We left Guanaja after a week, on Friday and sailed 35miles to French Harbor Roatan. The Bay Islands of Honduras are the only area that we don't have a supplemental cruising guide that would give us details on anchorages etc.
So I have been checking in to the NW Carribbean net on SSB radio each morning and on Friday morning I asked about French Harbor and was told to contact boats on VHF radio when I got closer. We enjoyed a leisurely sail dodging squalls and arrived outside French Harbor mid afternoon. Calling on the radio we made contact with Sailors Run. We had just missed meeting these people in the San Blas but had seen their boat and a hailing port of Long Branch WA. Jeff and Debbie have been sailing their Baba 40 for 13 yrs and have been all over the world. Jeff came on the radio and zipped out in his dinghy to help us over the reef. What a help that was.
We went ashore Saturday to explore and buy a few groceries. Roatan is night and day different from Guanaja . Cruise ships arrive here a few times a week and there is an international airport with daily flights to the States. We put up our Christmas decorations today so we are probably going to stay here for the holidays and then go to the Rio Dulce after the first of the year.
Better to actually visit the Mayan temples in the year 2012 when the world is scheduled to end according to the Mayan calendar.