We are still alive!

As some of you might have already started to suspect we stayed a bit longer than planned on the island of Roatán.

Roatán, being the largest of the Bay Islands in Honduras, is situated about 50 km from the mainland with ferries leaving twice a day from the harbor in La Ceiba. The sea wasn’t very rough, but because of the speed it got quite bumpy and a lot of people got sick. When we arrived we got a ride on the back of a pickup and then took a “Collectivo” to the part of the island called West End. There we found a perfect little cottage in the jungle.

For you who haven’t heard about Roatán before it’s worth mentioning that it’s supposed to be the cheapest place in the world for dive certification which is part of the reason we went there. We found a nice little dive shop that is run by a Danish couple and we signed up for an introduction dive and a certification course. Even though Sabrina on and off had panic attacks and sometimes rather would have taken the “Puke-ferry” back to the mainland, we managed to get through the course and found out that we LOVE diving.

Since then we have stayed, trying to dive as much as possible. We have had quite bad weather a couple of days and on Sundays the dive shop was closed and we “were forced to” go to the beach instead, to do some snorkeling and just lie in the sun.

Now we have managed to scrape together 16 dives, i.e. one Open Water Certificate, one Advanced Open Water Certificate (allowing us to dive to 30m depth) and including among other things a night dive and a wreck dive. We have seen moray eels, sea turtles, rays of different kinds, scorpion fish, barracudas, sea cucumbers, lobster, etc, etc. It has simply been amazing and we finished off with a 32m wreck dive where we had a close encounter with a large spotted eagle-ray.

Fredrik’s birthday we celebrated with our new dive “buddies” drinking Cuba Libre and the Honduran Port Royale beer.

Roatán was perfect, incredible, amazing, so it was quite difficult to leave but if we wanted to see something more on our trip it was definitely time to move on.

We are now in Santa Rosa de Copán, a small mountain town, on the way to El Salvador where we are going next.

Lots of love,

Fredrik (and Sabrina)