Roatan, Honduras

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Roatan, Honduras


This is to be my favourite island, a place I would love to go back to, though I do not know it at the time for its exactly how I imagined a Caribbean islands to be: blue seas, quaint houses, tropical, lush vegetation, huge plants and still relatively untouched by tourism.

But for how much longer?


We visit the Carambola Botanical Gardens with its rare orchids, exotic trees, and a real Eden-like paradise even with a chocolate tree.
Next is the Roatan Butterfly farm home to birds as well as butterflies including macaws, parrots and toucans.



On returning to the ship we notice a kerfuffle on the gangway. Maybe there's been an accident? Then I hear a group of men chanting:” One, two, three…push! One, two three.push!”

It is an obese woman in a wheelchair being pushed up the gangway.

A young male Indonesian staff member shrugs and smiles: “too much food…too much food”.
Unfazed the woman says, once on board: " Now its time to go and have a nice lunch.”

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Photos

Lets all tweet together
Titchtwitter, alias Ann, gets to know some genuine Tweeters

Could you invent a bird like this?
Toucan, one of the many exotic birds on Roatan

Say "Hi!" to Rusty
Malcolm makes a new friend.