Hello!! Vacation is going well. We are keeping busy in the water like normal. I have 8 dives done, 5 more scheduled and I am waiting on enough people to do a night dive in the next couple of days. I’m done diving Wednesday, we will probably snorkel on Thursday. I need an off day before flying.
We went down to the dive shop this morning and discussed my private dive master option. Fred was available and he should be with me for the rest of my dives. He seems pretty laidback. I don’t think he understood why I selected the private dive master option, he seemed to question if I still wanted him to go with me. We talked to him after we had dinner, I just explained last year it was mostly about my time I went through a tank but this year it was more about not being crowded with other divers. There is a gal that probably should have chosen the private dive master option for her skill level. I think I heard her mention it had been 10 years since she dived. I don’t know if she took a refresher or if the guy who is with her is just trying to teach her. She has had some issues, she didn’t dive yesterday and this morning she was having trouble staying down during the safety stop and he was trying to pull her down from what I seen. Listening to her ask about how much air she had and saying 2000 or 4000 and him tell her 2800 is worrisome.
With my own dive master I have a better DM to diver ratio. 1:1 they had 1:6-7, I think they can go to 1:9. If we keep coming here I will always choose that option and anytime it’s available.
Sounds like the sales guy at our favorite tour company has moved on to another company, he was entertaining to interact with, but Kevin is still there, he sort of has to be, he owns the place! They do like to make deals on the excursions this time of year if anyone is interested in coming to Roatan for a vacation. It’s the slow season before it picks up again in July. The West End is very walkable, plenty of restaurants and shops. It’s interesting that a lot of the places operate like it’s a normal day even when there’s not a huge crowd of tourists. Good time of year if you like water, dining out, drinking and buying souvenirs. There are some land tours, there’s a sloth sanctuary for those into that.
At dinner we watched a dog having a good time swimming back and forth between the Splash inn dock and West End diver’s dock where his friend was doing body weight squats.
Traveling with Emily! 