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The Bay Islands

Off the Caribbean coast of Honduras lie the Bay Islands: Roatán, the largest and most visited, Guanaja and Utila, the smallest of the three. They sit at the southern end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second largest in the world, which runs from Mexico through Belize to Honduras, and they are among the best and most affordable places in the Caribbean to learn to dive.

Roatán and West Bay

On Roatán the cameras watch the water from both ends of the island's diving life. Near French Harbour, on the south coast, a dive resort looks out over the calm sea and along its dock as the boats get ready for the reef. At the western tip, West Bay, the island's most famous beach, is watched from a dive resort's deck, a boardwalk over the sea and a pool by the shore, with the reef just a few strokes from the sand. Next to it, in the village of West End, a camera watches the dock of a dive centre as its boats get ready for the reef.

Utila under the water

Utila is a small, laid-back island known to divers for its walls, its wrecks and the whale sharks that pass along its north coast in some seasons. Its cameras are under the water, on the reef in front of a dive resort: they look at coral heads, sea fans, sand channels and the fish that move through them, from parrotfish to schools of blue tang.

When to watch the Bay Islands

The islands keep Central Standard Time all year, six hours behind UTC, an hour behind Cancun. The water is clearest on calm, sunny days in spring and summer; rain in the autumn and the winter northers can cloud it for a while.