P.S. Denis and Roxanne, I am VERY STOKED about the change in dates to be earlier in the year for 2014 for many reasons.
1. For the past 3 years that I have attended the Invasions, I have had to miss out on an annual long weekend motorcycle ride that my friends organize called the Summer Solstice that occurs, you guessed it, over the summer solstice and which has always coincided with the Invasion. Finally, in 2014 I won't have to choose between these two events - I can attend both!!!
2. I live in Vancouver, BC where we don't get that many months over very nice/sunny/warm weather. When you plan an Invasion during June/July, that's PEAK summer season here for me and eats up some of my rare sunny days where it sure does rain a lot - this also eats into my motorcycle time.
3. Again, because I live so far away - way up north in BC Canada, if I travel far away for a vacation, the flights are typically quite expensive. So I need to book to be away for two weeks instead of one to maximize on that expensive airfare. Glad I won't be gone for two weeks of my "summer" now so that I can enjoy the weekends (non-working time) of that summer and be actually away for the Invasion during some of our rainy months. yeeee hawwwww!!!
4. Back to diving - April/May is low vis season here in our local waters with the plankton blooming, so heck... if the vis sucks here, I might as well be a BLUE WATER PRINCESS IN ROATAN!!!!
I am very excited over how 2014 is shaping up to look.