Day Seven

Great day today. Woke up at quarter to eight, headed down to the dive shop. Was fee

Vast reef in Roatan. So amazing, pictures and words do not do it justice. 

ling pretty good this morning, even though we were out drinking last night. Got a coffee, the cat took a good jump across tables and dumped half of it. I declared friends off with the cat (name is Friday). Went out on our first dive. The ocean was extremely rough today, we were drift diving, which means you just go with the current. We started at the far west end of the island, where the water starts to get even rougher – we ended up wayyyy past the island – nowhere near out boat. I was a little converned that we would be sitting there for a while waiting. Board found us pretty quickly and we were picked up within 5 minutes of surfacing. This morning we dove at “Texas” for 18m again for 41 minutes. Some of the noteable sightings were a Honeycomb Cowfish, a large Lionfish, a Smooth Trunkfish, a Scrawled Filefish, lots of ocean triggerfish, and a Nasssau Grouper followed us for 15-20 minutes while we dived. The second dive at around 11am was at Half Moon Bay Wall at 18m for 45 minutes. We saw 2 Hawksbill Turtules, a Scrawled Filefish, some Coral Banded Shrimp, Caribbean Spiney lobster, Squat Anenome Shrimp and a Trumpetfish.

We finished diving just after 12pm today. Had one of the locals bring us some fish and chips that he had just made in his apartment, England style. They were fantastic – and he told us a very long story about the dish as well. I was quite tired after the second dive – in fact was feeling a little sick while we were on the boat since the ocean was so rough today. Were bouncing around in 8-10 foot swells on the ocean. This afternoon was my friend Jamie’s last dive as he leaves tomorrow – good guy, will miss him. I left the dive shop shortly after eating my fish and chips. Went back to the room and got showered and changed, then headed down to sundowners beach bar to buy a beer and hang out on the beach loungers. Did some people watching for a bit, and then headed back to my room where i took a nice nap on my hammock until just after 5pm. I then headed to sundowners again, met up with Jamie and Kevin, had a beer and a rum – Me and Jamie then headed down to a restaurant called Eagle Ray’s – a restaurant build on a dock right on the bay, just past Half Moon Bay. Had a Seafood Salad sandwich, unfortunately was the most disappointing meal ive had so far – but I bought dinner for us since it was Jamie’s last night.

After dinner we walked down the main road back to sundowners, with a couple of stops at bars on the way. We were looking for our girlfriends we met yesterday. We made it to Sundowners, and sat there and watched the leafs game. Shortly after arriving, I got a video call from my brother and Andrew – I couldn’t believe it actually worked – Unfortunately it was too dark for them to see anything, but we had a quick chat – mostly about beer – and then said goodbye. After that, the girls showed up (not to mention, they were an hour late :D). We went to some bar closeby and watched a Japanese/African drum band play some tunes. We then headed down to a street taco vendor, got some taco’s and then went to the Blue Marlin. Drank, danced and sang at the Blue Marlin for a while, and then continued on to some dance bar further down - according to my wrist band it is called “Vaon” but I don’t think that is fully correct. Danced there for a while and continued drinking. It was so freaking hot in that place – we had 6 people in our group and 5 of us were so sweaty we had to get outside. After that, we ate some Baleada’s and then I got the girls a cab and send them back to West Bay where they are staying. Not diving tomorrow, going to hang out with the girls I think, and take it easy. May drink tomorrow night, I’m not sure – Jamie leaves tomorrow at noon – so Ill be by myself again. At least the girls will be around to keep me company. Talk to you tomorrow.