Henry Morgan Resort All-Inclusive West Bay

... to do the advanced. The sweetener was I could have my room for free until I left and I could get an extra 4 fun dives, this meant that I had negotiated for 8 fun dives and free accommodation for 2 weeks, not bad for a day’s work.

That Friday night, I went out on the town, well to the little village that constitutes as a town on the island. As I arrived at the coolest bar in Utila, Treetanic I got accosted by two guys ...

... and stored our equipment, then headed in for the last part of our course – the Final Exam. We both passed with flying colours, Caroline scoring 100 per cent.




We were now official certified Open Water Divers. And we have the certificate to prove it.

That night we celebrated with the rest of the Alton’s crew at a Bando party – with the biggest pot of fish stew we had ever seen, slow cooked all day by local ...

... to find Kalin. I found her back on the beach again, covered in sandfly bites. They are so bad here that her back looks like it's polka dotted! Since I hadn't eaten much, I grabbed another Baleado (Beef, Beans and Avocado) and then we went to the dive shop to sort out our tabs and say goodbye to everyone. Now we are using a bit of Internet time since we paid and unlimited for a week price and then going for dinner in half an hour. Two other girls in our room have reserved a booth on ...

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 Labyrinth. The first dive was at Airport Caves which is a big wall with a couple of caves and swim throughs. We spent our surface interval lying in the sun on the boat as it drove to our next dive site. Labyrinth ...

... unsurprised to see us back so soon. Edward found his wallet quickly but it was too late to head back as we would miss the boat. The next boat was at 3pm which unfortunately meant that we would be missing the better part of the day that would have been better spent being on the island but at least we would get there. And this time we made quite sure that we had more money than we needed to have a good time there. The boat was much smaller than I expected ...

... we made our way over to the Utila Dive Center, where the services are first-class... well worth the extra money, compared to the other dive shops. I signed up for the Open Water course, while Mark signed up for his Advanced class. The place is definitely full of mosquitos... I´ve already gone through half my bottle of bug spray, still having been bitten over a dozen times. On the otherhand, Mark has only been bitten twice ...

Two busses and a 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 ins. For Utila I therefor forgot to make a reservation, which I found out was desperately needed especially with the festival coming. Three hours of ...

... became. On Sunday we did our two "fun dives" which are dives in which our instructor does not make us do any skills testing and treats us like we are certified divers. We got on the morning boat (7:30 am) and made it in the water just in time to see a school of about 30 dolphins jumping in and out of the water! We all threw on our masks, snorkels, and fins and jumped in to try to get an underwater glimpse. I swam hard but I couldn't keep up! My group rented an ...

... surrounding by Garifunas and Bares to chill out after the diving, and even the small cays when you can camp in solitude but always with the voracious mosquitoes. My favourite place in land is a bar called Treetanic placed in the Jade Seahorse is a place who the owner was building for the last 15 years and is like a little Gaudi park but with rum and beers for one dollar, the place is kind of little museum and you can stay in some rooms if you want to. Really worthy for a stop.

... seem to have the same sense of humour as us (dont know whether that is fortunate or not...heehee) and we have been having so much fun as a little family unit! We stayed in La Ceiba for a night and the next morning took a ride on the back of a ute (yes...on the highway...very safe...we were packed in between our bags and couldnt move an inch. Got out with the sorest backsides though) and then caught an actual ferry ...