{"id":94,"date":"2014-05-26T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/?p=94"},"modified":"2016-07-09T23:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T23:32:06","slug":"invasion-akr-the-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/roatan\/invasion-akr-the-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasion AKR The Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a fabulous week of diving with Anthoney&#8217;s Key Resort in Roatan, Honduras, I learned a few things for future dive vacations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t put OPV in separate bags from where they go into.<\/li>\n<li>Always check your camera before\/after a dive for leaks<\/li>\n<li>Always have charged batteries\/empty cards<\/li>\n<li>A small bottle of bug spray lasts about a week<\/li>\n<li>No Seeums leave nasty marks that turn straight into scabs and last a loooooong time<\/li>\n<li>Cram more into carryon and try to get everything into 1 checked bag<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t have milk in a third world country<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t fret about missing bags, in the end it doesn&#8217;t matter or greatly affect your total vacation (unless you&#8217;re backpacking or country hopping)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent 21:20 underwater blowing bubbles. Not a horrible way to spend 7 days (+2 days travelling) with 24 dives (3 night dives)<\/p>\n<p>And now onto something completely relatedly different.<\/p>\n<div class=\"grid_12\">\n<p>Pictures!!<\/p>\n<p>Some nice coral<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Banded Coral Cleaner Shrimp<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spotted Eel<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nassau Grouper<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>French Angelfish (looks like champagne bubbles)<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nurse Shark and Remora<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunset over the shore dive at AKR, we&#8217;re about to head out for a night dive as this group was coming back in<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lobster<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fan Coral<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-21.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Banded Butterfly fish<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sponge Bob! Sponge Coral<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four Eye Butterfly fish (notice they are always in pairs)<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-24.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coral head life<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indigo Hamlet (my favourite fish)<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hawksbill Turtle<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-27.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great Barracuda<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-28.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>King Crab hanging out upside-down<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-29.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trumpet Fish<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-30.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Queen Angelfish (notice the &#8216;crown&#8217; on the head)<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-31.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coral<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-32.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arrow Crab\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-37.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aguilla Shipwreck\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-39.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Garden Eel<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-42.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sharpnose Puffer<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-44.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>??<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-46.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More of the Aguilla Wreck<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-47.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Groupers<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-49.jpg\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-50.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barred Hamlet<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-56.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Squirrel Eye Rock Fish<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-57.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some kind of crab, two of them (the red)<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-59.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Green Moray Eel (note the 2 sets of teeth)<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-60.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Triggerfish<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-61.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stag horn Coral<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-62.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yellow Head Wrasse<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-63.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blue Tang<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-66.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Porcupine Puffer (he wasn&#8217;t very happy being spotted in the shallows)<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-67.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lion Fish\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/Diving\/20140526\/Roatan_Invasion_2014-69.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a fabulous week of diving with Anthoney&#8217;s Key Resort in Roatan, Honduras, I learned a few things for future[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bradharris.ca\/UnderwaterAdventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}