Roatan and diving
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Roatan,
Honduras
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Just a short entry about my second time I have found a paradise island on my gap travels. The first being Zanzibar of course, but the second with a slightly shorter but equally bumpy ferry ride over was last week to the Bay Islands. About 2hours off Honduras and surrounded by beautiful reefs and ship wrecks, it was the land of pirates in the past!
Had great 4days there, relaxing and stayed in a great hotel. They had just finished cementing the pool about 5minutes before I got in the pool, timing! Got into scuba diving again, which I hadnīt done for over 2years, which clearly showed when I set up all my kit back to front and did not know what was going on. The diving was incredible, once you get under water the cliche of a whole world opens up to you happened. Huge walls of reefs, brightly coloured and some monster sized barracudas and lobsters pottering around and lots of weird looking things hidden in the reef. Got a littel hooked on the diving again (probably all the extra oxygen going to my head!) and few dives later saw 2turtles when we were diving. First turtle swam alongside me for a while, just pottering looking a lot more graceful than me with tank, kit and flippers and the second turtle was munching on the reef! I could hear him chomping. It was so exciting and a huge highlight for me, loved Roatan, could happily go back and spend weeks there on the beaches and diving every day. Heaven!
