West Bay Beach Roatan

We had heard about West Bay and how beautiful it is, but we also heard that it is touristy as well. So we made a full day of it by walking over via the beach so we saw everything in between. We saw so many abondoned boats on the beach and bungalows of get aways that just did not make it, quite sad. We always laughed whenever we saw tourist doing …

Well, first week is coming to a close here on Roatan and I think all three of us are looking forward to moving on ! Roatan has been great, but spending a little less of our funds on Utila will be a welcome change.
As for the last two days, we've been pretty vanilla to say the least. Yesterday was causal, went for a kayak (ran over some coral …

... planned a big night, so we spent the morning our house kayaking and playing on the dock. We had planned on going to West Bay Beach around 3 pm to spend the afternoon and evening.  A restaurant there has a great happy hour, live music, crab races ...

... and Neil, the couple from Christmas day, and got a boat taxi to a beautiful beach just around the corner, called west bay beach... we spent the day snorkeling, swimming and having cocktails... they then came back to our hotel for drinks and snacks and ...

... , so that was positive. Jan 18th - A very nice morning on the beach and snorkelling off the West Bay in Roatan, most pleasant, before lunch in a beach bar, complete with a man playing the keyboard and singing some cheesy tunes. The evening was ...

Today we were headed to West Bay Beach.  It was recently listed as one of the Top Ten beaches in the world.  On the way we stopped in at a resort that has a dolphin show and dolphin encounter, just to ask questions, but happened to be there in ...

... dolphin ring which was a four minute ride out where we watched the organised few swim with the dolphins.  Finally we went to West Bay beach where the kids swam and we ended up at a great bar called ‘Bite on the Beach’ for some sundown ...

West spent an awesome day at the beach.  Very relaxing.  We played in the water, read on the beach and had fun jumping off a floating dock.   Stace couldn't resist buy a necklace from a little boy (maybe 8 years old?).  It is Stace's ...

... dive so Craig and I decided to hire a scooter as we wanted to get out and see the island. We visited West Bay Beach first which is the nicest beach on the island - perfect white sands and turquoise waters.  The lady we rented the ...

... and there are dives every morning and afternoon, with the last boats coming in at around 4:30pm.  Anyhow, I was also recommended West Bay Beach for a day´s visit.  So I went in a water taxi to West Bay Beach for the day.  Yes the beaches ...

... kitchen and hammocks to swing on outside. It was a really nice place. We spent the days snorkeling round Half Moon bay and West Bay Beach. Half Moon was really nice for snorkeling, the water was crystal clear and there was thousands of fish of all ...

... as we had planned but still had a good time – smoothly sliding along parallel to the picture perfect scene of West Bay Beach, spotting fish, turtles and sting rays, dodging erratic water taxis, at least once tumbling into the water - hat, shades, ...