Roatan, Honduras - Coco View Mini Trip Report - 9-16 March 2013

[large_diver]

My daughter and I spent March 9-16 at Coco View – our second trip in as many years. Great week. Some of the highlights/observations:

• Water temps 79-81F during the week.
• Weather above the water was mainly sunny with daily air temps in the mid-80s F Saturday through Wednesday. We did have rain on a few nights and all day on Thursday. Friday was cloudy and cool, but dry.
• We dove our 5mm full suits all week – comfortable, particularly on the colder days on Thursday-Friday (not sure of the air temps, but they served hot chocolate on the boats). There were folks on our boat wearing rashguards/shorts…these guys were more than a little cold during the SITs on the hot chocolate days.
• We brought raincoats….which was really helpful on the rainy day/nights since the rain was pretty heavy
• Night diving was cancelled Monday night due to stormy/wavy conditions
• Despite the wind and rain during parts of the week, daytime sea conditions were VERY calm, since on several days, winds appeared to be coming out of the north (CCV is on the south side of Roatan). Very different from what we saw last year (minimum 2-3 footers every day).
• Took my daughter on her first night dive = she loved it! We didn’t do more due to rainy/stormy conditions on a few nights.
• There were a large number of CCV newbies there last week = I think they had more than 40 people on the front yard check-out dive Sunday morning. I think it was all handled with the usual CCV efficiency (as recent repeat guests we went straight to boat diving on Sunday morning), but this might be a situation where paying for a Sat. check-out dive would have been a good idea.
• Diving with a newbie diver takes more attention and certainly reduced my photo volume. My daughter had 12 dives prior to this trip...she completed 18 more during this week. It was fun to see her confidence build throughout the week.
• CCV seems to have replaced the fire dancers they used to have on Friday night with a local rock band led by a guitarist of some renown, Brian James. Great show with great music (60s to present day) and lots of dancing by all age groups
• Honduras does not observe daylight savings time, so time time difference vs. US east coast time went from -1 to -2 hours on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Another great trip to Roatan and CCV = hope to get back there soon!

Chris

All pictures taken with a Canon G11, Canon housing, internal flash

[nolatom]

Nice! Thanks for the photos and the report.

Some day I will actually dive outside the U.S. Meantime, reports like this one will have to do... ;-)

[rlm]

I remember Newman's wall having lots of sponges full of banded coral shrimp.

[Zorrr2]

52 DAYYYYYYS and counting . . and I'll be going home . . ) CCV here I come !!!

Glade to see you and your daughter had such a great time !!!! I am sure that trip will never be forgotten by you two !!!!

Very nice photos !!!! If the RED BOAT was yours . . I am sure you know why we love diving with KIRK and DAVE !!!!

Thanks for the memories !!!! )

[large_diver]

Yes - Red boat for the 2nd straight year...love Kirk and Dave as well.

Already trying to figure out when we can get back :-)

Thanks for the comments.

Chris

[Goose]

Thanks for sharing. Hope to make it to CCV one year.
The past two year's we've gone to Anthony's Key on the north side of Roatan.

[Cat]

Nice concise report. Great pictures esp. the indigo hamlet.

Thanks for sharing! Happy Diving! Cat

[large_diver]

Thanks Cat!

Chris

[chicagoscubamom]

Thanks for the nice report and beautiful photos! We are headed to Roatan in August for our first visit, its great to hear about other experiences.