One of the main attraction of Belize is its reef and the Great Blue Hole. The Belize Reef is the world’s second longest (after the Great Barrier Reef) and offers some truly amazing sights including coral canyons, an astonishing range of tropical fish, manta rays, sharks and barracudas.
The Great Blue hole is located around 100 kilometers off the coast of Belize. Its one of the Must-Sees for divers therefore I took the opportunity to go on a daily diving trip (including 2 more dives at the barrier reef), while Niels viewed it on a bird’s eye view. It is circular in shape (over 300 meters in diameter and 125 meters deep), in the middle its dark blue and surrounded by an atoll with light turquoise water. The sinkhole originally formed as a limestone cave during a time when sea levels were much lower. As the ocean began to rise, the cave system flooded and eventually collapsed, creating a “vertical cave” in the ocean. To be honest the marine life inside the Blue Hole is not very interesting, besides some fish, barracudas and reef-sharks there was not much to see. Its more about the geological formations that now lie in the ocean’s depths. Going down to 35 m huge stalactites and stalagmites arise, some reaching 9-12 meters in length. We got the opportunity to dive through them.
“Captain MueWi speaking – do you all feel save?”
Blue Hole from the bird´s eye view
Diving the Blue Hole was dark and a little creepy 
We did it 35 meters in the Blue Hole
After the Blue hole we did two more dives at great dive sites
After the second dive we had a lunch stop at this nice little island
Hermit crabs everywhere
Third dive 
After the diving we received a reward for the exhausting day (rum punch served by my dive buddy)
Some more impressions from Niels bird´s eye view
The Split 
