It lives in grandmothers, fishermen, old maps, and caves.
A small collection, made slowly. Each piece began as a story we researched.
Pirates, forts, island families and the island table: the Bay Islands' story, from the archive.
An explorer comes looking for pirate treasure. Mae shows him the real treasure of Roatan.
A lantern, a hidden cave, and a treasure left by the island's first people.
An island word, defined. Island green on a soft sand tee.
Loved it! Hannah's keeping hers here!
A reader's family
Long before podcasts, island storyteller Morgan Wagner sat down in front of a tape recorder and told the legends of Roatan. His voice, along with stories we have recorded since, now lives on the Caribbean Honduras podcast, so you can hear the islands the way they once sounded.
Inside the Mitchell-Hedges cave, along a gastronomic route with island cooks, to the Blue Hole in East End and Port Royal National Park.
In production · Coming 2027Follow the makingCaves, wrecks and forgotten forts, with the people who still remember where they are.
The history of the Bay Islands was never kept in one place. It was scattered across porches and fishing boats, folded into old maps, hidden in caves. For more than fifteen years we have gathered it, piece by piece, and turned it into books, films and recordings that carry the islands wherever their people go.
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First published in 2019, the cookbook is being reborn: more than 85 recipes, standardised by senior gastronomy students at UNITEC, with nutritional values and the cultural history behind every dish. Join the list and you'll be the first to hold a copy.
Island legends, stories from the archive, and first word of new books, episodes and the cookbook.