Roatan is a part of the Bay Islands of Honduras, in the western Carribean. It's a bit of a pain to get to from the east coast of the U.S., with layover in Texas and Honduras, but the diving is quite good. I organized a trip in February 1992 with my family and about six good friends. We stayed at Anthony's Key Resort, an excellent family resort with way cool huts and lots of things to do, including dolphin swims, horseback riding, and a small nature preserve, Bailey's Key. If you stay there you want a hut out on the key, not on Roatan island itself - there are far fewer bugs there due to the sea breezes.
My trip to Roatan was only my second dive trip. While I did enjoy the diving, I doubt that I'd return, given the superior diving I've since found elsewhere.
Here are my dive log entries for the trip:
| Dive No. | Date | Dive Site | Max Depth | Bottom Time | Night? | Notes |
| 11 | 2/15/92 | Half Moon Bay Wall | 64 | 0:49 | N | 1st dive w/Solution computer & Poseidon reg. Big lobster. Overweighted at 14 lbs, I'd been using 6 on Bonaire, but divemaster insisted, grr. |
| 12 | 2/16/92 | Green Outhouse Wall | 72 | 0:49 | N | Great topography, lots of coral, OK fish, no crusteacea |
| 13 | 2/16/92 | Anthony's Key Channel | 38 | 0:31 | Y | DC3 plane on bottom. Lots of coral banded shrimp, huge lobsters, scallops, big cucumbers, arrow crabs, drumfish, cerianthus anemones. |
| 14 | 2/17/92 | Peter's Place | 74 | 0:41 | N | Spectacular topography, BIG crab, great coral. Fish OK, beautiful site. |
| 15 | 2/17/92 | Herbie's Fantasy | 40 | 0:56 | N | Lots of big groupers & yellowtail. Coral canyons in fairly shallow water. Fed & petted 3 big green morays!. Flamingo tongues. |
| 16 | 2/17/92 | Pillar Coral | 55 | 0:53 | N | Used Derek's Micra - flows nice but bubbles in face & has stiff hose. Lush coral, deep ravines. Others saw eagle rays. |
| 17 | 2/18/95 | Unnamed reef, east end | 85 | 0:43 | N | More variety of fish & coral than previous Roatan dives. Queen trigger, queen angel, big tube sponges, nice gorgonians & polyp colonies |
| 18 | 2/18/92 | Unnamed reef #2 | 77 | 0:54 | N | Very lush coral, Derek saw 4' nurse shark, big blue/black trigger, filefish, 18" trumpet, nice wall. Tons of fry all over. |
| 19 | 2/18/92 | Overheat reef | 38 | 0:49 | Y | Very cool dive; lush coral, fans, lots of ravines. Big "toadfish?" making loud noise, octopus in cave network. Big crabs, misc shrimp. |
| 20 | 2/19/92 | West end wall | 88 | 0:41 | N | Drift dive, big wall. Fed groupers, others fed spotted moray. Small 'cuda. Derek had trouble clearing. We came up on the wrong boat!. Beach picnic after dive. |
| 21 | 2/19/92 | Herbie's Fantasy | 34 | 0:50 | N | Divemaster fed morays, wouldn't let us. Derek found great 2' scrawled filefish & giant puffer. |
| 22 | 2/19/92 | Half Moon Bay Wall | 46 | 0:37 | Y | Others' 1st certified dive. Basket star, clouds of krill, big urchins, lots of bioluminescence. Derek congested, not diving. |
| 23 | 2/20/92 | Bear's Den | 61 | 0:43 | N | Uninteresting dead cave. Nice big grouper followed us, big crab w/one claw. |
| 24 | 2/20/95 | Pillar Coral | 60 | 0:43 | Y | Small (8") octopus. Looked for "toadfish", no luck. |
| 25 | 2/21/92 | Deep Eel Garden | 83 | 0:38 | N | 10' nurse shark under ledge. Purple shrimp in curly anemones, lizard fish, big groupers & yellowtails. |
| 26 | 2/21/92 | Gibson Bight | 64 | 0:53 | N | Coral in good condition, 5' 'cuda, big scrawled filefish |
| 27 | 2/21/92 | Divemaster's Choice | 60 | 0:44 | N | Acted as "Jr. Divemaster". Uneventful wall/reef. 6 lbs OK. |
| 28 | 2/22/92 | Berry's Reef | 52 | 0:37 | N | Usual Roatan reef, Derek found a fireworm. |