WAY OUT THERE

It started with a 27-hour boat ride from Guanaja, Honduras, to a blip about 160 miles to the east and roughly 50 miles off the Mosquito Coast — an 80-yard-long piece of sand with a few palms, a couple of outbuildings, stacked wooden lobster traps and some Caribbean pines

I rode out to Faraway Cayes aboard a 40-foot snapper boat that was loaded with food, fuel for the fishing skiff s, mattresses, an oven, a freezer, a generator and lots of miscellaneous supplies for the first official season of helicopter fishing in this remote, sometimes perilous area. I accompanied a small team of guides, a cook, a few assistants and the owner of the operation, Steve Brown, a Colorado guide who runs