Roatan pictured in Newsweek Feb 18 2008

[Doc]

Latin America's Islas Bonitas on page 61 of NewsWeek Feb 18 2008

The listing for Honduras says, "A diver's mecca, the Bay Islands lie beside the world's second largest barrier reef. Stay in the Villas at Palmetto Bay Plantation (from $135 a night) amid tropical gardens.

The only picture in the entire article is of CoCoView.

 

[Bay Island Diver]

Sounds like the sort of lazy reporting you see more and more nowadays. Just stick in a stock photo of any caribbean Island seems to be the standard procedure. At least this one is actually Roatan, unlike the Felix reporting!

 

[Doc]

At least this one is actually Roatan, unlike the Felix reporting!

They had to go some to find a room as high as that, too.

 

[montychandler]

And I thought the worlds second largest barrier reef was in Central America off the coast of Belize.. Guess I should read newsweek and lay off the National Geographic channel..

 

[Doc]

Geographically it is the same reef, and it has always been referred to that way. I was amazed when I heard that, too.