Half Moon Caye

Half Moon Caye is located about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Belize City at the southeast corner of the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, the outermost coral atoll of Belize’s three atolls.

The Half Moon Caye Wall is a well known dive spot called the “6,000 feet of vertical abyss”. Within this structure, divers will be able to see a diversity of marine life including corals, garden eels, sponge formations, eagle rays, sea turtles and groupers.

The littoral forest on the caye is composed primarily of the orange-flowered Siricote tree, a habitat that supports one of the only breeding grounds for the Red-footed booby in the western Caribbean. It is Belize’s oldest wildlife protection site, designated as a bird sanctuary in 1924 to protect the booby’s habitat.

It is also a habitat tor the endemic Island leaf-toed gecko, also known as the Belize Atoll gecko.
The south-eastern part of the island serves annually as a sea turtle nesting ground from May to November for the Loggerhead, Hawksbill, and Green sea turtles.