I found out late this evening that there is a free diving school right down the street from our apartment. I’m super disappointed that I didn’t know this sooner. I would love to take a free diving class. Apparently, you can get certified in free diving. If we come back to Roatan, I’ll definitely add that to the things I want to do. I don’t have aspirations to do competitive free diving but I think I could learn to be a better snorkeler and stay under longer if I took some classes. Our snorkel guide tonight was a really good free diver. He has done free diving competitively and his record is 65 meters, which is about 213 feet. That’s impressive! At 30 meters, the pressure of the water starts to push you down and you have to swim against it when you come up. People regularly die free diving. There is a blue hole off the coast of Egypt and more people have died there than on Mt. Everest.
This was our last full day in Roatan. We leave tomorrow around 3pm provided the weather is okay, but we will head to the airport around 12:30. We didn’t have a packed day today. I’m reading a book called Salt, Fat, Sugar: How the Food Industry Addicted Us. It really makes you think differently about food and how the food industry manipulates people. Some years ago, Kool-Aid produced a product called Kool-Aid Kool Burst. They added 1 tbs of fruit juice to each container, then marketed it as a healthy fruit juice product for kids. I read that for a while this morning, then Bill and I went for a walk to look for a Honduras coffee cup. This is not a great place to buy tourist items, which is probably just as well since there are plenty of other ways to spend money. I found a cup. It’s not spectacular, but it can join my other international coffee cups.
We swam in the pool this afternoon, then had a quick supper at a restaurant that had coconut cream pie and key lime pie. We got a piece of each to bring back to the apartment for after our night snorkel trip. They were really good.
The night snorkel trip went well this time. The water was a little murky, but we saw a huge crab, a little Spanish crab that I had never seen or heard of before, and three little squid. The squid were the highlight of the trip. They are super cute! They also seemed interested in our lights and didn’t swim away. It wasn’t the greatest night snorkel I’ve done, but it wasn’t a bad way to end the trip. Bill should have some pictures and our snorkel guide also took pictures and video that he’s going to send us.
I guess that’s all I’ve got. We should be home tomorrow provided that the weather isn’t too bad.
Traveling with Emily! 