Come To Roatan And Best Things To Do in Roatan | Honduras

Welcome to Roatan, Honduras. We're gonna show a few of my favorite things about this beautiful island that I've been able to call home the last 15 years. So, well, the ocean is one of my favorite places. We were just passing Lawson Rock. There's beautiful reef that is great for snorkeling and diving. The water is crystal clear. It doesn't get much better than that. And that is my favorite activity. I'm on a side mount diving right there, which is with the two tanks. It's also technical diving. For any of my fellow tech divers out there, come give me a shout. This is just some of our crystal clear waters we have in Roatan, which is, well, 100 foot visibility is almost any day except when there's a storm. That's the only time it gets a little murky. But as you can see, we have, well, this is actually over 100 feet of visibility. And now we're back to the surface for, well, the community, all the amazing things we get to do. This is a sunset cruise. So it starts in the morning with diving. Sunset cruises in the evening. This was one of my favorite things that happened this year. And these are little dolphins. We saw a pod of five of them that were actually, there was a baby right there. If you can see it to the middle left, they were, we believe that was the baby that was born in Half Moon Bay earlier in the year where, well, it was one of the most magical things I've ever gotten to see in Roatan. And this is another one of my favorite features, which is these silversides that sometimes happen once a year. Sometimes they don't. We don't really know why, or I personally don't really know why. This was Blue Channel back in September of 2023. They were the best I had seen in years and years. So much fun. And this is seagrass, which, well, if you visit Roatan and you're on one of the more natural beaches, you're like, what is that? That actually protects the island. It is also a nursery for baby, well, babies, but it does protect the reef and it protects the beaches from erosion, which was, well, now you can see it from the drone right here. This is in Sandy Bay where you can tell, well, there's lots of docks and that's, you want to get in the water from the dock, but all that seagrass actually protects, the island protects from erosion and all of those good things, which is another segue to one of my favorite neighborhoods in Roatan, which is Lawson Rock. I'm highly biased. I built two projects in this neighborhood, but I like all the mature trees and these original developers from 25 years ago did not rip all of the trees down, which is, well, what they're kind of doing right now. And going back to my first project in Lawson Rock, this was a house that took 18 months to design, two and a half years to build, my favorite project to date. And this pool is a thousand square feet. There are two pools right there and it's, well, it's my favorite house I've ever gotten designed. Well, there's a lot of blood, sweat and tears right there, but look at that view when you're standing on the porch. So now, well, look at all this lush greenery. And I know I keep kind of, if you listen to a lot of my videos, I'm talking about the greenery a lot. And that's because there's so much development on this beautiful island right now that I, well, I like maintaining as much of the natural environment as we can. Roots are great. They prevent erosion, just like we saw with the seagrass earlier. Those items protect our beautiful island and, well, prevent us from having mudslides, loss of beach, all of those things that, well, we need to protect our island, protect our investments and protect our home that I'm seeing, well, it's just a lot cheaper to just bulldoze everything and then replant. But I digress, living on an island is a dream. I just love it when we can respect, well, there's a balance with everything. And, well, when you have a reef that is this beautiful, this nice, and this, well- Welcome to Roatan, Honduras. Whether you're here for a day, a week, a month, your entire life, this is the most popular area of Roatan, which is called West Bay Beach. Probably most of you have heard about it or you've heard, seen it on the news. This is the most famous beach in Roatan, Honduras. Right now, at this time of season, we do have less beach than normal. During the spring months, the beach can stay however long you want. You are a very lucky person. I'm obviously highly biased. I am one of those lucky people as well. So we're going to just take a aerial view of the drone. We've already done a walking tour, from walking from one end of West Bay to the other side. It's about 30 minutes, if you really want to hop in, you can do it in about 22 minutes, or that's my kind of workout route timing. So it is a large beach. We are also in kind of a low-sand season where I shot this video, which is in the cooler months. It is also when storms are coming in, so the beach is