Roatan Island, Monday & Tuesday 12th - 13th October

Monday was a free day to do as we liked so a number of us went for a pre breakfast swim off the hotels landing stage...the same place where the night before we had had a few drinks and swimming, losing a glass over the edge into the murky depths and a phone and wallet.

After that we had a leisurely breakfast in one of the rooms that had both a fridge and a cooker with coffee, fresh fruit and yoghurt that we had bought at the supermarket on the way from the airport to the hotel the previous night. A view looking back from the landing stage to the hotel.

One of the less welcomed guests, a land crab investigating the landing stage. 

 One of the many up market buildings on the waters edge across the small bay opposite the hotel.

 The island is a mecca for diving and all along the front there were restaurants and dive shops in just about equal proportions. Here was one of many dive boats moored on the shore.

 Houses were cheap to buy and rent and hence some were quite large and others simple affairs.

Another view of teh docks.

 The light house restaurant which serves good sized portions plus beans and salad as standard.

Some of us went for a walk along the shore and several people hired kayaks and paddled along the coast. I had bought some goggles and when we approached the hotel's landing stage, I dived to retrieve the glass but to no effect as the water was murky at depth. The lost phone and wallet from the night before had been found under the bed so were never actually lost.

Laurence clearly making his wish not to photographed clear.

 Steve had upgraded to another hotel and ended up in the penthouse suite at the top of the building with marvellous views across the bay.

It was Canadian Thanksgiving and as Zoe is Canadian we went for an evening meal and finished the evening in a bar run by a Canadian with ice hockey in the street outside minus the ice. The bar was festooned with Canadian flags to remind us that it was a Canadian holiday.

The next day we were up early for a snorkel trip and we met our skipper and his deck hand / son down at the docks.

 Due to regulations we had to wear buoyancy aids which are unflattering and we would 'forgot to put them on again' after a swim.

 Some of the places we passed as we went along the coast were grand palaces.

 Mill pond conditions with some of the group in the water.

 An early lunch cum rum punch refreshment stop.

The Lighthouse restaurant from the water but no under water photos until I get a few from Laurence and Evie. There were plenty of fantastic shapes and colours of fish to be seen both on the reefs and the offshore plunging underwater cliffs.

It was another marvellous sunset.

 

 There was a boat moored just off shore with a rope swing so Clare, Zoe and myself swam out to it and had several goes at swinging on the rope. The mast was set slightly to one side with a staircase  rising up from the aft so that you could get higher for a longer swing.

 But the whole boat would swing to one side when you jumped off adding to the fun.