Cayos Cochinos

[roatanjan]

We will be staying on Utila for Feb. and March and would like to get to the Cayos Cochinos to either dive or snorkle.Anyone have any info?Thanks. :shades:

 

[Doc]

We will be staying on Utila for Feb. and March and would like to get to the Cayos Cochinos to either dive or snorkle.Anyone have any info?Thanks. :shades:

You're going to need someone with a reliable, stable and fast boat. I reckon that's about 40 mile across open ocean. I don't know of anyone in Utila who does this.

Snorkeling is not an option in my limited experience at "Pig Islands" (Cayos Cochinos). I do believ that SubWay Watersports does it when possible from their base on the S side of Roatan.

Sounds like an adventure.

 

[texinutila]

A couple of water taxis make the trip from Utila, but you want to have good, flat conditions for the trip. Check out Chris here at Ecomarine/Gunter's Dive Center. He has a fast water taxi. The best option is a sailing charter. A three day trip is usually $150, which includes food but not diving. We can arrange the diving and the gear. Two captains make the trip, Hank on the Sunyata, and Rusty on the Brazen. I regularly arrange trips with both of these captains, and Rusty usually hangs around Ecomarine when he's waiting on a charter.
Give me a PM or come see me when you get here and I'll see what I can do.
Mark (Tex) Rogers and the Ecomarine Team
http://www.riconet.de/ecomarine/
http://www.colibri-resort.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/articles/A45659-2004Aug6.html
http://www.allaroundtheworld.de/honduras_utila_me.html

 

[texinutila]

Also, it's about 24 miles from Utila to Cayos Cochinos.

 

[Doc]

Also, it's about 24 miles from Utila to Cayos Cochinos.

That must be so as you know the map, but I guarantee you that in a water taxi it would feel like 40. I once did a water taxi from Oak Ridge over to see Pepper in Barbaretta, maybe, I dunno, 8 miles.

Damn near died.