Guanaja - a Boat Trip to the Airport

Guanaja Honduras, the time has arrived for us to leave this little slice of heaven on earth. We pack up our bags and Daniel loads them into the launch and off we go to the airport. Did I mention that there are no roads, or very few, in Guanaja and all travel is done by boat? Our leaving for the US is the Nautilus Resort's "big Event" for the day and Gary and Roger come along also and then Ronnie and Guermo show up later in their boat to say goodbye! These folks have become a mini family to us.The airport is just a small shed and there is no security checks or luggage check in for that matter. Everything is done on Honduran time and we have nothing to worry about as the plane is late arriving for the day, therefore late leaving.

An American couple is off to the side chatting and I notice that he has a tattoo that is very similar to mine, (that story is for another time!), and I comment on it. It turns out that these adventurous guys, Ginger and George, from Austin Texas, have been coming down to the Bay Islands for many years. George owns a diving business and has been bringing the dive tours down to Roatan for several years. They decided that Guanaja was the place that they wanted to make their home and they took the plunge ... by that I mean, they sold everything in the US and purchased property on the North side of Guanaja. They were flying over to the Honduran mainland to shop for their building materials and would be staying in La Ceiba for a few days. What excitement!




The plane arrives and we wander out to the plane. Off we go ... it is a moment of sadness when we take off from Guanaja, this Bay Island Paradise, but we are sure now that we will return ... just a few last pictures ... to say goodbye!