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March went so fast...we must have had a good time then?


Yes, we sure had a good time. The air and the water is slowly heating up. This last week of march is hot-humid and no breeze or rain. I know people smile and shake their heads by this. But we DO feel its getting from warm to warmer and then to hot and sticky.
Kimberly is back, she never skips a year coming down to Roatan. Scott joined her this year and did his open water and just loves it here.
Recently Kimberly put together her famous all yearly dinnerparty. And as usual we all had eaten too much but had a great sunday on the patio.

Jacquie is back too for a visit. Remember her? Our divemaster in training 2009 into 2010 and best storyteller ever. Okay, Tyll is the best story teller ever, but Jacquie is right behind him I think.


I wish one of them would have been to the West End community meetings about the facelift of West End.
How they would have been able to recount the meetings and the outcome. I am actually not sure what the out come is and I don't think anyone really knows at this point. And I went to 2 of the meetings to hear it out and been following discussionsboards on the yahoo groups and facebook. And already there is a lot of confusion about who want what done and who is paying for it all in the end.

So its either nothing is happening or we one day will wake up to lots of machinery going down the road to begin tearing everything up to give West End a "facelift".

But other than that, its been a great month with fantastic people coming down for a week or two or just for the day on a cruisship.

To all who visited Roatan and us, hope to see you again someday for more diving and fun.

Team Tyll's

Seahorse

This is the cutest little video of a free swimming seahorse in the shallow water in Half Moon Bay.
It was filmed a couple of years ago by one of our divemasters in training. It was either Jeppe, Matthias or Yves.
I have not posted it earlier as I thought I had lost it on one of my by now many broken laptops.

But today was cleaning up day on the USB sticks, and there it was.

And since Amanda is actually finding seahorses, pipehorses and all sorts of things lately its a perfect time to share this video clip.

What 3 days of heavy rainfalls can do...

Today is a beautiful sunny day, like most days here are. But 2 weeks ago the picture looked different.
3 days of constantly downpour. Not just showers, more like someone emptying gigantic barrels of water.
Even the locals would shake their heads and would muse "I have never seen anything like this".

The diving had to be cancelled, the sea turned into a brown soup as far you could see out beyond the reef.
Within days things were back to normal.
The sea cleared, the road got fixed, the red car is driving again, the t-shirt shop did not collapse, Nova is back in business with an extended beach.
People whose boats sank got them rescued. Houses and businesses have dried up without having had too much damage to talk about.

As soon the rain stopped, West End came back to live as a bear after been hibernating.

Will let the pics talk for themselves.

January 2011 Happy New Year

January 2011

The new year started up a bit hectic. Amanda in England, Mo got busy having students all the time,and we having to call in freelance divemasters and on top of that train a new boatcaptain, who by the way is doing a great job and working hard, but has a lot to learn is still understandable.
Samuel seems a good kid, but so was Marcos in many ways, but he had his flaws and decided to quit his job. We are on good terms and still care about Carmen and Marquito.
The pic above is of the very nice danish family that brought us danish yummi stuff.

Amanda is back working now. Such a relief. Things are all of a sudden back to normal.
Yves, our divemaster from 2008 came back on vacation. What a surprise, and how good to have him and Katja around for the little while they will be on the island before continuing their travels.

Dory and Tracy returned with their husbandsGary and Ken. Gary we know for long and Ken finished his open water course. Then next surprise, Gayle and Peter turns up. Its been a fantastic start of the new year with so many of our loyal and by now good friends coming back and friends of friends arriving too.

Jenny comes in to hang out on the boat and snorkel and to be our eyes and gives feed back. So wonderful to have her around here and there again.

Donkey the kitten have had to stay home most days lately. She is still so playful, that we are afraid she will get in the way.


Well 2011 started up busy, hopefully it will stay on with comftable busy and fantastic people in a steady flow. But it is certainly good to see West End alive again after a long long time.

Uncertain opportunities and decisions are laying ahead of us, whether they will get real, we will have to be patient and wait and see.

We wish everybody a Happy New Year and good health and whatever good things you can wish for.

December to remember

West End is still pretty slow. Nice for the people who likes to dive in small groups and get spoiled.
We have a new addition to the diveshop, Donkey. Donkey is a kitten somebody stragetically left at Sundowners, and ended up at ours to replace the emptiness of the still missing Molly and Lowfat.

