Blue Marlin Lodge, Dive Resort, Southwater Caye, Southern Belize Barrier Reef

	Blue Marlin Lodge On the Living Reef, Southwater Caye, Belize * A PADI International Training Facility *

Blue Marlin Lodge on Southwater Caye, southern barrier reef, Belize

The Blue Marlin Lodge is a charming dive and fishing lodge in what can be argued is one of the most beautiful locations in Belize. The grounds occupy a sizable portion, from beachfront to lagoon, of a small, palm fringed, tropical coral island - Southwater Caye - sitting right on top of the Southern Belize Barrier Reef.

Southwater Caye is in the barrier reef chain of islets offshore Belize, about 14 miles southeast of the coastal town of Dangriga. This is a perfect location for a diver or island seeker.

You can literally walk off Southwater Caye and swim to the crest of the barrier reef - and many divers do, sea conditions permitting. On the other side of the resort property, the island meets the gentle lagoon, a nearly continuous emerald horizon punctuated with a few mangrove islets.

The Blue Marlin Lodge offers vacationers simple pleasures to help them relax. It's no secret that truly phenomenal dive and fish locations are few and far between. The southern atolls, the barrier reef, and the cayes off the lower Belizean coastline offer an untainted mecca for divers and fishermen to explore and preserve.

Guests are offered the best fishing, diving, and relaxing on a private island. Dining on lobster, fresh fish, conch, and other exotic seafood is standard fare at the Blue Marlin Lodge.

Drinking fresh juice and fruity tropical cocktails is the way to cool down in the Caribbean shade.

It is all there waiting for you, so loosen your tie, kick off your shoes, and wiggle your toes in the sand.

There is no traffic - just the clear blue Caribbean as far as the mind can wander...

You can see what Ann from Global Travel likes to do on Southwater Caye in the photo opposite - ahhh... heaven

Accommodations at Blue Marlin Lodge, Belize
The property includes a lagoon-side dive storage shack and boat docks, a clubhouse restaurant, bar and deck. Inside the thatched roof, open-air clubhouse is the funky island bar, complete with pool table and the adjacent Charlie’s dining room, a casual setting with a touch of elegance.

Guest Accommodations house up to 32 people and include two guest apartments with ten guest rooms, three domed cabins and three seaside cottages facing the trade winds. The private beach cabins are newest; all wood with handsome tropical interiors and mounted on posts at the edge of the sea.

The meals, three times a day plus afternoon snacks, are remarkable. The menu takes advantage of island seafood and local fruit. Lunch and dinner are served family style; breakfast is cooked to order. A fresh pot of hot coffee is always waiting.

Scuba Diving at Blue Marlin Lodge

Belize offers some of the world's best diving. As an official PADI Dive Center, Blue Marlin Lodge offers its guests the best diving variety along with the best in dive service, equipment and a full menu of instruction and speciality courses.

Blue Marlin's experienced staff are always prepared, allowing guests more leisure time before, during and after dives

Morning and afternoon single tank boat trips are the normal daily offering. One or two night dives are available each week.

Global Travel's dive specialists,
Karen and Chris, having a great time on
Southwater Caye with Junior

Blue Marlin Lodge, Southwater Caye, Belize

Trips to the reef sites average 5 to 25 minutes and the only really rough seas encountered are when going out through the cut during high windsAll boat dives are drift dives, not because of current, but because this infrequently dived section of the barrier reef is without any permanent moorings.

Nearly every site is a wall dive or at least adjacent a wall. Deep dives are planned “over the wall,” while shallow divers are conducted at the top or just inside the outer reef crest.

An unusual aspect of Blue Marlin is the very generous bottom time allowed; dives start deep and end shallow, allowing for about 50 minutes of average bottom time per dive. Computer diving is encouraged. The divemaster leads the dive but there is freedom of movement within the buddy teams.

The diving is quite spectacular, with walls, marine life and visibility being the highlights of nearly every dive. A fish, invertebrate or coral list would fill a notebook. Snorkeling is as spectacular for the diver and non-diver alike. The lagoon and fore-reef habitats have healthy coral reefs.

Southwater Caye, in particular, offers access to some of the most spectacular wall dives and ocean drop-offs anywhere in the world. Wall dives range from 30 to 120 feet with water visibility averaging 80 to 100 feet and water temperatures between 80 to 85 degrees year around.

Fishing at Blue Marlin Lodge

South Water Caye Fly Fishing

Belize is known as a top destination for sport fishermen from around the world. The variety of different species as well as the numerous types of tackle used provides a wide selection of activities for both the novice and the expert fishermen.

South Water Caye is an Angler's Paradise. The front side is as close as 120 feet to Belize's Barrier Reef. behind the island spreads a large lagoon full of coral reefs and seagrass beds.

Huge schools of bonefish spread out over the lagoon. Tailing these large bonefish schools will provide hours of fly-rod action a few steps out of your room. Bonefish can normally be caught in the shallows from November to March.

Your experienced guides can take you to visit neighboring flats in the mangrove and by the Sittee river mouth for Snook, Permit and Tarpon. Tarpon is most abundant from February through August in the many rivers along the coast.

