The ferry was like a giant speedboat. Pancakes for breakfast. Sunny
day, all looked calm, 5 minutes into the crossing the stewards handed
everyone an orange and white stripped sick bag. Felt rough, worried
about the pancakes in my belly, moved downstairs...everyone was
throwing up, stewards constantly on the move with their bags and
tissues. Gross!
Arrived in paradise. Headed to 'West End' and found our apartment at
Arco Iris. Amazing to have a kitchen after eating out every day for
months! Everything on the island was expensive, more like normal US
prices - you pay to be in Caribbean paradise. It was exactly what
paradise should be like though... lapping water along White sand
beach, little jetties going out over crystal clear water, bars on the
beach, and over the water, white sofas with overhanging curtains
overlooking the beach etc.
We were here to dive, so we went with Coconut Tree Divers - looked
like a fun sociable shop, owned by British ex-pat, PJ. $25 per dive.
Amazing reef all around the island, wrecks, caves, tunnels, loads of
fish, turtles. I did 11 dives, didn't see anything huge or unusual,
but I've been spoilt by Thailand, Phillipines and Okinawa. We did see
the biggest moray eel I have ever seen - huge long and very fat. Also
a huge area of garden eels, don't see them very often but very cute
little things. Kirty's daily mission was to find gear that fitted her
- she's tiny, and all the wetsuits were huge and holey. Her nickname
was 'The bag lady' as some of her wetsuits were shredded and hanging
off her. We had one day where we both had the wrong sized fins. Tragic.
We walked along the beaches checking out all the resorts - had
cocktails at Luna Beach, where they filmed a series of Temptation
Island. It was nice but not as grand as we had expected. We wandered
off the beach into this insanely nice resort, it seemed totally
deserted. They had glass bottom canoes, which I thought was a spark of
genius. We found ourselves on a rope swing bridge across a lake and
proceeded across and down to sqawling parrots in cages - huge brightly
coloured birds. We noticed some White faced monkeys running around, as
they came closer we started to get a little nervous. They were very
cheeky and were obviously not afraid of us, probably looking for food.
As more and more came, they became bolder and bolder until one of them
stood up and grabbed my legs. Time to evacuate! It started to bare
it's ugly teeth. Cute monkey became scary screeching monkey, we backed
off then ran, as I looked back over my shoulder o could see at least 5
of them gallopping along behind be at great pace, all with bared
teeth... we picked up our pace - difficult as we were laughing
hysterically. We have this entire episode on flip video.
We escaped the monkeys, then got eaten by huge mosquitoes before
finding our way to West Bay beach.
We had one night out, starting at Luna beach resort drinking monkey
lalas cocktails, then walking back through town. The night ended with
Kirsty dancing on a bar to get some shiny beads. She only managed one
dive the following morning.
We left Roatan after 5 days. Onto our last country, Guatemala!
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