… I guess there was not enough blue in the background…

Now, those are the colors I was expecting. Never can tire of seeing the Caribbean Sea waters.

After the sunset, I went to the bar to get myself a glass of wine. I asked the young lady at the beach bar what red wine she might have. I don’t think she trusted my Spanish. Instead of telling me anything, she brought out a bottle.

Normally, I would just say – Ok, go ahead! But this bottle caught my eye immediately.

I asked her – “From Chile?”
She seemed a bit surprised. She said “yes”
“Casablanca Valley?” I pressed on.
She picked up the bottle, read up the label and was even more surprised.

At this point, she must have thought that I knew my red wines well.

Well, truth is – this is one more of the crazy serendipities that I seem to be often hit with.

Back in 2011 November, we had gone to Chile to explore that country. Juan, my friend of many years and the guide for that trip, on our way from Santiago to Valparaiso had taken us to two wineries – Emiliana and Indomita. The daughters had enjoyed Emiliana since they had alpacas and birds there. I remember Indomita since they had given us an impressive tour of the place. And the view from there on to Ruta 68 below with grapevines all over is still marked indelibly in my mind.

Incredibly enough, it was a bottle of Indomita wine from that winery that the lady gave me – here in a small island off the coast of Honduras!!!

You can almost see the straight strokes of colors emanating from the sun behind the clouds

Interestingly, if we went across the water in the direction of the setting sun from where we were, we would land up in where we were in Belize last year this time!

I am glad I caught this picture when I did because the sun quickly disappeared after this behind the clouds before going anywhere near the horizon line.

Water was warm. With the sun directly in front of us, we could not see the beautiful blue color as much (too much of direct shine from the sun). For that we will have to wait till tomorrow morning when the sun is on the other side of the island.

This place reminds us of India at every step. Hot and humid. Strangely, not much of wind which makes it feel really hot. But very rich flora. We can see many flowers that we grew up with – Geraniums, Gul Mohurs …

It was hot enough that the first thing we all did was to jump into the pool.

Roatan airport. Looks very much like the other island airports we have seen around the Caribbean Sea.

We had aligned to the runway and was dropping altitude very quickly, skimming over very clear waters of what I believe is the Flower Bay. And then I saw something very incongruous. See if you can notice it – there is a helicopter submerged in the water!!

From the position of the helicopter, it is clear that it did not crash there. What is it doing there? Remember a few months back, I had posted the picture of the submerged airplane off the coast of Jordan? The idea was to make it a diver’s spot there.

What could this be all about? All my searches in the internet has yielded nothing. Need to ask some locals here.