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Utila Slideshow
Utila
Travel Blogs from Utila, Honduras
Utila Day 2
Up at 630am with very little sleep accomplished. I think I was pretty nervous about the dives and couldn't sleep. Walked out of the room pretty much and right onto the dive boat, set up my equipment and off we went. First dive was the deep dive. I had ...
Guerilla Utila
... on a boat before, and ran around taking thousands of photos, or sitting next to me, looking quite green with sea sickness. On Utila, I was able to leave my pack at Capt. Morganīs dive shop while I looked for affordable lodging. I found that at Altonīs ...
Utila Day 14
... realized that tomorrow I will be going to a new place for the first time in nearly two months since I re-entered Guatemala. Wow, nice! Most of my pictures and videos from Utila are finally up: ...
Goodbye Utila
Its been a while since i have updated this blog. Mainly because for the last 5 weeks i have been on Utila doing the Divemaster course. Well as of yesterday i finished and am so ready to hit the road. The course was good. I enjoyed the parts that improved ...
Utila Day 7
Up around 9, no diving today. Ran into Jo immediatly, we walked around, bought supplies and had breakfast and talked. Back at the hostel I got an email from dad telling me to figure out Robs travel situation and I had heard from Jo that the ferry still ...
Marooned on Utila
Wow...Im really sorry about not updating for so long. Im am on the island of Utila, one of the Bay islands off the coast of Honduras. It is a relatively small island wich is known for its scuba diving and backpacker community. I have been diving ...
Utila Day 11
The caye visit was a no go today. It was pouring all night long. So I just let the benedryl take its course and slept for 10 hours. Woke up feeling a bit better but still congested, and the pharmacy was closed. The weather got way better in the late ...
Utila Day 10
... with all the divemasters since they move so well through the water. We had a long surface interval where I learned a lot more about Utila then we went down right off the east coast of the island at Aquarium. It was my 24th dive and everything clicked. I ...
Utila, The Island
... of white and afrocarribean people (descended from slaves and pirates). They speak English (although the island is technically part of Honduras), and they speak it with a very cool Carribean accent. It actually sounds too stereotypical to be genuine. There ...
flashpacking
So, Utila - smallest of the 3 bay islands situated 20km into the Caribbean off Honduras part of the second largest barrier reef in the world and also one of the cheapest places in the world to learn to dive. On arriving off the ferry, we were bombarded ...
5 days, 4 towns, 3 countries
... Livingston and then to Honduras Thursday Guatemala/Honduras - La Ceiba I had planned to go to Tela and spend 2 days relaxing on the North Honduras coast but plans dont always work out and i ended up in La Ceiba in a grotty hotel for $10US after 2 boats, ...
Utila - Dock Party
The dock party was something. For 30L equivalent to $2.80 we had some bbq kingkish served with some pasta and green salad which was divine. The serving was abit small so I made my way back 4 times for more salad (wouldīve went for more but they had run ...
Tauchen mit Schildkroete und Octopus
... ebenfalls getschuttet. In einer Auswahl WM-teilnehmender Nationen mit Pavel Nedved und Dino Zoff gegen das Schokolade Team aus Honduras. Dieses bestand aus ex Piraten (Hautfarbe Milchschoko), ex Sklaven (Mokka) und Mestizos (Milch/Nuss). Erst haben uns ...
Utila Day 4
2012! I was thinking recently that the events of just this summer seem like half a lifetime ago. 2011 felt like a very long year! Anyway, woke up around 830am, hung around the hostel uhh lets say hydrating. Rob and I grabbed an early lunch at The King. ...
Utila Day 9
Woke up late, made breakfast with Raquel. Eggs, peppers, onion and oatmeal. Delicious. Went down to the dock to say goodbye to Jo. She is heading to Nicaragua then back to BC, won't see her again, so that was a sad one. Went to UV with Raquel, swam laps ...
Utila Day 8
... then grabbed my stuff from Underwater Vision and moved into a much nicer room. I have no idea how much longer I will be on Utila but I am really enjoying just snorkeling and swimming so I am definitely not feeling much urge to move on at the moment. In ...
Submersible Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Utila Island, The Bay Islands, Honduras - January 12 to present (February 14, 2009) The boat ride cost us around $30 each (expensive!!) and was about 45 minutes long. It was really overcast that day and it was pretty rolly. When we got ...
travelling 101
After an over night in la ceiba i caught boat to la ceiba at about 4 in the afternoon, i got talking to two irish lads who i hung out with for a week, we had some adventures... adventure 1 - After renting a golf buggy and being told not to go on sand ...
Sunjam
... boat later, I arrived on the idyllic island of Utila. This is one of the Bay Islands that lays on the Caribbean side of Honduras. So far it has not been possible for me to make any reservations in Central America because most hostels rely on walk ...
Whale Sharks!
January 31, 2009 Yesterday was a pretty crazy day! We woke up at 6:30am and headed down to the shop at 7:00am to start loading the boat for our 8 o'clock departure. We did a 2-tank dive at two different dive sites: Airport Caves and ...
Carribean dreams
... but Betsy did us proud. We decided to skip the Carribean side of Gutemala as a crucial bridge was down so made our way into Honduras via Copan and some more ruins {I think we are now ruined out though}. Simon is completing his open water ...
A long weekend on Jewel Cay, The Bay Islands
... we were out by 0630 and walked to one of the parks nearby, which in the Lonely Planet was supposed to be the best in Honduras. It wasn’t large, but it was planted well with palms and as it was owned by a banana company, there were railway carriages ...
Utila Day 1
... but ran into Jo from San Pedro and her friend and spent the rest of the evening with them, visiting various locations around Utila. Reunited with Stephanie and Lindsay who I travelled with in Mexico and Belize. Small community this one! Didn't get to ...
Scuba, Sun and a Suprise!
We spent 10 days diving on the Island of Utila, one of the Bay Islands in Honduras. We stayed at the dive shop which was like a mini resort with its own sea front, fake beach, bar and hammocks. We went to an awesome moon party on Bando Beach where they ...
Utila Day 6
... the morning and spend a night in San Pedro Sula before taking him to the airport. From there I want to hit Lake Yojoa in Honduras then head into El Salvador. In the late afternoon I did swimming sprints off the dock here then played cards with Rob and ...
Ferry to the Bay Islands
Choppy boat ride out to Utila, stazed for 3 dazs and then left because the diving was no good owing to the recent bad ...
Utila, island of divers
... Sunday and head to Utila. In the stranges coincidence that I have heard of yet, the ferry that leaves La Ceiba for Utila left... early! Early! in Honduras! And we were two minutes late, which meant that we had missed the ferry by five minutes. gah! ...
Utila
We just spent an amzing few days on a gorgeous little island called Utila. Its just off Honduras with beautiful white palm fringed beaches, turquoise clear water and lots of sun! I cant see why anyone would go who wasnt interested in diving mind ...
BLEEDING EAR
... WITH AN AMERICAN FAMILY THAT WAS QUITE A HOOT. HI LINDSEY. IM CURRENTLY ON AN ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF HONDURAS. WENT SNORKELLING YESTERDAY THAT WAS PRETTY UNEVENTFUL. WENT DIVING TODAY AND THAT GOT A LITTLE EXCITING. I USE ...
Utila Island: Last Chapter
... and drink the cheap beer. Rikki and I normally eat cheap Baleadas from across the street for dinner. Baleadas are Honduras' cheap cuisine - a flour tortilla with beans, cheese, egg, onions, and whatever else they throw in it. You ...