Coco View for 2 weeks - booked

[pennypue]

kc0zi, while CCV has some really nice areas for snorkeling, I'd be more curious to know what your wife likes to do while you dive.

Is it important for her to have a freshwater pool? Shopping?
Or does she just want a lounge chair over the water? Or perhaps she'd prefer to ride along on the boat while you dive. That kind of info is going to be really important for determining the best location for her.

If I weren't a diver, I'd still be ok with CCV. I don't need a pool, I don't like to shop, I need a hammock out of the sun to read, and a lounge chair in the sun to tan and nap. And the kayak with a dog on the bow is awesome. But that's me. Lots of people want more stimulation than that when they're on vacation. (A cruise ship would annoy me to no end!)

 

[Doc]

I would really try to emphasize the snorkeling. Patty is the lady that runs the PADI Center on premises called the Dockside Dive Center. She introduced me into critter spotting many years ago, and if asked- she'll do it for snorkelers.

I would suggest for many a Reef Naturalist PADI Specialty course, they also do this for snorkelers. It is just amazing what we all miss!

CCV hosts an annual barage of septigenarian snorkelers (try saying that three times fast!) who invade the place for a week with their naturalist guide leader and do little other than venture past the "Front Yard". There is so much to see, right around the rooms on that shallow reef.

Besides taking a leisurely meal and a stretch in a hammock whilst the SCUBA Divers are woofing down fuel (food) and toddling off to the room to do a log book entry or fiddling about as divers are wont to do- snorkelers have a more leisurely lifestyle. Lemmeeseee.... flippers, mask, tube... I'm ready!

Don't forget a flashlight (rentable) for a night snorkel. Very easy and cool.

Bring a snorkeler over to the darkside. When you are poking about in 5fsw, offer them an octopus. All of a sudden they'll realize what a PITA that snorkel was and how easy this breathing underwater can be. (Watch that depth, now!)

It is easy to spend an hour plus each day visiting at CCV with the daily array of vendors who arrive to display their wares. It is more of a juried art show than anything else.

I've said it a hundred times before, but there really is precious little else to do on Roatan other than SCUBA Dive. Once you get the hang of Roatan's South Side delights (Go slowly, go close, stay shallow- look for the little stuff), you won't want to "not dive".

Otherwise? Canopy Zip Lines are taking off, horse riding, mangrove water taxi tours, go pester Flipper at AKR, the Children's Home, The Botanical Gardens, The Iguana Farm... that would be about it. Shopping? Maybe a day could be spent, cruise ship days before they arrive is the best, hit some Coxen Hole shops, maybe- maybe not.

Roatan is for divers... so far. Come, enjoy it for what it is... before it gets "modernized".

 

[Doc]

double post. Damned Bill Gates, anyway.

 

[laserdoc]

penny, Also going down for the first week to CCV with Dee and the gang. Have never been to CCV so we are looking forward to it. Bringing my girlfriend and her daughter. Jills daughter will just had gotten her c card,so I will have one newbie with me.

 

[pennypue]

penny, Also going down for the first week to CCV with Dee and the gang. Have never been to CCV so we are looking forward to it. Bringing my girlfriend and her daughter. Jills daughter will just had gotten her c card,so I will have one newbie with me.

Dave, how old it Jills daughter? I've got a 16 year old. She's not going to be with us, unfortunately. She'll still be in school. But I'd love to have her dive there with me. She was certified at 13 on Cozumel in '04 and does not like wetsuits!!! My visions of a homegrown dive buddy were dashed!!

Looking forward to meeting all three of you!

 

[laserdoc]

Penny,
Kelli is 25. Jill has only been certified for a year but I have taken her to St. Lucia in July ,Bonaire in Oct and to Panama city fla in may. She does fine. After Bonaire and 15 dives in a week she is hooked on night dives. Santa is bringing her a 14 watt dive light..
I dove nothing but a lycra skin in Bonaire all week. Took my 3mm suit but never used it. Will I be able to do the same here

 

[pennypue]

Well 25 is a whole lot more mature than 16!!!!

I have an 18wHID for cave diving, and wrecks, but I don't bring that with me to Roatan. I wore my 3mil all week last year and did just fine. And I usually get cold. The only time I found that I was cold was topside during a nice cool rain.

I'd really like to do Bonaire some time. My daughter would probably like it there a lot. She liked driving to the south and east sides of Cozumel.

 

[laserdoc]

The island itself is pretty blan,,,,a true desert island. Before diving came to that island in the 70's.There was nothing to do there,,,still nothing except to dive. Was there for the tale end of of the coral spawn,,,so that was cool. A guy in the group loaned Jill is Star-tek cave light for a night dive ,,so she was fine. The night before her light went out(a cheap one) and she sort of freaked.Lucky we were only in about 15 feet of water and had just started thew dive. So hopefully her new xmas present will do fine for her in ccv. Really looking forward to doing a night dives on the wreck off the front porch. Why don't you bring your cave light??? With all the lights we could light up the world Would be able to see those monsters coming at us.
In Bonaire we used the light she borrowed to feed the Tarpon. We found a smaller fish suspended out from us and would shine it on it and watch the Tarpon come in ,turn sideways and open its mouth and nail that smaller fish. They really followed the lights we had. The Tarpon came really close to us ,,like 6 feet. Alot of fun!!!

 

[Trixxie]

I wore my 3mil all week last year and did just fine. And I usually get cold. The only time I found that I was cold was topside during a nice cool rain.

So what is good to wear while diving in Roatan in May? Trilam, 3mm, skin, shorty? I wore a shorty while diving in Maui and in the Caymans but would be cool by the end of the dives. We will be diving Nitrox while at CCV and don't want to have to end the dive because I get cold.

 

[laserdoc]

So what is good to wear while diving in Roatan in May? Trilam, 3mm, skin, shorty? I wore a shorty while diving in Maui and in the Caymans but would be cool by the end of the dives. We will be doing Nitrox while at CCV and don't want to have to end the dive because I get cold.

I guess I would start with just a skin and then see if you get cold. I used only a skin the whole week in Bonaire but brought my 3mm with me just in case. My girlfriend started with a skin but near the end of the week she rented a shorty. I plan to do the same at ccv,,,,so we shall see.