We have settled in to live on Roatan and we love it here. We are anchored in a safe and protected anchorage on the South side of the island and protected not only by the body of the island but by secondary islands and reefs. There is enough civilization here to provide the comforts and we are only a dinghy ride away from snorkeling and diving. Yesterday we made a tour of the island on the small mini busses. These are 15 passenger vans from Japan that ply the roads. It took us some time to figure it out however as this is the first Central American country where they dont paint them with decorations and customized drawings they're just factory colors with a small sign in the windshiel telling you where they are going. It's not too hard really since there is only one road running down the island.
We went over to west end which is nothing but, small hotels, dive shops, and restaurants. Very touristy. I bought a new dive mask to replace the one that was stolen and then back to Coxens hole to mingle with the tourists off the cruise ship for a quick tour of the shops catering to them. I think we stood out a little with those pasty white tourists as we are tanned from head to foot but who knows. The cruise ship had left Tampa, was in Roatan, going on to Belize, Cancun and back to the states. We are following a similar itinerary it just is going to take until next summer.
After a day of shopping we had sundowners on a new friends catamaran, and went back to the boat. Life is good here we have already run into two boats that came here and never left. Stay tuned.