23 April Diving at Glover's Reef

We turned up for the first dive of the day at 8.30am and loaded our kit into the boat. There were two American ladies, our dive guide and a boat handler. A nice, small group.

Glovers has three cays, south where we are anchored, North and Middle cays. Our first dive was on the wall at Middle Cay. We dropped on a sand plateau and swam out to the wall. Our guide preferred to swim along the sand while David, I and Canadian Maria opted to swim along the wall. The water is beautifully clear and the wall is deep, corals are healthy. I wish I could say we saw lots of fish, sharks, turtles – they were all noticeable by their absence. It was a short dive – just 40 minutes and I returned to the boat with half a tank of air.

We returned to base at 10.15 am and rested there until the next dive at 11.30am.

For the second dive we were taken to the southern wall where we again dropped on to a sand plateau of 10m above the wall. Another beautiful wall to gentle swim along. Some sand eels waving their heads above their sand hole homes, a barracuda, the biggest lobsters I have ever seen and a sleeping nurse shark.

We were back on the boat in time for lunch. Diving in Belize completed. While it is nice and easy to dive here and the corals are healthy, it's not spectacular like Indonesia, there aren't as many fish, or the variety. In our opinion we would rate the Red Sea, Indonesia, Maldives and Galapagos as better places to dive for diversity and wildlife. Caribbean diving is nice – it's easy and it's accessible.