After taking Roatan from the British in March 1781, General Matias de Galvez, commander of all Spanish forces in Central America, turned his attention to the last English outpost in Honduras.
The amount of road maintenance and new road construction taking place in the summer of 2018 is a game changer for Roatan. “You can hear the change of the atmosphere.
There is a long history of painters moving to tropical islands attracted by the embracing light of the warm sun, luscious greens of the vegetations, and the glorious and inspiring sunsets.
Corals reefs are dying. The MesoAmerican barrier reef surrounding Roatan is experiencing unprecedented fatal stress from increasing water temperature, acidity and nutrients like sewage, pesticides, and fertilizers.
She sits on her rocking chair looking at the Oak Ridge valley her family owned for almost 200 year, her gray hair blowing in the wind as she looks east towards the oak trees moving in the breeze.
The history of boat building on Roatan is as long as the history of the island’s inhabitants. Paya Indians used to make large cayucos, dug out canoes up to 30 feet in length. These boats were used for turtling, fishing, and transport of goods &
I grew up in a place where apartments were pretty much assigned by the socialist government. The 11 storey 200 meter long rectangle of a building where I grew up in Warsaw, Poland brought together the strangest of neighbors.
Workers at the Port of Roatan cruise ship dock got the fright of their lives when at 9 am on April 12, the 244 meter long, 59,000 ton MSC Armonia crashed into the dock at 6.7 knots.
The sixth annual Caribbean Cup Freediving competition took place in Roatan on May 17-25, just a couple hundred meters from West Bay Beach. The competitors came from countries as far as Japan and Tunisia.