Deep-sea fishing for big game fish is a favorite at Blue Marlin lodge. In fact, the name for the lodge came from a blue marlin caught right in front of the island by the lodge owners before the lodge was even operational.

Besides blue marlin, there are many other oceanic species that can be caught right off the island, including yellowfin and blackfin tuna, mackerel, bonito, wahoo, white marlin and sailfish. Most of these oceanic species can be caught year around at the Blue Marlin Lodge.

Reef fishing is good year around also. Barracuda is a guaranteed catch near the edges of the reef crest along many of the cuts through the barrier reef. Other species frequenting the reefs of the lagoon are grouper, snappers, and many different species of jacks.

Blue Marlin's experienced fishing guides can arrange for various angling adventures. Whether you're deep sea fishing or fly fishing the flats, Blue Marlin is rigged to handle the request. You can also expect to eat what you catch.

The cooks at the Blue Marlin Lodge are used to waiting for the catch of the day to come in before preparing your evening dinner.

Remember that all the joy and fun associated with the oceans can be found at Blue Marlin Lodge. Any kind of fishing - spin, fly or trolling - can be enjoyed year around. The abundance and variety of fish guarantees that you will have an excellent time sport fishing. Some of our guest have left saying that ...it is impossible to go fishing in Belize without catching something...!

Belize Scuba Diving, Snorlelling & Island Vacation Packages

The Belize Barrier Reef offers the discriminating diver the best in Belize Scuba Diving, and the Blue Marlin Beach Resort is one of the original premiere Belize Diving Resorts. As an official PADI dive center for over 20 years, Blue Marlin Resort offers its guests the best in Belize Diving Packages. Our packages include the best Belize Diving Sites.

Our close proximity to the Belize s Barrier reef allows morning and afternoon single tank boat trips as the normal daily schedule. We are one of the few Belize dive resorts that include a night dive in your Scuba Diving package, allowing you to capture the vivid images of the coral reef after dark.

If you would like to customize your own Belize dive package, and explore the different dive sites in Belize, let us know!

BELIZE DIVING PACKAGES - PRIVATE BEACH COTTAGE

Effective: November 1st, 2024 - October 31st, 2025

Dive Packages	7 Nights	6 Nights	5 Nights	4 Nights	3 Nights
Single Occupancy	$	$	$	$	$
Double Occupancy	$	$	$	$	$
Includes: Private Beach Cottage Accommodation, 3 meals daily, boat transfers Dangriga to lodge & back,hotel & sales tax, 2 tank dive daily, 1 night Dive, boat & guide.

BELIZE DIVING PACKAGES - OCEANVIEW ROOM AND ISLAND IGLOO

Effective: November 1st, 2024 - October 31st, 2025

Dive Packages	7 Nights	6 Nights	5 Nights	4 Nights	3 Nights
Single Occupancy	$	$	$	$	$
Double Occupancy	$	$	$	$	$
Includes: Guest-room Accommodation, 3 meals daily, boat transfers Dangriga to lodge & back,hotel & sales tax, 2 tank dive daily, 1 night Dive, boat & guide.

Please note:

All Packages are per person, in US Dollars based on single or double occupancy

Belize Diving Package includes:

Accommodations in Island Guestrooms with air conditioning/fan
Three meals daily and evening snack
12.5% Sales Tax and 9% room tax
Complimentary welcome cocktail on arrival at island
2 Tank Dive Daily
1 Night Dive During Stay
Daily maid service
Roundtrip Boat Transfers Dangriga/South Water Caye
Roundtrip Airport pick up Dangriga/Blue Marlin Dock
Liason meet & greet at the Phillip Goldson Internation Airport
Free use of Kayaks

What is NOT included:

Domestic Air transfer Belize International to Dangriga
Marine Park Fee of US$5 per person per day
Bar tab
Staff Gratuities or Service Charge

BELIZE VACATION & SNORKEL PACKAGES - ISLAND COTTAGE

Effective: November 1st, 2024 - October 31st, 2025

Vacation / Snorkel Packages	7 Nights	6 Nights	5 Nights	4 Nights	3 Nights
Single Occupancy	$	$	$	$	$
Double Occupancy	$	$	$	$	$
Includes: Guest-room Accommodation, 3 meals daily, boat transfers Dangriga to lodge & back,hotel & sales tax, 2 tank dive daily, 1 night Dive, boat & guide.

Please note: All island vacation and snorkel pacages include the following

Air-conditioned Accommodations
Three meals daily and evening snack
12.5% Sales Tax and 9% room tax
Complimentary welcome cocktail on arrival at island
1 hour Daily Snorkel Tour
1 Island Hopping Tour (minimum 4 night stay)
Daily maid service
Roundtrip Boat Transfers Dangriga/South Water Caye
Roundtrip Airport pick up Dangriga/Blue Marlin Dock
Liason meet & greet at the Phillip Goldson International Airport
FREE Amenities: Kayaks, water toys, snorkel gears, internet wifi

NOT included in Package:

Roundtrip Domestic Airfare Belize International to Dangriga
(We can assist in making reservations: Land transfer options are also available)
Marine Park Fee of US$5 per person per day
Bar Tab
Staff Gratuities or Service charge
All Packages are per person, in US Dollars based on single, double and triple occupancy

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