Spanish Lookout Caye
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Would you love to experience an encounter with Manatees? Spanish Lookout Caye is where you will meet these placid marine creatures, and Atlantic Bottle-nose dolphins, learning about their habits and environment.
This privately owned Island is a place where you can have fun, but at the same time learn extensively about marine life and preservation. The Hugh Parkey Foundation for Marine Awareness & Education is the backbone to the Island`s operations, catering for marine researchers, student groups, divers, snorkelers, and kayakers.
Activities on Spanish Lookout Caye
The island is a tropical Mangrove reserve, situated in the Drowned Cayes, half and hour away from Belize City. It is 184 acres square, surrounded by beds of sea-grass and coral making the area ideal for marine research.
But activities are not limited to study and research. There are times schedules for sea kayaking, scuba diving, and like other island resorts in Belize, snorkeling can be enjoyed at any time.
But that`s not all. Tours to Mayan ruins on the mainland can be included as part of your coarse, and for visitors not on a coarse, inland excursions to rainforests, waterfalls, Maya sites, and cave tubing can be arranged on the resort.
The Eco System
In harmony with the Eco tourism found here, the Belize Adventure Lodge resort`s electricity is powered by solar and wind energy, which is backed up by diesel if all else should fail. The water is carefully reserved, being gathered from rainfall or brought to the Island by boat. Filtered drinking water is available at special designated taps.
You will have to forego some of your creature comforts, but it`s well worth it. If you are dependent on a hair dryer, you`re in for many a bad hair day, because the voltage is not enough to power one. Alternatively, you have the evening breeze of course which is much more gentle on your hair.
Accommodation on Spanish Lookout Caye
The Lodge has a bunkhouse, 2 storeys high. It accommodates 12 people in two rooms on the top, with 2 rooms below for teachers and leaders of groups.
There are also pretty wooden cabanas that sit on the water. They have simplistic, but tasteful interior design, with a rather airy feel, and very comfortable with 2 double beds in each cabana.
Dining can be a private affair, served in the bunkhouse dining room, or one can dine in the main lodge. Food is served Belize style of course, finished off with a rum punch or two perhaps. What more could one want, while you sit sipping your cool drink, looking yonder at the second largest barrier reef in the world.
