The resort itself is located on Blackbird Caye within the famous Turneffe Atoll system, declared a marine reserve in 2012 by the Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries, and Sustainable Development. An atoll is a marine structure composed of ring-like coral reefs surrounding a central lagoon. At 30 miles long and 10 miles wide, Turneffe is the largest atoll system in Belize and the most biologically diverse in the Western Hemisphere.
One of its distinctive features is the amount of terrestrial and mangrove vegetation – over 150 islands, found in such a geographic location – so far from the mainland. This prime location affords guests access to more than 70 unspoiled dive and snorkel sites, all within minutes of the resort. Moreover, the resort is only 90 minutes away from a limestone cave structure that the great Jacques Cousteau dubbed as “one of the top 10 scuba diving sites in the world,” the Great Blue Hole. So visually stunning, the 153,000-year-old imploded cave is almost perfectly circular, 1000 feet across and plunging to a depth of 400 feet. She is the largest natural formation of its kind on Earth. Blackbird Caye Resort can take you there.