Fast Food in Honduras
Fast Food in Honduras Unlike mainland Honduras, we do not have any of the multi-national fast food outlets/restaurants here on the island of Roatan! This caused the destruction of a personal myth; that you could not travel anywhere on this planet without running into a freakish clown named Ronald. Inroads into the cuisine culture of […]
Getting a Drivers License in Honduras
getting-a-drivers-license-in-honduras by Gary Carlson Another installment of our insanely popular “..in Honduras” series. I grew up in the United States of America, a long long time ago the staff will tell you. Back in the previous millennia, while struggling through the secondary education system I reached the age of 16 at which time it would […]
Rebirth of a Coral Reef
by Gary Carlson The dive site of choice for the last year or so with my oft dive buddy Mickey Charteris is just off the furthest west point of the island of Roatan. It is a huge area rarely dove by those on a casual dive holiday (vacation) which exists far off shore at depths of 25 […]
Sand Flies of the Caribbean
by Gary Carlson At some point in any general conversation about Roatan and the other islands of the Caribbean the subject of our mutual aggravation, the Sand Fly, will come up. Central America, including the island of Roatan, is an Etymologist’s dream. The tropical jungles, with endless warmth and humidity make it the perfect habitat […]
Crime in Honduras
Crime in Honduras by Gary Carlson UPDATED FROM SEPTEMBER 2015 Writing about the crime rates in a country where you are trying to promote tourism is like playing with an 800 pound gorilla, you shouldn’t do that! With a long record of ignoring good advice, we are gonna play anyway. There is no getting around […]
Coral Recovery in Roatan
Rebirth of a Coral Reef The dive site of choice for the last year or so with my oft dive buddy Mickey Charteris is just off the furthest west point of the island of Roatan. It is a huge area rarely dove by those on a casual dive holiday (vacation) which exists far off shore at depths […]
Lionfish Stings in Roatan
lionfish-stings Unless you have just arrived on this planet you are aware that the invasive species Lionfish has established, and in many cases has overwhelmed, the waters along the eastern seaboard of the United States, the entire Caribbean, south along the eastern shores of South America past Brazil, and now the Mediterranean Sea. If not; Welcome, we […]