What you can see on the Roatán cams
The cameras are at CoCo View, a dive resort on a small cay near French Harbour, on the south coast. One looks out over the calm water to a thatched gazebo at the end of a pier and the open sea, under the wide sky of the south coast. The other looks along the resort's dive dock: the dive boats tied up, the tanks, and divers and staff coming and going as the boats get ready to leave.
The sea and the gazebo at CoCo View
From the front of a dive resort on a cay near French Harbour, this camera looks over the calm water of the south coast to a thatched gazebo at the end of a pier and the open sea, under a wide sky.
It shows the state of the sea, the clouds and the light over the south coast of Roatán from sunrise to sunset.
The dive dock at CoCo View
Looking along the dive dock of the resort, this camera shows the dive boats tied up side by side, the tanks and gear, a thatched shelter with a picnic table and the divers and crew getting the boats ready.
It is a view of a dive resort at work: busiest in the morning, when the boats leave for the reef.
An island of divers
The south coast of Roatán is lined with bays and cays where the island's fishing fleets and dive resorts have their docks. The reef runs close to the shore all around the island, with walls that drop into deep water a short swim from the beach, and wrecks sunk on purpose for divers. The islanders speak English as well as Spanish, a legacy of the island's long ties to the British Caribbean.
When to watch Roatán
Honduras keeps Central Standard Time all year, six hours behind UTC, an hour behind Cancun. The water is calmest and clearest in spring and summer; the rainy season, from about October to January, brings showers and the northers of the winter.
Around Roatán
West Bay, at the western tip of the island, has its most famous beach, and West End, next to it, is a village of dive shops and bars. Coxen Hole, the main town, has the airport and a cruise port, and Utila, the smaller Bay Island, is a short flight or boat ride away.
Getting to Roatán
Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport, near Coxen Hole, has flights from the United States and from mainland Honduras. Ferries cross from La Ceiba in about an hour and a half.
