Blue Hole National Park


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Published: February 8th 2007
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Me and kyle waiting for the rest of the group to show up
Saturday afternoon me and Kyle caught a bus headed out of Belmopan towards Dangriga. We arrived at the Blue Hole at about 1:30 in the afternoon and immediately got in the water. What an incredible spot! The water was a bit cold, but it was an amazing emerald/turqoise blue. The hole is fed from an underground cavern, and there's some cliffs above that you can jump from (about 30 feet). The bottom was filled with pebbles, and a group of fish seemed to really enjoy swimming with us. About 15 meters downstream is a cave you can swim into, but the amount of debris inside and the darkness started to bug me out.

After we met up with a few other kids from our group, we headed down the trail to St. Herman's cave which is also contained within the park. The cavern system goes about a mile underground, and needless to say it gets dark pretty quickly. After we saw a bit of the cave we made a pretty grueling hike up to the fire tower. The view from the top was incredible, with orange groves to the east and the maya mountains to the west. At about 4
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one of the fish we were sharing the swimming hole with
o'clock we decided it was about time to catch the bus home. After arriving at the road around 5 we waited for a good 45 minutes without seeing a single bus. Once we were half eaten by the bot flies and mosquitos a van rolled up and asked if we needed a ride to belmopan. The group was really nice, and gave us oranges and plantain chips. We ended up getting a ride all the way back into San Ignacio with them, it was the perfect end to an amazing day.


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St. Herman's CaveSt. Herman's Cave
St. Herman's Cave

a forboding entrance
Fire LookoutFire Lookout
Fire Lookout

a view from the top


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