Tourists beware! Don't go to this beach! My husband and I went here on a Monday because Old Belize was closed and we wanted to swim. It was fine for about 15 minutes until a beat up old truck arrived and parked right beside our stuff, we immediately started to swim for the shore and then 2 men came galloping up on horseback with their faces covered and also started milling around our bags. We thought they were going to take off with our stuff but luckily they didn't. My husband got out of the water and they approached him and tried to intimidate him, not so much with what they said but how they said it. We got the hell out of there asap. We thought we were safe because we were directly beside the coast guard headquarters. Don't be fooled, we could have easily been robbed or worse today. We consider ourselves very lucky for having avoided a potentially very dangerous situation.