First Day the Last Resort
I arrived in Roatan yesterday around 1:30 central time. Then I spend about an hour waiting in customs, then another 2 or 3 trying to figure out where my other bag was. To make things more difficult I had lost my baggage claim ticket so they couldn't do much about it except wait. I ended up at the resort around 5 or 6 and shortly after was informed that my bag had arrived so it all ended well.
I think the word "resort" conjures up images that do not go along with the place we're staying. It's more like summer camp. There are several large "cabins" nestled amongst the foliage each a couple floors with about 4 or 5 rooms per floor. It's cozy and comfortable and really relaxing. Very laid back.
It's also great to see all the Holyoke Underwater folks again, even though it's been two years since Cayman Brac as soon as I was sitting down at dinner with all of them yesterday it felt like just yesterday.
We have three meals a day and as Donna (a staff member who drove me from the airport and helped sort out my bag-misplacement issue) put it, "it's kind of like mom's house, we cook something each day and if you don't like it we figure you can make your own arrangements." So far I haven't had any complaints about the food. Not that I ever complain about food anyway.
We had our first dive this morning, apparently there were some interesting things like a lobster and a turtle but I didn't see any of them. In fact I didn't see much of anything aside from the usual fish and sponges and coral but that was still nice. Just being in the water is nice regardless of seeing anything terribly rare. It sounds like the plan is to do a shark dive in the afternoon. That should be pretty exciting though I must admit I'm a tiny bit nervous. I do still have a bit of a bloody wound on my elbow so I hope the sharks are more interested in the food that our dive masters will be giving them... at least I think they'll be giving them food, I'm not exactly sure how it works, it seemed like a last-minute change cuz the usual shark-dive people couldn't take us or something so our folks were like "well, we can just do it" It that means we don't have to pay the $85 than I guess we can put up with it.
To add to the feeling that we truly are not in Kansas any more is the fact that the power goes out fairly regularly. I'm hoping it will stay on long enough this time for me to post this and upload a few photos. It's not really that big of a deal, not like we really need electricity for anything here.
As much as the stability of the electricity supply allows I will upload photos to flickr from time to time, already put a few up from today.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hazybluedot
I think the word "resort" conjures up images that do not go along with the place we're staying. It's more like summer camp. There are several large "cabins" nestled amongst the foliage each a couple floors with about 4 or 5 rooms per floor. It's cozy and comfortable and really relaxing. Very laid back.
It's also great to see all the Holyoke Underwater folks again, even though it's been two years since Cayman Brac as soon as I was sitting down at dinner with all of them yesterday it felt like just yesterday.
We have three meals a day and as Donna (a staff member who drove me from the airport and helped sort out my bag-misplacement issue) put it, "it's kind of like mom's house, we cook something each day and if you don't like it we figure you can make your own arrangements." So far I haven't had any complaints about the food. Not that I ever complain about food anyway.
We had our first dive this morning, apparently there were some interesting things like a lobster and a turtle but I didn't see any of them. In fact I didn't see much of anything aside from the usual fish and sponges and coral but that was still nice. Just being in the water is nice regardless of seeing anything terribly rare. It sounds like the plan is to do a shark dive in the afternoon. That should be pretty exciting though I must admit I'm a tiny bit nervous. I do still have a bit of a bloody wound on my elbow so I hope the sharks are more interested in the food that our dive masters will be giving them... at least I think they'll be giving them food, I'm not exactly sure how it works, it seemed like a last-minute change cuz the usual shark-dive people couldn't take us or something so our folks were like "well, we can just do it" It that means we don't have to pay the $85 than I guess we can put up with it.
To add to the feeling that we truly are not in Kansas any more is the fact that the power goes out fairly regularly. I'm hoping it will stay on long enough this time for me to post this and upload a few photos. It's not really that big of a deal, not like we really need electricity for anything here.
As much as the stability of the electricity supply allows I will upload photos to flickr from time to time, already put a few up from today.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hazybluedot