ROATAN – La Ceiba – San Pedro – El Salvador – Miami – Los Angelos – Auckland – SYDNEY

ROATAN – La Ceiba – San Pedro – El Salvador – Miami – Los Angelos – Auckland – SYDNEY ………….. 6 different planes , 32 hours in 2 days.
I finally arrived in Sydney. Only missed one flight and only one plane was waiting for me while I was running through the security check into the plane as the last passenger - with the shoes in my hand, my belt around my neck and sweaty all over. Thank god. Finally sleeping.
I woke up by heavy turbulence over the great Pacific Ocean. I was praying to arrive safe. Gosh I hate flying more and more.

Well, here I am , back in the “REAL” life.
A life with shoes on my feet, 24/7 electricity + hot water , rules , traffic jams and where toilet paper belongs into the toilets.
Overwhelmed by the variety of food I discovered myself starring at the cheese section for half hour with eyeballs like a cat – following a tennis ball..
Millions of products were trying to confuse me. And believe me, they did!

How easy was Island life, just slurping bar feet over the warm sandy street to one of the 3 small fruit trucks in front of the beach, pick a few of the fresh fruits and veggies, a few more steps to Woody´s Supermarket ( if it is open ) where you are lucky if you find some chicken breast, choose one of the 3 different cheese species , grab a 30 litre water gallon – 50 m back to the house on the beach, picking up the fallen mangos from the huge mango tree in the garden and in the end - there was a food party somewhere anyway.
Either the fresh catched tuna to make some sushi or marco´s famous burritos or or or..
ANYWAY.

But hey, life doesn’t suck over here. I got used to the real life quite fast and enjoy the winter sun with the blue sky and nearly 20° every day. Seems like fake.

Nearly every day I walk along the beach . I am addicted to the ocean. What would life be without it…? So empty, quite, dry and boring. I love the sound of the crashing waves and the feeling while the water is taking the sand underneath your feet’s and the silence and beauty underneath the surface.

Surfers are riding the waves, swimmers are lapping and joggers are running like armies along the ocean.
Feels good to be back!

Awesome flat with very nice flatmates makes life even easier. Yeap, I love my life. ;)

I luckily came in the right season for the humpback whales who are crossing east Australia to go up north to the Great Barrier Reef for mating and giving birth before they go back south to the Antarctic waters for krill. These charismatic large animals are impressive and fascinating for me. It is such a shame that there were nearly extinct here in the 70´s, there were only 100 left. Today, thank the Whale protecting in Australia, there are about 8000 humpback whales travelling along the coast. ( Pssssssssst, I shouldnt talk to loud - Japan is arround the corner :) ) How beautiful they are!!!

Previously on Roatan....the overthrown President, cerfews and floating policemans.

Iit has been crazy in my last Roatan weeks. Every day things happen, good or bad, happy or sad. Or funny. Start with funny... In the whole time I have been here, 2 small planes crashed - full with cocain and Colombian Pilots. They found thousands of kilos of cocaine, and one policeman floating between Roatan and Utila – in a huge rubbish bin. Apparently the Boat sank on the way to get the cocaine ( we all know who the biggest dealers are – the Government and the FBI !! ) .

Anyway I found it quite funny but the fact that there is so much drugs going on is terrifying. All the thausends of kilos of cocaine the police found – were destroyed. Yeah for sure.. Probably the first time that it was snowing in the Caribic.

Also a friend of us died – no I don’t mean Michael Jackson ( but I am sorry about that too, I am sure the birth-rate will raise rapidly :) )
I mean a diver who dived with us a long time. He died back home in Switzerland – got a heartattack during diving. Only 35 years old.
That makes you think even more.
I have so many plans but how much more time do I have??
The time of earning money is a totally waste – I just want to spend money while seeing the world!

Then the day came when Honduras lost his president. He got overthrown by the army cause of several reasons and he whisked away to Costa Rica. In the same moment Venezuela’s president Chavez positioned troups on the boarder to Honduras – ready to support him.
It´s quite a big deal for the people in Honduras, for us the live just went on – as usual.
Didn’t take long when they invented curfews.
The last time I had a cerfew when I was 14 ( or so.. ) and even then I broke it. ( rules are there to brake it , right? ) So even the 18:30 o´ clock curfews couldn’t stop us from partying.
For sure, my last week on Roatan and we have bloody curfews!!

Finally the biggest news : I became a divemaster! After weeks of work ( well diving every day hey ) partying ( I need a detox ) hang overs ( ohhhh jeah... ) and lots of fun. It was an awesome time, I loved it a lot. I will never forget it and wish I could do it again. I learned a lot and the Coconut Tree Team is awesome and very professional.
My mentor Rags made me having a spontaneous speech on the deck in front of at least 40 divers after everybody congratulated me. It was great.

I also survived my snorkel test, which means they put at least 1 liter of booze into your snorkel and you have to swallow it all… I couln´t finish these massive fluids but finally I am a REAL Divemaster! We had a nice Hippy party in our apartment full with people
( who watched my and Dimitri´s Snorkeltest - they must have loved the part when the fluids came trough my nose ... :) ) and lots of fun.

The last week I was just fundiving, amazing dives, gosh I will miss that so much!!

TEXAS - INCREDIBLE

I will miss that place a lot.
I will miss the warm ocean, the hot air, the beautiful beaches, the endless party´s, the rum, safety stops during sunset, the typico breakfast, the sharks @ Waihuka, the small wooden apartment and most of all – the people.

I won´t miss: THE BLOODY SANDFLIES!

My friend Tati invited me for another , last, shark dive – my last last last dive on Roatan.

I can´t belive this chapter is over OVER.....
For me, Life goes on, in the next chapter – just in another place in paradise - Australia!
Love ya all guys!

Waihuka, Shark Dive, Roatan

I couldn't wait to see my favorite underwater animal - SHARK. Reef sharks , lots of them.
I went with a couple of friends and we had such a great time watching them and swimming with them. I love sharks. They are so beautiful.

And I love Bubbles, small ones and big ones. :))