Bottlenose dolphins grow to a length of 2.8 metres. They weigh up to 230 kilograms and can travel at a speed of 32 kilometres per hour. We'd been told of a place not far from West End where they supposedly live in harmony behind a wire fence, or cage. Elenka, Judka and I decided to conduct our own animal welfare investigation.  When we arrived at the site we hid, camouflaged near a mangrove, and watched as a dozen or so humans fed the dolphins from atop a...

  Elenka and I first came to the village of West End, Roatan in the spring of 2010. Back then a pot-holed dusty, dirt road ran along the waterfront, about a kilometre in length. Joggers, those with a limp, and cars all avoided this nasty main drag. Even so, restaurants, hotels, bars and dive shops seemed to thrive then, as they do now. And Half Moon Bay - a section of West End - where Elenka, her sister Judy, and I are staying saw few boats. That's all cha...