This is something new to us, to ask people for money. But its not for ourselves at least.

We are trying to collect money for Carmen (worked for Justus at the Purple Turtle) and Marcos (our boatcaptain for years now.) Their 8 months old son is having surgery on thursday. Most likely he is gonna have one kidney removed. The treatments so far has not helped and the kidney is very bad. Carmen has been in Tegucigalpa for over a month now. They only have the income from Marcos now. We and Justus have lend them money for the unsuccesful treatments.
The baby is in hospital Maternidad Infantil in Tegucigalpa and before the surgery its common practice to make a deposit. In this case it's lempiras 11.000.

Its all on a very short notice, so we have not had much time to arrange anything.
Jacquie, divemaster in training,...

So these are the news.
Molly, the dogfighther and Lowfat the Padi professional have been missing for over two weeks now. Where are they, where are their furry bodies?
Understand diveshopcats have their jobs assigned to them, and they are missed. Our rhythm every morning has been thrown off. Molly and Lowfat have been, well they have characters as the cats they are. And now they are gone, abducted by aliens who wants to study diveshopcats...or they got killed. Who knows. Nothing left but their 8 kg bag of catfood. Dissapeared from the surface of the crust of this island.

It has been months since there has been any activity on this blog. There really hasn't been much to post. But now Christmas is over and everyone in West End (diveshops, restaurants and bars) had a busy week. Everyone is feeling things really will be better again on the island.

Cruiseship business is picking up. Not all cruisers want to stay in a big group, and thats where the small diveshops in West End come in. Who wants to dive in a group with 14-15 other divers. The marinelife will scatter away when they see all the bubbles and flaring arms and legs.

As to the weather, it has mostly been fine, but when we have a northern coming in we quick change from bikinis, boardshorts to warm clothes to keep warm and dry.
And we can warm up and hang out...

In the ten years we have been here on Roatan, we have never seen any. Some wanna be greenflash, yes if your imagination plays along. But am sure it exsist, as much there is gold at the end of the rainbow. And that I believe, because you can never get there to check it out.

Team Belgium arrived after delays. Gerrit got his open water certification- congratulations. Stijn, Johan and Maarten got a few fundives while they were here. The girls tried snorkeling. Here they are just coming back.

The colorful island of Barbados

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NOTE ! You should not be using coconut to power you dive tank compressor ! I have read reports that the way in which combustion occurs can allow Carbon Monoxide into the tank !

I would like to submit this mini article to register my interest in helping to understand how coconuts could be harvested and used in vehicles and for generators as an alternative for regular fuel. From my initial limited reading you take the COPRA (the flesh but not the shell ?) or just collect the coconuts and pulp them down, extra purification is needed to get the coconut oil. Some people have had more success using a mixture of diesel and coconut oil, I would like a 100 % solution for vehicles and generators etc. Please comment with your knowledge on current projects in the Caribbean on this..

Also viable for local solutions in the...

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