Honduras – Roatán

Anthony’s Key Resort was offering a 2021 “Run of the House” Special with discounted rates for all categories of rooms on the private key. We signed up for 2 weeks of the SCUBA package along with Becky’s parents. For $1199 per week, we had 3 boat dives per day plus 2 night dives per week, breakfast, lunch and dinner at the hillside restaurant, a waterfront bungalow, unlimited shore dives, and free use of kayaks and stand up paddle boards. Not too shabby! Roatan has been on our list as a dive destination since our failed attempt to dive back in 2019 when we got rained out so this was the perfect excuse. In 14 days we squeezed in a total of 44 dives and saw tons of marine life – numerous turtles, seahorses, an elusive frogfish, octopi, schools of tropical fish, and we even got to play with dolphins! So much fun and we were very pleased to have selected Anthony’s Key for our vacation. The laid back island vibes seemed to attract lots of repeat customers – at least half of the resort’s guests were returning guests. The only negative to note were the no see ums which were as vicious as others had reported. They leave an incredibly itchy bite and were a torment at dusk and dawn. Other than that, we loved our SCUBA retreat in lovely Roatan. So much so that we are coming back here for a repeat visit in June of 2022.

View as we land into Roatan Airport; Honduras

Anthony's Key Resort - our home for 2 weeks!

Striking a pose in the oversized chair at Anthony's Key Resort

Where we spent the afternoons trying to escape the no see ums

Robby in a hammock on our porch

Stairs leading up to the resort restaurant where all meals were included

The first of many beautiful sunsets in Roatan

Ann smiles outside her waterfront bungalow

A very happy Joel shuttling us across to the dive center

Pete leading a dive orientation briefing on the first morning after our arrival

Queen angelfish

Whitespotted filefish

Smooth trunkfish

Hawksbill turtle munching on coral

Afternoon view of Anthony's Key

Robby smiles as we head out for our 3rd dive of the day

Becky at our Key Deluxe bungalow

Happy hour with Bob and Ann

6:30 am view as we wake up early for breakfast before the first dive at 8 am

Green turtle with a couple of remora hitchhikers

Dive humor

Beautiful shades of blue as we cruise around Roatan

Scrawled filefish

Enjoying happy hour (2 for 1 drinks) before dinner

Longnose seahorse swimming to a coral formation on The Odyssey shipwreck

Southern stingray

October is rainy season in Roatan. Thankfully the storms only lasted a few minutes!

Swimming pool at Maya Key

Hungry iguana, Maya Key

Blue-and-yellow macaw

Mayan archaeological display at Maya Key

Robby strikes a pose at a display at the Mayan cultural exhibit; Maya Key

Carved detail on the Mayan display at Maya Key

Bird at the Animal Rescue Center; Maya Key

Stelae at the base of steps leading to a Mayan temple; Maya Key

Peccary pig

Pink ixora

Atlantic spadefish

Neon gobies

One afternoon we had the boat to ourselves along with Lucas (dive master) and Rupert (boat captain) on board the Sabrina

Barracuda

A school of blue tang

Map of the dive sites at Anthony's Key Resort

Drum fish

Crab munching on coral during a night dive

Sharp tail eel out hunting at night

Robby, Ann and Bob hopping on the boat shuttle to dinner

Grilled fish for dinner

A barracuda swims past us

Schools of creole wrasse are a common sight in Roatan

Island Fiesta night at Anthony Key Resort

Garifuna dancers

A spotted eagle ray glides by

A pair of slender filefish tries to hide in the soft coral

Group photo taken at the end of our first week on the Sabrina (Lee, Robby, Becky, Holly, Nick, Merrilee, Britney, Christy, Josh, Bill, Ann, Janet, Lucas, Bob & Rupert)