By Lambe Lamis 
The Belize Barrier Reef is the next largest reef in the earth and only Australia’s Good Barrier Reef is larger. The reef barrier just off the coastline of the Central American country of Belize is a wonderful and beautiful site to see.
Just one of the most well known functions to do even though at Belize’s Barrier Reef for locals and vacationer alike is: spear fishing! If you by no means catch just about anything even though spear fishing it is even now pleasurable and interesting and the regional people often say, “You can not get fish any fresher.”
Just one exercise you should not be expecting to do whilst in Belize is surfing. The reef barrier just off the Belizean cost, in a natural way breaks down waves ahead of they get to the shore.
The Belize Barrier Reef by itself delivers above 1-hundred-million US Pounds to the region each and every single year. Belize has tens of countless numbers of tourist check out each calendar year just to encounter this wonderful reef 1 of Belize’s prized treasures.
Sad to say two big organic disasters threatened to completely wipe out the Belize Barrier Reef. In November of 1998 Hurricane Mitch specifically hit the Barrier Reef ripping up hundreds of years value of coral advancement. Because corals are animals and not plants they can not get root else wherever. Just immediately after Hurricane Mitch, El Nino introduced warmer then common waters to the reef and practically cooked it to death. All the lifeless reef on the base of the ocean ground is acknowledged to the neighborhood Belizean persons as, ‘The Standing Dead.’ In that fish even now like the coral reef irrespective of whether it is useless or alive, there has been no impact to the livelihood of neighborhood individuals, due to the fact, for several, the reef is their major resource of food stuff.
In excess of 10 yrs just after Hurricane Mitch, Belize as a country, is recovering. Even though the Belize Barrier Reef is not fully restored to its’ previous glory, it is very well on its’ way and is nevertheless a will have to see globe attraction! ~Anthony Benjamin~