We had to switch our clocks back an hour and even with the late night we were up at 5:00. Nikki went to get coffee and I got ready she came back to the room about 5:40 and we went to breakfast. After breakfast we went back to the room and grabbed binoculars and watched our approach to Roatan. We then went down to the shore excursion desk and booked a shore excursion for Gumbalimba Park. We sat on the balcony while the ship docked and just watched the beautiful scenery. We then got ready and disembarked the ship around 10:00 and took the chair lift over to Mahogany Bay beach where we lounged for about an hour sipping on strawberry daiquiris. We took the chair lift back to the main shopping are at port and got in line for our main shore excursion. We got on our bus and the seats on the bus are not made for someone over 5’10”. Let alone an overweight man who is 6’3”. I was sitting in my seat and one of a group of three older ladies from Boston was hanging off her seat over the 6” isle gap and sitting partially on my lap while complaining loudly to her blind friend that I was the one taking all the room. I look over and there is about 8 inches between her and her friend. We couldn’t get to our destination fast enough and it was about a 45-50 minute bus ride with this lady that looked her make up artist was Tami Faye Baker. As soon as the bus stopped I stood up which threw her off my lap and we got off the bus. Our tour guide was Javier and he was great. He would say things like this is the only place in the world where you can find this bug, tree or animal and then before he could take a breath one of the three Boston ladies would ask where else in the world those were located. Or he would say we have to wait our turn for the group in front of us to clear so that they can come out the way they came and all three Boston ladies would cut off the previous groups exit and complain loudly about how the previous group was for not getting out of their way. This went on for several hours. The tour was informative thanks to Javier if you would listen to him, and we got to see lots of native trees including cinnamon, almond and many other species. We got to see an insect collection that was huge and fascinating. And we got to see iguanas, macaws and monkeys in the wild. We even got to convince the capuchin monkeys to come out of the trees for pictures with the guests by bribing them with treats. We finished the 4 hour tour and Javier had to load the bus with his group but the 3 ladies from Boston were too busy heading in 3 opposite directions and being unable to follow directions took Javier about 30 minutes to get the group together to load on a bus. Then one of the ladies walked right in front of bus trying to leave when it wasn’t our turn to be loaded. Javier said it the first day he was working as a tour guide and the worst experience of his life. Everyone from our group felt bad for him. We did meet a nice couple from Wisconsin who were on the other Princess Cruise in port at the same time and went on the excursion with us. We hung out with Tom and Shelly for most of the 4 hour tour. After the tour we were hungry because we hadn’t eaten since breakfast and walked for several hours. We went to the room to drop off our packed day bag and I went down to reserve a seat at O’Malley’s while Nikki did something with her hair after wearing a hat all day. We watched the Whiskey Martyrs and ate dinner and called it an early night as neither of us had the energy to stay up late. We went to bed early and woke up the next morning late for us.
