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La Ceiba, Honduras
... for furniture and appliances, but didnīt have much luck. Particularly with furniture, we went to a secondhand place that supposedly had the best prices, but it was all pretty junky. After that, we met up with several of our new friends and drove along the river out of town. On a scenic scale of one to ten, it was a twelve. The views were really incredible. The river runs through a valley, and the mountains around it are covered in green. One of ...
Cangrejal River Rafting, Pico Bonito National Park
... is mostly class 2 and 3 rapids, but there is one class four which I am able to photograph as our rafts come through by hiking onto the shore below the rapid. There are also a couple of places where we can climb up the rocks and jump into the water. My favorite is a rapid that we can go down with just our life-jackets. The power of the water is amazing as we zoom through the rocks and literally get pulled underneath for a while. I ...
Utila Day 13
Went to the private beach, paid $3 and snorkeled for a couple hours off the shore there. The clarity was excellent but I was not able to spot too many creatures today. Saw the biggest barracuda yet but didn't get a good picture, took some pictures and a ...
First week in Honduras
... adventure so I will give it to you in a nutshell, well I'll try! Our travel to get here went smoothly but felt very long and we didn't sleep in almost 40 hours but could not complain because that was totally our choice when we decided to go into New York at midnight on the 23rd when our flight got into Newark, NJ. On the plane someone told us that the airport we were landing in was actually the closest airport to downtown NY so of course ...
Sitting on The Hard and Waiting and Waiting
... missing back packers anymore.
We did kidnap 2 back packers just before leaving
though.
Our new crew members are Alesha and Jarryd, a couple of
young Aussie travellers. They had never been sailing or at least not
out to sea, but they have been fantastic.
Leaving Rio Dulce was like leaving the
Hotel California, but we finally made the break and got to Texan Bay
just up the river from ...