Who would have known this was our last trip in 2020 before a world pandemic hit and banned travel? We feel lucky to have explored a bit more of our oceans before being homebound for months upon months and treasure our time under the sea with our slippery sea friends!
Roatan, Honduras felt incredibly safe for us and we throughly enjoyed our time spent in the West End of the island. From our guest stay, we could walk to the downtown street that offered yummy local eats, beach front, and of course - Coconut Tree Divers - where we would eventually earn our advanced diving certification.
Other than meeting many new sea creatures, the other highlight was definitely holding a sloth! We visited a sanctuary that had 3 sloth and boy, are they ever as slow as they seem to be in cartoons. He held on tight to my arm with his 3 toes and I instantly fell in love!
Of course we spent several hours underwater, really as many as we could per day for both day dives and night dives. Among our favourite creatures spotted were: eagle rays, many-a turtles, nurse shark, nudibranches, parrotfish, flounders, groupers, pufferfish, angelfish, bennies, crabs, arrow crabs, fireworms, octopus (on a night dive), and christmas tree worms.
On one of the night dives we all sat on the ground and turned off our torches, waiting for bioluminescent creatures to appear, which they did not, but it was still worth the wait. It felt peaceful and was a moment for pure and simple mindfulness.
We worked with DM, Augustina to achieve the next stage in certification, advanced open water. We had to chose 5 skills to work on, to which we chose: navigation, night dive, fish id, deep dive, and buoyancy. At one point we got as low as 100 feet and were still able to multiply and and make sense of questions asked (aka no narcosis). It felt like a great achievement to complete the next stage for our diving. Now our only hope is that one day the world will open up and to be our oyster!
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