It was David's first day on diving in Roatán with Coconut Tree Divers. It was a pretty slick operation too. They had a couple of very good boats and a guaranteed schedule of at least 4 dives a day and sometimes a night dive too. The morning boat would go out to further away dive sites for a double dive and 2 separate trips in the afternoon would go to closer and shallower sites that were also good for snorkelling. All you needed to do was to put your name on...

It was a day for relaxing after the stress of yesterday. We walked the 2 minutes from Casa Del Sol down into the town, which is more like the size of a village. Everything is pretty much on the one street which wraps itself around Half Moon Bay. As the name suggests, the bay is a perfect little arc of white sand fringed with palm trees. It seems that Honduras, or at least Roatán, is very American orientated. There is a lot of American influence and many p...

We were leaving Guatemala for the Bay Islands in Honduras today but the day didn't get off to a good start and neither did we realise at the time that it was going to get a whole lot worse. Gabriel, our driver from Flores, was supposed to pick us up at 5am from Hacienda Tijax. The access is via a 2km unsealed road with a security gate at the main road end or alternatively by water taxi. At 5am, however, water taxis aren't working and it turns out neither is the g...