Roatan Island

"Bay Islands - Honduras"

Resort Packages: Anthony's Key Resort The Inn of Last Resort Fantasy Island Beach resort - Dive & Marina

Rooms, Cabanas & Villa's: Lost Paradise Inn Las Rocas Resort Judy's Fantasea

Roatan is the largest of the Bay Islands, some 30 miles long, but often less than a mile wide. It has some of the greatest beaches in the Caribbean, West End Bay, with its magnificent turquoise waters, a favourite haunt of international divers. Although best developed, Roatan is still mostly wilderness. Its Northern reef is very massive and forms a barrier and an inner lagoon between the reef and the island. This reef is bisected by about half a dozen cuts that lead to bays scalloped along the coast. The bays and the few offshore islets form a truly breathtaking scenery. The outside of the reef is a continuous wall that typically begins in shallow water and descents to a 45 degree coral talus and sand slope at about 110 feet. Sometimes the wall plummets to unseen depths. Caves, crevices, overhangs, natural cathedrals, fissures, caverns and protrusions are constant features of the Northern reefs. Roatan's southern side harbours a fringing reef formation, generally closer to shore than the northern reefs and nearly as continuous. Shallow areas provide snorkelling and scuba sites featuring coral gardens knitted by huge stands of elkhorn coral. Deep sites begin shallow and fall directly to a shelf or the abyss below. Large Pelagic fish are occasionally sighted both sides of Roatan.