Blogs from Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras, Central America Caribbean - page 19

Hola Everyone! David here. Time is really flying but our travels remain full of fun, challenges and many amazing experiences, and despite some growing home sickness and missing our families and friends, we're both in good shape. In this instalment of our travel blog I'll provide a taste of our adventures to, and on, both the Corn and the Bay Islands. I'll start with the Corn Islands ( Las Islas del Maíz) which are essentially two very small islands (Big Corn & Little Corn) 70km off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, originally used as a safe haven for pirates when they still plundered the Caribbean. The Corns as they are referred to have some what of a mystique amongst travellers and are certainly not as well known or travelled as most of the other Central American ... read more

Utila, 13 marzo 1990, nighttime. The bar owner has gone home leaving us here at Blue Bayou beach, a place that has started to feel like our second home on Utila....or maybe, our First home since we've hardly spent a night at our hotel the Monkeytail Inn. Every day we come out here, spend the whole day on this beautiful beach, snorkling, drinking Salva Vida beer, smoking pot and getting into serious conversations about life, our innermost secrets, our private lives.....well I'm sure you get the picture. Late afternoon I usually return to the Monkeytail to get our sleepingbags having decided to sleep yet again under the caribean moon. I'm actually started to think that this whole chapter has got to come to an end. Ever since we teamed up with Peter and his afroamerican lady-friend ... read more

Utila, 08 marzo 1990. We've rented a room at the Monkeytail Inn, a wooden structure on stilts that contains only four rooms with the absolute minimum of furniture, two bunkbeds in each room, no toilet and pas de douche. The family we rent the room from live in the house next door and have promised us we can use the sanitary facilities in their place. A waterpump in the garden and a stinking hole in the back of the house that is used as a toilet and seperated from the rest of the room by a dirty curtain. Not that we'll sleep there tonight, we've taken our sleepingbags to the beach behind the airstrip, a small beach with palm trees where we want to spent the night. We've bought fresh fish and vegetables in the village ... read more

Utila, nighttime. I'm sitting alone on the beach while the others are having fun tripping on the Magic Mushroom noodles they ate together with our fried fish. I've no doubt they're on a completely different world and that while we still have the Peyote buds uneaten lying on James' sleepingbag waiting for consumption. Out in the bay there is a massive marine animal, has been there most of the evening already. Not that I can actually see it, it's too dark for that, it's more a way of sensing the animal's presence brought about, no doubt by the many Milwauki beers I drank and the countless joints Nora offered me. Apart from the mental sensing there is the sounds of heavy grunting and water replacement drifting my way on the sea's breeze. According to the locals ... read more

Hi again! Finally cheap internet, so i decided to write the blog while i can. We are on Roatan. Its one of the Bay Islands in the Carribean Sea off the coast of Honduras. Its probably the most beautiful place my eyes have ever invisioned. The typical white sand and blueturqouise waters, but its mountainous and green lush forest behind us. Its pretty much Vancouver Island in the tropics. Yesterday after a horrible night in a very hot dorm room with some aussies we woke up (well i did) noone else slept, and found a new place to stay. We are staying iin luxury here. AC, TV, huge bed and even a small kitchen. Its not too expensive since there are 5 us in it. A brit (Stew) and an aussie couple (Nick and Alanna). So ... read more