South Side

The water has been choppy with a but of surge so we decided to move the boat around to the South Side of the Island. We loaded all the gear into the boat and headed East. There is a small and beautiful channel at the end of the Island that separates Helane (spelling) another island from Roatan. The channel is probably less than a mile long and is extremely quiet and scenic. It's a natural mangrove channel teaming with life. We had the passengers on board and they enjoyed the trip.

The seas were very flat on the south side so we were able to make a couple of dives without a problem. The guest seem to enjoy the south side more than the north side but because of the weather they haven't really gotten a good taste of the north side. Our second dive was at reef house wall. Gerri and I stayed at reef house in November of 2005. It still looks pretty run down and I was surprised the owners hadn't made more improvements.

I almost forgot that Tuesday night I had a near disaster. I went to be about 9:30 and woke up about 11:00 covered in blood. I had surgery on my ear about a week before coming down and the scab softened up in the salt water and apparantly peeled off. I'm sure there was at least 2 to 4 ounces of blood and I was a bit scared. I finally got it under control however.

I went on the boat ride in the morning but didn't go diving. We left the boat there and a couple of vehicles picked us up. They dropped me off at the local clinic to see the doctor. The doctor has quit so I saw the nurse practitioner and she said it looked good and she cleaned up the mess from the night before. She told me to stay out of the water for a week and stop taking my 81mg aspirin which of course I should have know.

This is Thursday morning and we are headed back to the south side again in cars. We will try to do 3 dives today so we are packing a lunch. I'm up early so we can fill some scuba tanks. Gotta go.