Utila, Honduras

After Guatemala we headed straight to Utila, one of the Bay Islands of Honduras. However this wasn't as easy as it sounds. It took us an extra day before we made it to the island due to a mix up between airport and port. We had to brave San Pedro Sula, the murder capital of the world, and force our way onto a full bus. But we finally made it!

Once on the island the big decision was to choose which dive center we were going to go with. We ended up with Parrots Dive Center (which we found out later is the party dive center!). We signed up for the Open Water course and started that afternoon! After 3.5 days of diving and theory we aced our final exam and can now dive to 18m around the world! The diving was amazing! The photos below don't really capture it. We saw huge rays, a giant lobster, pretty cool fish and heaps of coral. Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to do our Advanced Open Water so we had to be satisfied with our two fun dives. We weren't allowed to take the gopro down with us during our course so all the photos are from our second fun dive. 

Utila is a pretty small island, the town is basically just one street. The culture there is very interesting as they have English heritage. This means as we walked around turn we could hear locals talking with each other in Jamaican accents, which we enjoyed very much.

To get around the Island people use a mixture of 4-wheelers, golf carts and scooters. On a Sunday they are all parked outside the local church. 

These were our digs during our time on the island. Pretty nice for $10 a night each. 

Alex chillin out in a bar over the water

Out the back of Parrots Dive Center 

The Parrots at Parrots. They can sing Happy Birthday and shout Hola! at people

We had a trip to a little "Deserted Island" for an afternoon with the center to relax and snorkel. 

We had to walk from the Boat to the Island

Island Life

There were heaps of Pelicans flying around the island

Snorkeling around the Island we saw heaps more cool stuff.  

Like this adorable puffer fish!

And this huge ray!

The view on the way home from the Island

We left the Island on the 6:20 am ferry during the pouring rain, caught a bus to San Pedro Sula and had to spend two nights there because the bus we wanted to take was booked out. With it being the murder capital of the world we didn't do a lot, just hung out at a nice mall and watched The Hobbit. Then there was a 4:00 am wake up to catch the bus to Nicaragua and after a confusing border crossing and a bus swap due to mechanical issues (of course) we made it into Managua, Nicaragua.

And that was our very quick visit to Honduras over.