“Trujillo has a great future, and it always will.” The town has always been, on paper at least, a very attractive, well-situated and strategic place. It sits in a large, deep bay; it has access to the fertile Aguán Valley and is a launching point
Roatan is growing in leaps and bounds. With dozens of commercial centers about to open for business, the signage business is booming as well. Signs and signage are becoming more elaborate in order to help us orientate ourselves and recognize places we are attempting to
Several times a day a concert of dolphin clicks, whistles, moans, trills and squeaks fill the air in sandy bay. Just south of Bailey’s Key there is a unique center for 17 Bottle nose dolphins in Central America.
In 1683 Roatan hosted the largest meeting of pirates in history; they planned a series of attacks on Spanish towns and shipping routes.
Throughout the colonial period, and up to the abolition of slavery in 1785, in Spanish held countries, Spain relied almost exclusively on local indigenous labor.
Roatan and the other four Bay Islands enjoyed the status of being a full-fledged British Conoly from 1852 until 1859.
Roatan experienced it’s most deadly airplane crash in history when on May 18 a Piper Cherokee Six with pilot and four passengers on board crashed right after takeoff.
The inhabitants of Roatan and the other Bay Islands were much relieved in 1683, when notorious Dutch pirate, Nicholas Van Hoorn, attacked Trujillo in his massive “triple-decker warship.” His St Nicholas Day carried a small army of 300 men.