CARIBBEAN
Silk Cayes Marine Reserve
- Belize
- Intermediate
- January - December
Plan your dive
- Experience level
- Intermediate
- Depth guide
- Reef 8-25 m
- When to go
- January - December
- Site type
- Reserve Reef
Featured wildlife
- Green turtle
- Caribbean reef shark
- Spotted eagle ray
- Nurse shark
About this dive site
Southern barrier reef day trips from Placencia with turtles and sharks.
Silk Cayes Marine Reserve protects patch reef and wall dives south of Placencia on the central barrier reef. Day boats reach turtle-rich shallows and deeper walls with reef sharks and eagle rays when weather allows. It complements northern Ambergris itineraries for a full Belize reef tour.
Silk Cayes is a Placencia/south-coast day trip; sea state on the southern barrier drives go/no-go.