marine Reserve or Mexico Rocks

Snuba equipment covers your mouth and nose, like a regular scuba diving mask. Instead of carrying tanks of oxygen with you, your equipment attaches to the oxygen on the boat via a long tube. This makes it easy to breathe while you remain safely tethered to the boat.

Mexico Rocks Marine Reserve is a shallow patch reef complex located off the far northern tip of Ambergris Caye, in the Belizean Barrier Reef. The Montastraea annularis patch corals that dominate here are unique to Ambergris Caye's northern lagoon and a rare occurrence in Belize; the only other such patch reefs in the country are located at Glover's Reef. The area is known for conch, banded shrimps, arrow crabs, flounders, stingrays, yellow tail snappers, and an assortment of butterflyfishes and angelfishes.

Hol Chan Marine Reserve is approximately 4 miles south of San Pedro Ambergris Caye. Hol Chan is Mayan for "little channel". It is the single most popular day trip from San Pedro, perfect for snorkeling or diving. The reserve covers approximately three square miles and is divided into three zones. Each one is clearly marked by buoys. The entire reserve focuses on a cut through the reef which is little more than 25 yards wide and 30 feet deep. The cut is open to the sea beyond the reef, so allows marine creatures to travel from the outside of the reef to the inside and vice versa. Over 160 species of fish have been recorded in the reserve, along with forty types of coral, five species of sponge, two sea grasses, three species of sea turtle and three marine mammals. You may spot adult blue striped grunts, French grunts, white grunts, gray snappers, French angelfish, gray angelfish. The seagrass beds have parrotfish, hogfish, and occasional turtles. Manatees are rare visitors. Shark Ray Alley has nurse sharks, rays, and occasionally other fish.The Hol Chan Marine Reserve has clear Caribbean water, so you can see a good distance in every direction.

On your Snuba trip you’ll have the chance to see stingrays, small nurse sharks, and sea turtles. Swim around the reef to look at the spiny sea urchins and unusual underwater plant life.