West End

After breakfast, we did a quick walk to check out the pier to see how windy it was.

Little Gecko 

Typical Breakfast

Yes, I need to check the basketball scores

The wind has picked up.

We are going to visit and spend some time on West Bay today.  We walk out to the end of our road and just wait for a taxi, one comes by about every 2 minutes.  Our trick now is to just say $8.00 to west Bay, if they say OK we get in, if not we say goodbye to them as we know another taxi is just around the corner.  Today the first taxi that stopped already had a woman in it.  We are 4 of us, no way could we fit another person with us.  She decides to get out and give the taxi to us and get another one to give this driver more money, this is after she tells us that Liam could share the front with her in her bucket seat, or we could squeeze 4 in the back, no thanks.

The other night when we were here for supper it was really dark so we weren’t too sure what this place looked like.  Today we realize that this is where we stopped on the beach when we were on a cruise here a few years ago. 

Saw him walking down the street

Enjoying the beach at West End

WestEnd

Talia from the B&B had told us this was a great spot to take a snorkel tour from, turned out to be a total waste as it is so windy and visibility is terrible, we have done so much better snorkeling right from our shore, we should have known that the wind would make it bad.

Blue Channel

An expat donated a sailboat to use as a swing. We tried to find how to get there but were not successful.

We are looking for somewhere for lunch and find a little church BBQ’ing outside.  Turns out it is a fundraiser for someone from the congregation that is sick.  BBQ Pork or chicken, perfect, this is where we decide to eat.  Find a picnic table in the shade at the back of the church, all sit on one side and of course the thing starts to flip.  We lose some of our drinks, but save the meals.

We lounge on the beach for the afternoon.  Joey and Andre go snorkeling, poor visibility again from shore but it is fun to people watch at a busier beach. 

We find a 2x1 happy hour that has tables in the shade, too much sun for everyone this trip.  Joey and Wendy had good mojitos, Andre and Liam didn’t think so much of their strawberry margaritas. 

Time to head back to Sandy Beach, we grab a taxi right outside the bar, load all our crap into the trunk, all get in and taxi doesn’t go.  They driver gets out fiddles with something under the hood, gets in again, doesn’t go.  At this point Joey and I start to laugh, poor taxi driver.  We all get out and Liam and Andre push the taxi to the end of the very busy street.  The driver stops when the police come by to see what is happening.  The drinks earlier have Joey and I laughing like crazy again, we did feel bad for the taxi driver, but Andre and Liam pushing a taxi down a street in Roatan just was too much for us.

Another taxi and we are back to the Casita.  Supper tonight is some leftovers from the restaurant yesterday that served us huge portions.  We made some homemade salsa, some nacho chips and we are good for another day. 

Tonights game is Skip Boo, Joey missed the first game napping on our couch, but we woke her up to join in the fun after that.  Another early night, we know the roosters will have us up early again tomorrow.