Hi Sandy, do you think you would have a better experience later in the year? I’m thinking of going there in 2027 so your answer might help me decide. Thanks.

Estuve en Roatan hace 30 años, y temo volver y llorar, como me sucedio en cozumel. (I was in Roatán 30 years ago, and I’m afraid to go back and cry, just as happened to me in Cozumel.)

I wish you well with your treatment, Lisa, and hope you make it to Wakatobi! I was in a dive shop once buying sunscreen, and they had a poster advertising a dive trip to Wakatobi. I thought—I wonder if snorkeling would be good there? That was the star of our overseas snorkeling adventures! We did end up going to Wakatobi and it is fabulous. They treat you very well there! You fly from Bali, so you can have a vacation there afterwards—heavenly! I sincerely hope you get to go.

The food truck lot was super commercial. I didn’t really indulge. The food selection was super plain and no local food which I thought was odd. Why not give the locals a chance to make money as well?

Oh thanks for the update! I’ve never been to that site! I will write it down for future visits, thanks!

Yes, absolutely great ladder and the crew is very good about helping folks with mobility issues get in and out of the water safely and easily.

Hi Janet, so sorry you had a disappointing trip. Hope you get to go back at another time.

Thank you Sue. We missed Lee Stocking but did catch the Aquarium. You are very right about the boats there, but they were clustered around one small area so we swam quickly through them!

Thank you Amy! We did go to several grottos including Thunderball, but the best by far was Sea Aquarium off O’Brien Cay.

I lived in the Florida Keys for 41 years, 23 of those years on the Atlantic Ocean. Although I’ve never been to Hawaii, and I’ve heard it’s beautiful and in the continental United States you can’t get much better than the Florida Keys. Not everything is bleached out, but I do find the snorkeling tourists on what the locals call the cattle boats that disgorge about 50 people onto the reefs, don’t know how to snorkel. If you’re near them you’re liable to get your face mask kicked off or else witness them standing on the corals or breaking pieces off. It aggravates me that the cattle boat captain or first mate doesn’t give them instructions on how to treat the coral.

I have never been to Indonesia, but I have heard of Wakatobi Resort and have wanted to go there many times. I am 79 years old now and laying in a bed getting outpatient radiation for lung cancer and I have decided that I’m going to start spending my money and I guess Wakatobi will be one of my first choices.

However, the reef I really would’ve liked to have seen was Kingman‘s Reef but for that, I think you gotta have a doctorate in marine biology and get special permission to go there, not to mention the mileage involved out in the middle of the ocean.

I did snorkel in Roatan and was truly amazed to see blue coral, which I had never seen before. This was in 2023 and the reef was not bleached out, and it was beautiful, colorful and pretty pristine.

I too find the rock wall on Cozumel to be a lot of fun with multiple sightings of rays, squid, lionfish, morays. Roatan had its moments too.

I would put in a plug for the Maldives. I have been to Indonesia twice but like the Maldives as well or even better (is that possible?) as I have seen so many different and wonderful creatures from Manta Rays to Whale Sharks to octopuses floating by the house reefs. We have been surprised by a school of 30 sharks who swam by before we had time to react. There are areas of dead coral but this is balanced by the wide variety of live coral and larger sea life.