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Trip report from diving with AKR in Roatan June 12th through the 20th.

We stay in a Key Superior cabin. The cabin had a great view. The best sunrises I have seen in years. Watched the sun rise every morning over the hills of Roatan. Cabins are clean, the water is safe to drink from the tap. Yes there was a few bugs mostly ants in the morning around the shower and toilet, but just one or two and just squish em and your good to go.

Diving there was good. Reefs are in great shape. I did see some damage to one reef from the earthquake in May. There was also another earthquake while I was diving. It was a 4.2 that was 15 miles off of Utila. It caused a really nasty surge for a minute but that was it. There was no damage around the islands from that quake. High light was doing two dive with my ten year old daughter. First dive she only went to 18 feet. There was a surge going, but it was her very first ocean dive. The second dive was great. She went to 40 feet, was so excited to see every thing down on the reef. She found a Juvenile Spotted Drum, knew the hand signal for it. She even saw a Eagle Ray towards the end of the dive. The dive master put some bait in the water after we got in and 4-6 Nassua Groupers, Mutton and Dog Tooth Snappers came around. The kids on the dive loved that.

To me AKR runs a good dive operation. They keep the boats in good shape, dive masters pay attention to the divers and are good at finding things to see. One of the divers on my boat had a minor flood on his camera and the Photo Shop at AKR was able to fix it. It saved my boat mate about 12k worth of camera equipment.

Critters seen was a pregnant Green Moray Eel, two pregant sea horses, several turtles. One turtle ( Hawksbill) didn't even mind when the dive master and I settled down on each side of him for pictures for a good 5 minutes. He just sat there eating away, paying us no mind.

My daughter did the Dolphin Camp there, it was a very worth while experience for her. Not only did she get to play with dolphins during the week but learned about their behaviors and conservation about all sea animals and creatures.