On Tuesday morning we arrived in Roatan. It was a gray, drizzling day. There was a welcoming committee on the dock for us. This group of people remained there singing and dancing for the entire time we were docked in Roatan.
Roatan is a place of very different cultures. There is the local housing area, where some of the houses don't even have glass in the windows- just shutters that they open during the day. There is also an area where ex-pats have come to live. This is an upscale area of very modern condos, and familiar names such as Wendy's. There is also a tourist area where people come to stay for vacation. Roatan has a very small airport, about the size of Tampa's Peter Knight Airport, but they are very proud to state that it is an international airport. One thing that was strange to see were security guards standing outside of banks wearing bullet-proof vests and carrying shotguns.
Duty -free shops were located at the docks. The ones here had everything from t-shirts to diamond jewelry. Luckily, they also had bottles of coca-cola products, as there were none on board ship.
And so, as they sky remained gray, and it started to get cooler, we bid farewell to Roatan.
We sailed off into the sunset, with our next stop planned for Belize.
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