Roatan Island Life

Are you looking for that extra special place? Do you want a second home in the Caribbean for family vacations or a place to retire? Maybe a long or short-term investment in real estate, or perhaps commercial business is more your style, Roatan is worth consideration.

Roatan is an emerging Island, as prices soar in other Caribbean communities development is turning to the Bay Islands. Truly, one of the Caribbean's best-kept secret and only 2 hours by air from Houston or Miami. You will feel at home with the friendly locals and English is the main language.

Days are relaxed and enjoyable with the constant ocean breeze. If you can imagine, setting on your deck overlooking the gleaming white sand and pristine waters of the Caribbean. Enjoying your favorite beverage and pondering what you would like your cook to prepare for dinner, broiled red snapper, fresh lobster, jumbo shrimp or maybe one of the native island dishes (known only to your cook). You may be surprised that you can afford a housekeeper and gardener too.

The island's friendly, "laid back" atmosphere is an ideal setting for relaxing and enjoying the many fine restaurants, bars, and other attractions such as Marble Hills Farms, Carambola Gardens, the Iguana Farm, the Butterfly Park, Tropical Treasures, where you can see hundreds of exotic birds, and the Institute for Marine Sciences at Anthony's Key.

On Roatan, your options are endless.

When you're finished relaxing, there's plenty to do: Shell collecting on the beach or take a scenic hike, for a more adventurous experience, you can arrange a boating excursion to one of the area's truly captivating keys such as Cayos Cochinos. Horseback riding, scuba diving and snorkeling, charter fishing trips, sailing, day hikes, sea kayaking and island tours. The area also boasts "island style", a butterfly park, museum, carambola botanical gardens and massage therapy. Other exciting island activities include island tours by boat or car, fishing excursions, videotaped dolphin encounters, an iguana farm, a bird park and much, much more! Plans are underway for the first Island golf course!! And if you're not worn out by the end of the day, you can always head into West End for dinner and drinks at a variety of spots. Sound like you're kind of vacation or life?

One of the finest points about Roatan is the extensive fringing reef system that offers the most spectacular diving and snorkeling in the Western Caribbean. The Bay Islands are a continuation of the second largest reef system in the world, the Great Western Barrier Reef. Experience truly unlimited diving on lush coral reefs and precipitous walls encrusted with gorgonians and sea fans. Few spots in the world can equal the Bay Islands easily accessible and unlimited beach diving. Surrounded by warm Caribbean waters, this hilly island is as picturesque as it is unspoiled. With its soft white beaches, warm azure waters and swaying palms, you'll feel as if you've walked straight into a postcard!

If you have ever desired to own your own place in the sun on a Caribbean island, but always found it too expensive? You just might be interested in Roatan, and all it has to offer. While still very affordable today, it won't always be this way.

In recent years, the number of North Americans and Europeans living in the Bay Islands, especially on Roatan, has grown dramatically. They have brought many changes, some good and some not so good. Once pristine beaches and verdant hillsides are now sites for homes, restaurants, resorts, and other developments
The warm climate, usually in the '80s, is like the warm greeting you will receive from the friendly inhabitants.

The people of Roatan, population of about 50,000, have ancestral origins from eight separate cultures -- English, Spanish, Payan Indians, Garifuna, Afro-Antillean, Anglo-Antillean, Spanish Honduran, and North American.

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