This morning we went to Mr Sherman's Iguana farm. He has a passion for wildlife especially Iguanas. He has devoted his property to protecting them. The Hondurans as well as the Guatemalans like to barbeque them. They also like to eat the eggs. This puts a big dent in the Iguana population. The Iguanas on Mr. Sherman's property seem to be thriving. He makes sure there is no shortage of whatever they need here.

The tourist are leaving lets go back to the trees

My belly is full. Time for a nap.

This is another cut behind the reef there are markers on both sides of the shallow canal. It makes the passages easer if you follow a Dory thay all know where the shallow water and coral heads are.

You never know what you will see when you round the corner in one of the most famous pirate islands in the Caribbean. Guess the name of this vessel post it in comments.

The Hole in the Wall restaurant/bar/cruisers drinking hole or whatever you want to call it. They have all you can eat bar-be que on Fridays and Sundays. The bar-be-que is actually all you can eat lobtser and steak, complete with mashed potatoes, beans and cole slaw and if you are not too slow a dessert. On this day our table was too busy stuffing ourselves with lobster and missed the lemonbars for dessert. Oh well we were too full of lobster anyway.

JD is making Cuba Libras using one of the lemons he picked at the picnic on Cayos Cochino. Yes that is a lemon not a grapefruit or orange. It was really juicy and made an excellent drink. And yes that really is JD. He shave his moustache for the first time in his adult life. Most of the people who know him now have never seen him without it. I am getting used to seeing him with a hairless upper lip but it was quite a shock at first.

The mangrove trees form a canopy over the canals and birds of all kinds live there. The canal is a couple of miles long with only a few sections that have cuts to houses. the canal opens up to become a small lagoon in one spot. The canal connects two harbors that both have access to the open ocean. Traveling the canal makes you feel like you are on a disney land ride.

A number of people have built home along the mangrove canal and in the small lagoons that the canals connect. Some of the houses are huge mansions and some are small shacks but I think this little cottage is especially nice looking and of course it has a fabulous view of the canal and the Caribbean fron the front deck.

Here is one of the mangrove canals that you can dinghy from bight to bight. We met this boat and of course we had to pull over next to the mangrove roots so they could pass. We saw all kinds of birds and the water in the canal is shallow and chrystal clear. The boat in this picture is called a dory and is the main source of transportation in this area.

On the Garifuna island of Chachauate our food was prepared on this clay stove / oven. The pepole paddle their dugout canoes to a neighboring island about three miles away for fresh water and wood.

This is part of our picnic at Cayos Cochino. We had caribbean rice and beans, garlic shrimp, baked zucchini casserole, and lemon bars. The guardian gave us some coconuts for coconut water in trade for some beer. After lunch the gaurdians showed the guys where they could pick lemons and sour tangerina. We all had a great time and of course the food was delicious. cruisers really know how to picnic

This is JD at the waterfront on West End. You think he is having a good time?

This is Linda in West End Roatan Honduras. The day was sunny and hot and we had a nice lunch at a restaurant across from the waterfront