Gypsy Moth anchored in Burglary Bay
Approaching the anchorages we discovered the charts and the cruising guide we had was useless. The electronic charts either did not zoom into detail enough or were totally wrong!And Sym swears that the guy who wrote the cruising guide has never actaully visited half the places because the charts are so far out!!
Despite this Roatan is a beautiful island.A perfect place to come on holiday. We stayed a week West End. You were not allowed to anchor there , instead every boat had to pick up a mooring buoy. It cost 40 dollars for the week so it was not too bad. The anchorage was great, with good water for swimming in. We took the dingy right out to the outer reef and did some snorkelling which was fab - loads of fish and coral in crystal clear water!!
The next anchorage we visited was French Harbour. Again the charts were wrong coming into the anchorage.The book was guiding us through waters that looked far to shallow for our draft! Thankfully some guy came out and his dingy and told us the correct way in. He also grounded his first time he tried to enter because of incorrect charts.
French harbour was the best place so far since leaving the Rio. The town was great where there was a massive supermarket full of everything you need. We spent hundreds in there stocking up on all goodies. Fillet Steak (enough for four people) was 12 Dollars!!! How wicked is that? It was so good that we went back the following day and got two more!
The marina complex also had a private beach, a restaurant and bar and cruisers were welcome to use all the facilities for free!! As you can imagine we had a few chilled out days relaxing on the amazing beach!
The snorkelling there was to die for. It was quite a swim out to the reef - on route there was a ship wreck and a sunken aeroplane - but they were too deep to snorkel really. But the reef was the best snorkel i've ever done. The water was so amazing- it was like swimming in an aquarium. Oh and i forgot to mention that Sym broke our new underwater camera by diving down too far to try and get some good shots of the aeroplane wreck. We stayed in French harbour for about a week and then decided to hop down to the next anchorage before sailing across to Guanaja. We were keeping a good eye on the weather waiting for either northerly winds or light variable winds to go around the Nicaraguan bank as our friends Debs and Al were running out of their holiday time and we wanted to get them to Bocas Del Toro in Panama.
The Lizard looks like Brendan preened for a Friday night in Gosport.
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