I have another one of those unbelievable stories today. I had a diver that wanted to go diving on the south side so I offered him a ride this morning. I dropped him off on the other side and he jump in a water taxi to complete his journey to the diving resort. I told him I'd be back at 1:00 pm. I arrived about 12:45 and patiently waited for over an hour and he never showed up. I called the resort and got a Spanish recording so I had no idea what was going on. No one around the taxi area spoke English so I was stuck. About 2:00 pm I finally got tired of waiting so I bargained for a water taxi of my own to go find the guy.
The taxi's are stacked one against the other. You have into and over the various canoes until you get to yours. It can be tricky and I don't much like it. There was a monkey on outside boat - the one I was taking. When I got onto the boat, the monkey went crazy and attacked me. I was screaming and monkey was howling and showing his teeth and claws. Both of us were swinging wildly with no actually touches I hope. The damn thing was on a rope but all locals were as afraid of it as me so no one helped out including a police officer. I finally managed to scramble back onto shore and made sure they understood I wasn't moving until the monkey left. One of them finally got end of the boat and pushed it to another area so I could board without the monkey. I was pretty darn shaken up and scared. The monkey was dirty and skinny and about 4 feet tall or better when standing on its legs with its arms stretched out. NEVER AGAIN.
I ran into the guy I was waiting for in the channel so I had the driver turn around. It was a good thing I showed up, the guy had no idea which dock to tell the driver to go too. We made it back without further incident.
I hear and see that a huge storm is headed this way. The timing couldn't be worse. With 16 divers coming in, I'm not sure I can even get them transported across the Island if we have to move. It's going to be an interesting week. The resort has asked me to go to the airport to help with bags and things since they have such a crown and don't have enough cars to carry all the luggage.
The Internet has been up and donw all day and it's pretty frustrating. I think it may be a problem at the resort. They has so many wires, routers, switches and other stuff running the so called network that I'm surprised it works at all. Apparantly it all gets messed up when the electric goes off which has been happening at least once each day. Fun, fun, fun.
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That is pretty scary, you may want to consider getting some pepper-spray and carry it with you at all times, Roatan is beautiful but can be ugly at times.
If you want to see something cool and a little bit safer, go down to the Brick Bay resort and visit the cat monkey, it is chained up and has a bunch of pet cats, the animal is very timid and moves away if a human male approaches but will interact with females, but make sure the ladies don't pick him up as he will hug her tight, which is cute, but won't let go.
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