Signage Laws in Roatan

Signage laws and statutes are a common thing in the USA and things are not as different as you would think down here in Roatan.

One interesting rule in Roatan is that all signs must incorporate an environmental saying on the sign itself. So when you look at a sign for a resort it will say the resort name and info and then have an environmental tag line like "Keep Roatan Clean" or "Keep Roatan Beautiful" or something about the reef.

Well here at Roatan Life we recently underwent a change to our logo and therefore had to make new signs for the offices etc. When we sent the info to our local sign guy we sent him a proof of the logo from our art guy in Colorado.

Norman the sign guy made a perfect hand painted copy of the logo and as you can read was very detail oriented and copied exactly the format Phil Weir gave him. So now the new sign says "Something about the Reef goes here".

We all got a good laugh out of it and I hope you do too.

Jardinero Santos

Allow me to introduce Santos our Gardner. He is an very good Gardner and pretty handy in general. The property we live on is on the side of the hill and Santos keeps the grounds in beautiful shape.

We are fortunate and have many fruit trees. Santos is holding some freshly chopped Plantains in the picture to the left.

Plantains are bananas that are generally used for cooking, as contrasted with the soft, sweet banana varieties (which are sometimes called dessert bananas). Plantains tend to be firmer and lower in sugar content than dessert bananas and are commonly used when green or underripe and therefore starchy. Plantains are a staple food in the tropical regions of the world, treated in much the same way as potatoes and with a similar neutral flavour and texture when unripe. They are grown as far north as Florida, the Caribbean, the Canary Islands, Madeira, Egypt, and southern Japan or Taiwan and as far south as KwaZulu-Natal and southern Brazil. The largest exporter of plantains to the United States is Colombia. It is assumed that the Portuguese Franciscan friars were responsible for the introduction of plantains to the Caribbean islands and other parts of the Americas. The Spaniards, who saw a similarity to the plane tree that grows in Spain, gave the plantain its Spanish name, platano. (Wikipedia 2006)