Here it is ... Alcatraz ... AKA Wilmont Bay Services. If this is "prison" then lock me up and throw away the key! This little Cay provides fuel, diesel, propane, ice and water to the cruisers of the area and also to the locals of Guanaja and Bonacca Town. They also have Yamaha engines as well as a Sherwin Williams paint distributorship.
This Sunday morning our friend Jim Jones picked us up in his twin engine Pango and we ran over to Alcatraz for a quick fuel up and then over to his new home on the north side of the island. You can see their new home up on the hill in the picture here......and let me tell you the views from their porch while drinking a cold cervesa were absolutely stunning! They have chosen the Wilmont Bay area of Guanaja and the trade winds that cool you in this area make living without air conditioning easy.
Jim, a local Realtor on Guanaja, is actually the reason we came to check out Guanaja in the first place. He and his wife Cindy sold us our boat about five years ago in the US.....the reason for the sale was that they were relocating to the Bay Islands of Honduras. We listened to Jim sing the praises of Guanaja and finally we had to see for ourselves.
We hiked up the hill behind his house and the views got even better! In the distance we could see a cruise ship making it way past Roatan and in the far distance, a freighter making its rounds through the Caribbean Sea.
We meandered back to his porch and chatted, learning and asking questions about Guanaja.
I think this might have been the pivotal moment when we decided that we wanted to come back to Guanaja again....at least with out boat the "FUNLOVERS" and check things out further.
Perhaps Jim and Cindy will be seeing the boat that they left behind in Florida in Guanaja! It is a small world indeed.
To visit Jim and Cindy's web site and learn all about Guanaja go to:
http://www.GuanajaReefRealty.com
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