Roatan Expedition Day 2: Team makes it to Roatan
This morning we took a taxi back to the San Pedro Sula airport, passing horse-drawn carts filled with fruit,
an old airplane with sweet WWII Flying Tigers-style nose art,
and a billboard for what appears to be the awesomest educational facility ever: the Albert Einstein International School (“Where imagination is stronger than knowledge”).
An interesting observation: apparently here cacti, rather than tree trunks, are the hot spots for carving one’s name.
We hopped on a tiny plane and flew directly to Roatan,
where we cabbed it to the West End. In 15 minutes flat we checked into our hotel, set up our camera gear and dive equipment, and hustled to Coconut Tree Divers just in time for the 1 pm dive at Fish Den.
There we spotted a turtle, many Black Durgeon, a big grouper, three little arrow crabs, and a rad brittle star clinging to a coral.
Our 2:30 pm site was Half Moon Bay Wall/Divermaster’s Choice, where we found a little cleaning station manned by a couple of Pederson Cleaning Shrimp, some cool coral, a beautiful French Angelfish, and a Queen Angelfish.
We watched the sunset from the dock with our friends from Coconut Tree, and ended the evening with drinks at Sundowner’s and some local pizza.
