Dive Review of Clark's Cay/Cabanas on Clark's Cay in
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Clark's Cay/Cabanas on Clark's Cay: "One week on Clark's Cay", Sep, 2023, by Joel Horie, UT, US ( Sr. Contributor 24 reports with 18 Helpful votes). Report 12575 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Our stayed included first class/premium seats on the Galaxy Wave ferry. An hour before departure is plenty of time to arrive. Staff will take you checked bags at the curb and give you bag tags. Hold onto these, as you’ll need them on arrive at Guanaja. The terminal is roomy and air-conditioned, but there is outdoor seating as well. Small basic snack bar. They checked our tickets as we boarded. First class is upstairs; most seats facing foward, and some foursomes with tables. They came by with complementary soft drinks and snacks. The regular seating on the main deck looked okay, just all seats and no tables. I little less space between seats. There was a snack bar with snacks and beverages for purchase. Restroom/head on each deck. The Ferry is a catamaran hull and at 25 to 29 mph, the ride was about 1 1/2 hours. Seas were just a 1 to 2’ swell and we had a pleasant ride. Scenery wise, Roatan will be on your left side on the outbound trip and on the right on the return. We stayed Saturday to Saturday. The Afternoon ferry to Guanaja departed a 4pm and the return ferry to Roatan departed Guanaja at 8 am. This matched up well with the normal US arriving and departing flights at RTB. Arrived at the municipal dock on the little island town of Bonnaca. The boat for Dunbar Rock and Clark’s Cay were there to meet the ferry. They collected the baggage ticket stubs, then lined up all the bags for the guests to confirm, before loading them on a separate boat. Our luggage was in our room when we arrived at Clark’s Cay. Sign in a welcome briefing in The Casita. The Casita has a full kitchen, dining tables and sofas. It has coffee from 530 am and snacks throughout the day. Meals are normally at the covered bar area, by the pool. Food was very good and you get to choose when and what to eat on a personal menu(filled out, at the meal prior). If you are vegetarian or keto, for example, you’ll have slightly different menu options. Drinks were included and only the top shelf alcohol had an extra charge of $2 or $5. There were only 5 total guests, during our stay and the regular choices seems to satisfy everyone. Oral, the bartender, was very personable. He had tasty mocktails for us as we got of the boat after the last dive, each day. He also led the Bonnaca town tour on Tuesday. He kayaks early each morning (530am?), and is glad to take you on a tour around the adjacent cays. We had sand flies, but they seemed much less than at Anthony’s key or Coco View. Never saw a Mosquito. Jesse and Kennet traded off as Captain and DM all week. They are a very enthusiastic about pointing out creatures. Whether its above or below the water, they take requests vey well and want you to have and enjoyable time. If you want more or less help, let them know. Our boat was a small group of 5 divers. All, experienced senior divers. One needed to remove their tank before climbing the ladder and it was no problem. One freshwater barrel for cameras and one for rinsing masks. One fresh water shower and a basic pump to flush head. During our week, visibility was usually 60-80 feet. A few sites is dropped to 40’. Water temps were mid 80sF. Winds were very light, out of the east, with a few rain showers at night. Normal day is two morning dives, then return to the resort for lunch. The single afternoon dive was at 2 pm. Hard coral conditions seemed the usual, but soft corals and sea fans were much healthier and prevalent. Fish quantities seemed average, but we plenty of small stuff. Pipefish on most dives. Seahorses, a remarkable number of decorator crabs, If you’re not doing photography, bring a magnifier. The DM’s spear and kill any lion fish they find. We saw some, but not that many. They do feed them to nurse sharks, but at only two specific sites on the Northside. The nurse sharks may come around on those sites and offer some great photo ops if you are lucky. They didn’t feed them to any Morays. Jade Trader is a nice wreck dive. It’s on it’s side and 110’ at the bottom and in the 80’s if you stay on top. Nice sponges, silver sides in the holds, a few Tarpon, and a big midnight parrotfish. The Pinnacle dive site had nice black coral. Tuesday was picnic day. We went around the east end for two drift dives at Black Rock Canyon and Blue Leak. We had a nice shore lunch, then a third dive at Eel’s Garden.
Websites	Clark's Cay Cabanas on Clark's Cay
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Belize, Caymans, Socal, Bonaire, Roatan, Cabo Pulmo, Cozumel, Caicos
Closest Airport	RTB	Getting There	Flew Delta ATL-RTB, then Galaxy Wave ferry from Roatan to Guanaja. Ferry tickets included with Clark's Cay stay.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	84-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	4-80 Ft/ 1-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	about an hour dive time.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Rinse barrel on boat. No camera room, but room had a desk area for camera work. Casita had large tables available, that could be used for editing.

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Dive Review of Clark's Cay/Cabanas on Clark's Cay in Honduras

Clark's Cay/Cabanas on Clark's Cay: "One week on Clark's Cay", Sep, 2023,

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Dive Review of Clark's Cay/Cabanas on Clark's Cay in
Honduras