Cayos Cochinos Tour

 

Tuesday we took a boat tour with Bay Island Adventures 20 miles off the shores of Roatan to an archipelago of islands called Cayos Cochinos.  We anticipated some great snorkeling and a visit to an Garfuna village.  

The waters were a bit rough to start out but the Captain did a great job and we arrived safely.

  This was the first island we were to snorkel at and it looked amazing.  However just after we arrived and got off the boat the military arrived with automatic weapons and told us we could not stay due to some sort of filming going on.  So we loaded back up and went to our second snorkeling site.  We managed to snorkel around the island but the jelly fish were stinging which was not too pleasant and the snorkeling was not fantastic.  

The Garfuna Village was very cool.  150 people live on this tiny island.  The kids take a boat every day to a neighboring island to go to school.  They fed us a wonderful red snapper meal and the kids sold us hand made necklaces.  One of the couples with us had a soccer ball to give the village.  The children all gathered around as they pumped up the ball and then quickly disappeared to go play.

 The third snorkel site was full of seaweed due to the winds we had been having so opted to just hang out on the beach.

Over all we decided that we have been very spoiled on previous snorkel trips as this one was not one of the better ones.  As my Dad used to say " The sharpies got us"  as it was not worth the huge money we paid.  Oh well you win some you loose some.  

The snorkeling right off the beach in West Bay is some of the best we have seen  and its Free!