The Bay Islands lie just off the coast of Honduras and are made up of six main islands and many cays. Spanish is the offical language, although many Bay Islanders are bilingual and speak good english. The Lempira is the offical currency, but US dollars are also accepted.

For non divers, the shored based attractions include (Roatan) butterfly garden, sports fishing, tropical treasure bird gardens, historic village, mangrove tour, horse riding and the Iguana farm. For the scuba divers, the biggest attraction is the spectacular wall diving on the outer wall (which is part of the barrier reef that starts in Belize). Wall diving is not the only diving option as shallower sites are available on the leeward sites of the reef wall, along with some wrecks are also available to dive.

Roatan is the largest of the Bay islands and offers mostly wall diving, tunnels and caves. It also has the wreck of the Aquila in 95 feet of water. Typical marine life includes black groupers, peacock flounders, clinging crabs, arrow crabs, golden tailed morays, and orange icing sponges.

Guanaja is the second largest of the Bay islands and its fringing reef has been declared a marine reserve. The wrecks of the Vetigo, Don Enrigue and the Ruthie C (a shrimp boat in 45 feet of water) add variety to the reef and wall diving on offer. Also worth seeing is the spawning of groupers at Caldera del Diablo in the full moons of (January and Febuary).

Utila is the third of the three main islands and lies east of Roatan. Utila boasts wall and reef diving as well as Turtle Harbour marine reserve which is a protected turtle nesting site.

Cayos Cochinos or the Hog Islands, consisting of 2 main islands and 13 small cays, are a protected marine reserve 10 miles offshore from the Honduras coast. These islands support species not seen elsewhere, colonies of purple tunicates, finger print cyphoma as well as the very rare rough black batfish and the quillfin blenny. These islands can be visited on scheduled dive trips from both Roatan and Utila.