green. And well, you know, living on this island for 15 years, we are still in West Bay right here. My favorite area is Mandy's Eel Garden, which I'm just going to go with that whole sand patch, which is that light teal at the bottom of the screen. It's not all Mandy's Eel Garden, but I just call it Mandy's Eel Garden. And that's, well, some of the best, I think it's the best areas to snorkel, and also some of my favorite dive sites. I'm a sucker for garden eels. I think they're amazing, but it's actually this spot in particular, which is very, well, close to the end where the new Kempton Hotel is. Right to your left, that little rock right there, it's called Black Rock. And an OAR song also is called Black Rock. And this is, well, this is where you can see the teal. That's technically Mandy's Eel Garden. If we go back to Black Rock, I can show you, well, if you're a tech diver, there's a real wreck called the Josie J, but it is a 60 meter, 200 foot dive. So you gotta be tech to order to do it. But these are some of the things that I've seen in the shallows over at Mandy's, which is, well, it's one of my favorite. It's about 20 feet. So if you like the shallows or if you take, well, pictures, your GoPro works much better with color saturation at 20 feet than it does 60 meters. This is just, well, a beautiful sunset. Now we are going to the south side of the island where, well, what's nice is we were on the north side. Now we're on the south side. What's nice is, well, this is where I tend to dive if we have rain or anything because it is more protected. This is actually Los Fuertes right here. And I was diving at Barefoot K, a wonderful boutique hotel that has nice small groups. This is actually what we're zooming into right now. Los Fuertes is kind of the beginning of, well, right before you get to French Harbor if you're driving on the main road, and that's where more of the industry is. As you can tell, it's absolutely breathtaking. And if we keep going east, this is Brady's Cay, which there is a couple famous counterparts, and this is just a, well, I've already talked about the demolition, so I'm gonna leave it alone with the little French Cay and big French Cay talk. I've already said enough negative things about development, so we're just gonna work on protecting animals. And I do think we are making progress. It should be faster, but, well, look at this beautiful reef. It's one of my favorite places to go. We can kayak, you can dive, you can snorkel, you can do all of the things, but you just have such crystal clear waters in a day. Well, these are one of my favorite days when I get to hang out on, well, on this beautiful reef. This is, well, and anytime you can go to any of the Cays, they're all really great. There's probably about 15 hot tourist spots. I personally like this one, Brady's Cay, because it is $25, and then that becomes a consumption credit, which anytime I go anywhere with my children, we spend way more than, well, children are $12, I think, but we spend more money than that anyway with food and drinks. We played for about six hours this day, kayaked all around the Cays. It was, well, it was so much fun. And then they also have the bouncy castles, and you can see big French Cay, well, little French Cay, but really big French Cay over here. And you can see the dive boats, the snorkeling, how extensive our reef system it is. It is, well, that's the original reason why I came to Roatan was to learn to dive, and then I just never left. And so diving is, well, very near and dear to my heart, and one of the reasons why I, well, I call Roatan home. It's that this is our backyard, and, well, it's very important to me, and I think to the island, and kind of the global culture community that we do protect these beautiful ecosystems and doing what we can. We're making slow progress, but once you see how beautiful this is, it is, well, I'm highly biased, but stuff like this is kind of once in a lifetime and absolutely beautiful, and just, I don't think that anything in this world is prettier than this. My son got to go march in the parade. That was a kid's parade. The Roatan sunsets, they don't get much better than this. I love the cloud movement for today, and even when it rains during rainy season, well, I love the beauty and the sound of the rain and the lights. It's just, well, it's really nice, too. It's better when you're not on a motorcycle driving on the main road in the pouring rain where it's stinging your face, but I digress. This is, well, I think it's very calm and serene, and I was enjoying a nice glass of Acapa, which is my favorite rum made in, actually made in Guatemala, which was a little bit of a change from my Florida Cognac and soda, and with that, this was a sunset cruise, another one. Lots of fun, lots of friends, wonderful community, and with that, I want to thank you for going on a journey with me on my favorite things in Roatan, Honduras. See you next year.