Then there’s the Blue Hole, which is a must for all divers. It’s a deep, and consequently short, dive, but well worth the 2- to 3-hour ride (in some choppy water) to get there. The Amigos website (http://amigosdive.com/bluehole.html) does a good job at walking you through the day.

But I remember the awesome feeling as you descend to over 130 feet and start swimming in between some stalactites and looking at some huge sharks - way cool!!! Lunch is on Half Moon Cay, where I was told I could see some great booby’s… birds as it turns out.

The boat ride to the Blue Hole from Ambergris Caye is about 2 hours long and leaves at 6am. The ride can be rough, so I recommend taking a motion sickness pill -- even if you don't usually need to.

You will be fed breakfast and lunch by the boat staff (we went with Amigos Del Mar). We stopped for lunch at Half Moon Caye, where you can see red-footed booby birds as you walk along conche shell-lined paths.

We were taken on two other gorgeous dives after the Blue Hole off of Half Moon Caye. They are drift dives, which means that the boat picks you up wherever you surface. We saw turtles, eagle rays, toadfish, gorgonian trees, and lots of other great stuff.

The cost for the whole day is about $150 US. It's worth it.