It was David's first day on diving in Roatán with Coconut Tree Divers. It was a pretty slick operation too. They had a couple of very good boats and a guaranteed schedule of at least 4 dives a day and sometimes a night dive too. The morning boat would go out to further away dive sites for a double dive and 2 separate trips in the afternoon would go to closer and shallower sites that were also good for snorkelling. All you needed to do was to put your name on the list the day before and there would be tanks on board for you.

The morning boat didn't leave until a very sociable 9am and with only a 2 minute walk to shop, David was awake in plenty of time. The shop only had 2 questions - "Wreck or Wall?" and "What gear do you need?". For the non-divers, the first question referred to the type of dive you wanted to make. Did you want to dive on a shipwreck or did you want to dive on the vertical face of the reef wall which descends off into the deep blue sea.

David is a certified Wreck diver but his preference is always for a reef which hopefully has an abundance and great variety of corals and fish.

After grabbing some gear, David was on the boat for a quick trip up the coast to White Hole. The reef was full of hard and soft corals and a good variety of small fish. A green moray eel wound it's way down the wall looking more like a snake but generally you only see their head popping out a hole. A couple of turtles, one with only 3 flippers, made the dive a bit more special. Most of the group swam over the second turtle until David spotted it, in amongst the coral, and pointed it out to the group.

The second dive was half way back to base at Pillar Coral. Again there was the same abundance of hard and soft corals but perhaps not as much marine life apart from the six enormous grouper that seemed to follow us for the entire dive. Apart from that, there was one lobster and a few crab legs scattered around.

Back on shore, it was a lazy afternoon - we are adapting to 'island style' very quickly. We ate a late lunch on our balcony and then walked down to the beach to wallow in the warm water for an hour or so.