1st Paya Bay Dive

PAYA BAY DIVING

Today is Monday afternoon and I went on my first dives in the Paya Bay area. The dives were typical of this side of Roatan consisting of slopes and spur and groove formations. Our most interesting find was a toad fish and we did see several lobster and a big crab.

The wind picked up considerably when we surfaced from our first dive so we headed to a local dock for our surface interval. Apparently someone is developing the area and they already have a beautiful long pier with a huge deck area above the end of the pier.

This property is the home of a farm that makes specialty Jellies. I didn’t make the trip up to the farm yet but a few people did and they said it was terrific. They have tropical flavors as you might imagine including pineapple, guava and some banana combo that I might like.

We actually picked up a diver at this pier also. He is starting up some sort of kite boarding operation. I’ve seen these things several times and I doubt I’ll try it. It’s going to be interesting to see if people will come this far down the Island to try it. It’s almost an hour from most other resorts.

We did a second dive and then came back for lunch. We discussed the continuing winds and decided to cancel the afternoon dives. This gave me the entire afternoon off. Ben and I went down to the dive shop and talked about our plans and did some measuring of our current boat ladder. Joe (the owner) is going to get a quote on getting a new aluminum lone built. The current one is wood and works pretty well but it’s heavy to handle.

I’m hoping to make a trip to town with Joe and Justin this afternoon only to see some of the stores where they shop for supplies. We need to purchase a few things right now for the large group we having coming in two weeks.

The Internet is down again so I’m preparing this on Word for later uploading.