She will never be a Lowfat, keeper of the weightbelts and she will never be Molly the dogfighter. She will be Donkey and will develope her own values for being a diveshop cat. She is cute and adorable, but are not all kittens like that?

West End is putting on its coat of Christmas and seems to wake up again as the businesses that were closed down are open again. Fairylights every where in all colours, fake Christmastrees, one is hanging upside down at the Blue Marlin. Something different.

Something never changes: The road gets grated and then it begins to rain...

For the last week Amanda and her divers had turtle sighntings on every dive, also they saw eels and a blackspotted nudibranch.

We had some of our "old" divers back. Overwhelming to have so many of them back at the same time. It was a wonderful week with a lot of catching up and vino sin queso party at the shop once again thanks to Sandra (James Bond diver, queen of fun and fighting fires when she is not travelling).
Lovely to see Marie Josee and meet Ray, and of all so strange to see Dory here without Gary the captain.
But those two we will see soon.

Things can be tight and difficult at times, but having all these people out there and popping in when you need them most is the most beautiful thing in our life.
I will use Sandras good bye words:
We love us, which means we are all there and means all of us. We love us!

Thank you all for diving with Tyll's Dive and becoming our friends.

Happy holidays and all the best wishes and good health for us all for 2011.

Happy thoughts in gray october days

Dive princesses and dive princes

What makes you a dive princess/prince?

1) you arrive on Roatan and think you will give it a try
2) you give it a try and kind of love it
3)You dive more and actually love it
4) whats that fish whats that little fellow poking out of the coral
5) now you really want to know what you are seeing and why they do what
6) sorry, you are hooked now
7) you don't wanna leave right now so you miss the ferry
8) bad weather, lets stay another day
9) I cant find my wallet
10) the Galaxy ferry at 7 am is too early anyway
11) Lets have a baleada since we missed the 2 pm ferry
12) We can have a dive since we are not going on the morning ferry
13) Group picture, we are really leaving. Okay. (Don't leave)
14) They left.....
15) But we know they left as diveprincesses, nothing less.
16) They went to explore the world, but know where they come from.
17) One fine day they will return.
18) I think 2 particular princesses know this story very well.
19) Is it then why we love what we do?
20) Left for your comment
21) Did not forget the diveprincess who brought the crocs and did the walks
22) We are all dive princesses or dive princes but there is only one queen and she might very well arrive in a few weeks
23) There is the Turtlekid
24) There is the seahorse finder
25) There is the paprazzi photograher
26) There is the finder of seaslugs
27) There is the seaspider girl
28) There is the little boy who one week is facinated by sharks next week by eagle rays (dive prince potential)
29) There is a diveshop family back at the shop who will make coffee and enjoy listenening to all the above findings
30)There is just enough stuff out there for everyone to enjoy. Keep blowing bubbles:-)
It's a beautiful day.

early ocober thoughts

Dive princesses and dive princes

What makes you a dive princess/prince?

1) you arrive on Roatan and think you will give it a try
2) you give it a try and kind of love it
3)You dive more and actually love it
4) whats that fish whats that little fellow poking out of the coral
5) now you really want to know what you are seeing and why they do what
6) sorry, you are hooked now
7) you don't wanna leave right now so you miss the ferry
8) bad weather, lets stay another day
9) I cant find my wallet
10) the Galaxy ferry at 7 am is too early anyway
11) Lets have a baleada since we missed the 2 pm ferry
12) We can have a dive since we are not going on the morning ferry
13) Group picture, we are really leaving. Okay. (Don't leave)
14) They left.....
15) But we know they left as diveprincesses, nothing less.
16) They went to explore the world, but know where they come from.
17) One fine day they will return.
18) I think 2 particular princesses know this story very well.
19) Is it then why we love what we do?
20) Left for your comment
21) Did not forget the diveprincess who brought the crocs and did the walks
22) We are all dive princesses or dive princes but there is only one queen and she might very well arrive in a few weeks
23) There is the Turtlekid
24) There is the seahorse finder
25) There is the paprazzi photograher
26) There is the seaslug lover
27) There is the seaspider girl
28) There is the little boy who one week is facinated by sharks next by eagle rays
29) There is a diveshop family back at the shop who will make coffee and enjoy listenening to all the above findings
30)There is just enough stuff out there for everyone to enjoy. Keep blowing bubbles:-)
(this could also apply to a dive prince)