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Roatan is sure developing fast
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Jul. 10th, 2007 | 02:00 pm
Hello,
I am always surprised to see development going on so quickly here. I guess that we can't keep our little paradise secret long now. Jacob and I on Monday drove out to the east end to Marble hill farms to pick up our new order of jam, jelly & mustards. We are selling them in the gift shop. They are fabulous and made right here on the island. They use ingredients like hibiscus flowers, guava, many fruit combinations (my favorite is pineapple mango). As we were driving out past French Harbor there are so many new developments going in. I haven't been past there in months. Wow, these are large planned communities with their own shopping centers, restaurants, yacht parking ect. These are not hotels but high end condos and single homes. There is also a large 5-star Westin resort and spa going in out past Parrot tree. They have already put in the road, cisterns and some pillions. Their web sight says they will be open Jan 09. I'm sure it will be nice and very fancy however; I would still rather be right here where you can stroll down to the best part of West bay beach (the best on the island) than way out there.
The 2 new bungalows are starting to take shape. The walls are going up and they are going to be bigger than the others. They will each have 2 queen beds, a kitchenette and indoor table and chairs and hugh fron porches. The first one should be ready mid August. August is already starting to fill up so hurry if you are planning to come down and let me know. We do have a noise ordinance that Milos and the guys have agreed to: if there is any guest on the property then they can't have construction noise going on. It will be very quiet here and then when everyone leaves for the beach or diving, the guys start building like crazy and it will be noisy again. Then people start to come back from the beach and it's nice and quiet again. It is kind like living in 2 different places for us that work here.
Last night, Monday we went for 2for1 pizza at IllPomador. It is still as good as ever. We are trying to try every pizza on the menu.
We have all been waiting for months for our mangos on the big mango tree to ripen. It has been loaded with green ones. Well, they are now ripening and everyone is coming to pick them. They are the large sweet kind and even guests are standing on the railings and picking them to eat and even hitting them with a stick. We had a fireman from Portland come with his family of 10 and climbed all over the tree to get the ripe ones down for breakfast. It was awesome. Now on Saturdays we are getting our avocados from our tree by the breakfast palapa for the baleada's. We are still getting enough bananas from our trees for the banana pancakes, all we can eat and everyone who comes by can take some (it is good to eat before diving also so you don't get leg cramps). Even Coco is getting lots as he loves them.
Thats all for now.
Celeste
I am always surprised to see development going on so quickly here. I guess that we can't keep our little paradise secret long now. Jacob and I on Monday drove out to the east end to Marble hill farms to pick up our new order of jam, jelly & mustards. We are selling them in the gift shop. They are fabulous and made right here on the island. They use ingredients like hibiscus flowers, guava, many fruit combinations (my favorite is pineapple mango). As we were driving out past French Harbor there are so many new developments going in. I haven't been past there in months. Wow, these are large planned communities with their own shopping centers, restaurants, yacht parking ect. These are not hotels but high end condos and single homes. There is also a large 5-star Westin resort and spa going in out past Parrot tree. They have already put in the road, cisterns and some pillions. Their web sight says they will be open Jan 09. I'm sure it will be nice and very fancy however; I would still rather be right here where you can stroll down to the best part of West bay beach (the best on the island) than way out there.
The 2 new bungalows are starting to take shape. The walls are going up and they are going to be bigger than the others. They will each have 2 queen beds, a kitchenette and indoor table and chairs and hugh fron porches. The first one should be ready mid August. August is already starting to fill up so hurry if you are planning to come down and let me know. We do have a noise ordinance that Milos and the guys have agreed to: if there is any guest on the property then they can't have construction noise going on. It will be very quiet here and then when everyone leaves for the beach or diving, the guys start building like crazy and it will be noisy again. Then people start to come back from the beach and it's nice and quiet again. It is kind like living in 2 different places for us that work here.
Last night, Monday we went for 2for1 pizza at IllPomador. It is still as good as ever. We are trying to try every pizza on the menu.
We have all been waiting for months for our mangos on the big mango tree to ripen. It has been loaded with green ones. Well, they are now ripening and everyone is coming to pick them. They are the large sweet kind and even guests are standing on the railings and picking them to eat and even hitting them with a stick. We had a fireman from Portland come with his family of 10 and climbed all over the tree to get the ripe ones down for breakfast. It was awesome. Now on Saturdays we are getting our avocados from our tree by the breakfast palapa for the baleada's. We are still getting enough bananas from our trees for the banana pancakes, all we can eat and everyone who comes by can take some (it is good to eat before diving also so you don't get leg cramps). Even Coco is getting lots as he loves them.
Thats all for now.
Celeste