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Trip leaders: Catherine Gobron and Joe Seitz. Joe’s partner Vanessa Serotta will be joining us as well as a 3rd adult. Joe, Vanessa, and I all participated in last year’s North Star trip to Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Dates: Wednesday, March 11 to Friday, March 20.

We’ll be flying out of Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday morning. Change planes in Miami, change again in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and then on to Roatan, Honduras. We’ll land in Roatan about 7 pm their time.

We are working with The Roatan Marine Park. Here’s a link to the Roatan Marine Park

This is their mission: To facilitate enforcement of Honduran environmental protection laws, provide infrastructure to reduce impacts of human activities on the marine environment, educate to create a sense of environmental responsibility among local communities, and conduct research to inform local decision makers on appropriate action to protect the marine environment from human impacts.

James and others at the Marine Park will be spending time with us in several capacities: As teachers; teaching us about the reef, its value, and the dangers it faces
As leaders; directing and assigning our work at the park and
As ambassadors; keeping us informed about where to go and what to do in Roatan

Accommodations: We’ll be staying at Posada Arco Iris. It looks to be a very nice facility right on the water of Half Moon Bay, walking distance to the marine park. Here’s a link

Scuba Training: We will be doing our scuba training and certification with Westfield Water Sports on the weekend of January 24. We'll be doing the PADI fast track program over 3 straight days. When we get to Roatan we'll do our 4 more open water dives to complete our certification. Coconut Tree Divers will be helping us with this as well as taking us out on recreational dives on 2 other days.

Note: Vanessa will not be scuba diving. Instead she will be holding down the land end of things while the rest of us are in the water. If any of the travelers are unable to dive for some reason, they can hang out and work with Vanessa.

Another note: every diver will need their own set of mask, snorkel, and fins. All the other gear will be provided.