Welcome to Tyll’s Dive located in the heart of West End on Roatan, the Bay Islands, Honduras home of the world’s second largest barrier reef.Tyll’s Dive takes pride in offering scuba divers a small family atmosphere where you are not just any number or just another diver. We dive in small groups. When you dive with Tyll’s Dive you are part of the dive family.Tyll’s dive family is world wide.
Kristin Haynes has over the last months been a busybee here in West End. She has made a painting of nearly every diveshop, bar and restaurant by now. Postcards have been printed and the profit from the sales goes to the SolFoundation: www.solroatan.org You can see more if you visit www.kristinhaynes.blogspot.com
Marcos is back from Tegucigalpa. Carmen and Marquito have to stay over there. They have not done the operation yet. The doctors decided to try another treatment after they had to postpone the operation twice. If that does not work either they have to operate, but they have some hopes it might. The donated money has been deposited at the hospital and Marcos brought over a copy of the receipt. It goes towards the treatment, laboratory tests. Carmen and Marcos have been assured they will not have to come up with the whole amount again if there has be a surgery in the next month or two. Guess you can call they got a package deal.
Carmen , sweet Carmen, also send over a letter to thank everyone who has been and still is helping them economically. She also wrote a little note to explain Marquitos medical condition, but it contains medical terms which we need help with to translate and explain.
People Carmen and Marcos want to thank (and we at Tyll's too) so far: Ed and Mo, who got generous tip on the 8th of march at the Blue Marlin, because they told it would go to the little boy. Claus and Fran, who were visiting the island. Jacquie (also muchos gracias for helping make this happen), Conal, Chase, Michael, Capt. Alex, Ruthie, Jenny Myton, Jenny Blenny, Kathryn (RG), Gay (CCT), Nina, Erna, Wolfgang Gehring , Marty and David Sperow, Diane.
Besides that Marcos tip money and pay for looking after Moody Blues for Noelle, went into the pot as well.
There is a saying, just not sure its quite like this, but you will understand the meaning. Many small creeks makes a big river.
This is something new to us, to ask people for money. But its not for ourselves at least.
We are trying to collect money for Carmen (worked for Justus at the Purple Turtle) and Marcos (our boatcaptain for years now.) Their 8 months old son is having surgery on thursday. Most likely he is gonna have one kidney removed. The treatments so far has not helped and the kidney is very bad. Carmen has been in Tegucigalpa for over a month now. They only have the income from Marcos now. We and Justus have lend them money for the unsuccesful treatments. The baby is in hospital Maternidad Infantil in Tegucigalpa and before the surgery its common practice to make a deposit. In this case it's lempiras 11.000.
Its all on a very short notice, so we have not had much time to arrange anything. Jacquie, divemaster in training, has been very helpful with coming up with ideas, where I would have gotten stucked.
But people here have been great at chipping in. Many small amounts sums up in the end and we are positive to be able to deposit the amount at Banco Atlantida by wednesday.
This is the beautie in a small community, people do look after each other in times of need.
So these are the news. Molly, the dogfighther and Lowfat the Padi professional have been missing for over two weeks now. Where are they, where are their furry bodies? Understand diveshopcats have their jobs assigned to them, and they are missed. Our rhythm every morning has been thrown off. Molly and Lowfat have been, well they have characters as the cats they are. And now they are gone, abducted by aliens who wants to study diveshopcats...or they got killed. Who knows. Nothing left but their 8 kg bag of catfood. Dissapeared from the surface of the crust of this island.
It has been months since there has been any activity on this blog. There really hasn't been much to post. But now Christmas is over and everyone in West End (diveshops, restaurants and bars) had a busy week. Everyone is feeling things really will be better again on the island.
Cruiseship business is picking up. Not all cruisers want to stay in a big group, and thats where the small diveshops in West End come in. Who wants to dive in a group with 14-15 other divers. The marinelife will scatter away when they see all the bubbles and flaring arms and legs.
As to the weather, it has mostly been fine, but when we have a northern coming in we quick change from bikinis, boardshorts to warm clothes to keep warm and dry. And we can warm up and hang out with Ed at the Blue Marlin across the shop.
2010 can only be a much better year. Already with the diveshop staff and dmts the vipe is great. Yes cheers to good happy year.
In the ten years we have been here on Roatan, we have never seen any. Some wanna be greenflash, yes if your imagination plays along. But am sure it exsist, as much there is gold at the end of the rainbow. And that I believe, because you can never get there to check it out.
Team Belgium arrived after delays. Gerrit got his open water certification- congratulations. Stijn, Johan and Maarten got a few fundives while they were here. The girls tried snorkeling. Here they are just coming back.
