My second trip was in July 2006. Brad and I stayed on Ambergris again at Journey's End resort. The people were nice, the location was fabulous and the beach was cleaned every morning (at some places you can't walk into the water...or you don't want to). We just had a problem with the smell of rotting seaweed that came from the property next door. So, although we had the best cabana there, we quickly moved to another one!

Besides that, our trip was FABULOUS!

We dove five times and snorkeled once at Hol Chan. Our dives were at: Esmerelda, Tuffy Canyon, the Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef and Eagle Ray Wall.

The Blue Hole is a must if you go to Belize and you dive. It's a 2.5 hour boat ride there, but you do three dives in a day - and the other two are spectacular! Granted, the Blue Hole is a 135 ft. dive (the lowest we've ever gone!), but it was COOOOL! The hole used to be a cave and then the top of it collapsed, creating this cool underwater cavern. There are these GIANT stalagmites that are millions of years old that you swim through - and, since the lip of the hole is fairly shallow, once large sharks and fish get in, they usually stay for a while. That being said, we had our first encounter with a school of Bullsharks! The most agressive sharks in the world! (I was hoping for some hammerheads, but these were very exciting!)