What a great day, the sun is shining and the sea is calm again. Not a better time to start rebuilding the dock. Ready for the new season just around the corner. Those of you looking for an alternative vacation destination due to the unfortunate event's Wilma brought upon us, drop us a line here at Luna Beach and we would be glad to answer any questions you have on our fantastic resort and dive center.
Hope to see yah soon.
Fingers crossed our webcam should be up in the next week, so you can see the dock go up day by day..

Here where’re open, as usual…..
Wednesday night and Thursday saw us take some minor damage especially along the waters edge. There is no structural damage to any of they houses or main resort buildings. A few fallen tree’s…. they did not take any thing else out apart from themselves.
The clean up began yesterday during the worst of the storm and now as the water line is beginning to recede and the waves are calming a little, the work of relocating the sand and repairing drains, the odd roof tile and other minor jobs around the resort can continue.
The dive shop was untouched but the relocation of our dock to the beach car park caused a bit of a problem yesterday during the storm. We all worked hard to retrieve large pieces of the dock, and the rest of the debris from the water as it was washed up on the beach.
Although most of our famous dock is no longer there, we look forward to a new and improved one very shortly. This will NOT how ever STOP US FROM DIVING once the ocean has calmed down enough for us to take the boats out. Roatan is expecting winds of up to 20 mph until Monday, hopefully diving by Tuesday. So once again, when the water is calmer we will be straight back in for some cool diving around Roatan.
For those of you coming in the near future, NO Worries, everything is fine and Luna Beach awaits your arrival. So we look forward seeing you all and we are even more excited about taking you all diving, as by then we would have been out of the water for over a week..
For those of you that are on line checking out an alternative Resort in the Caribbean due to an unfortunate cancellation due to Wilma. I hope you choose our Resort for your relaxation or a week of diving.
See you soon,
Luna Beach Staff and Dive Team.
For any questions regarding the diving contact us directly at…… diveshop@lunabeachresort.com

Roatan was really lucky.

Last weekend the winds began to pick up for the on coming event of a tropical storm due in on Wednesday the 19th October that we all were expecting. That’s not what we got!
Wednesday came and the weather was pretty bad, large waves, lots of rain and strong winds. This we saw on the internet and on the weather channel should have been the worst of it, with minor damage to the dock and every where else the same on Roatan. But late that afternoon the winds began to build some more, taking us over night up to the edge of the eye which by this time had grown in size to hundreds of mile across. Roatan was lucky in this respect as I guess we only sustained around 40 to 50 MPH winds. As the West End and West Bay areas are protected by the reef just off of the shore this took the brunt of the wave force. Which saved this stretch of coast line, but if we had taken the full force of Wilma. There would not be much left of the north coastal area including us as everything is located on the beach, as many of you already know.
Yesterday the 20th October saw most of the West End loose parts of the road and dock areas. Some damage to Restaurants on the water and debris scattering the road, mostly water damage to the building along the coast due to the high water levels, that started to recede this morning.
West End is not closed, with all shops, restaurants and accommodation open as normal. Diving will probably be back to normal when the ocean calms down enough to take the boats out over the reef. The wind has dropped a lot today but the waves will continue to come in over the reef for a couple more days, due to continuing wind that is forecast.
This will be very interesting to us the dive community, to see what, if any damage the reef sustained. After Mitch broke up El Aguila in 1998 will be interesting to se what happened this time as the word on the street, is that the storm this time was a lot worse this time.
If you are planning to come to Roatan, this should not change your arrangements as everything will be back to normal by next week. As we are talking only about West End, it would be a good idea to contact your resort. To check your reservations over the next week.