M J Harper

M J ( Matt ) Harper has lived in the Bay Islands for 35 years arriving here as a young man having grew up in South Africa and finishing his education in England. He is an Electrical Engineer by profession having been involved in the development of the power infrastructure on the island of Roatan since the early 1990's and most recently was extremely proud to be part of the engineering and operations team that built the subsea line that provided power to the small island of St.Helene ( where he first lived and was married upon arriving to the Islands ) . Matt is very proud of the fact that he can do almost anything that the native islanders can do having been taught by them when he first arrived and was initiated. Having been instrumental in starting the game of Rugby in Honduras , he coached his Roatan team , 'Pirates RFC' as well as the national team in their first ever international matches. Matt was Her Majesty's Honorary Consul to the Bay Islands for 15 years and shares many of his own experiences in his stories. He has always been a voracious reader partial to the works of Joseph Conrad , Ernest Hemingway , James Hamilton Patterson , James Joyce and Guy de Maupassant and has always written but never published anything until his first book , ' A Handful of Seashells ' ( February 2022 ) and is currently working on his second book which is an account of British history in the Bay Islands and the Moskitia.