Hotel Morgan Big Corn Island

... from them in the space of a day, they dont do insurance out here so there were many people that were in a whole lot of trouble. It turned out the Hurricane was called Ida and had hit Little Corn first before heading to the mainland and Honduras. It was only a Force 1 so I cant imagine what a force 5 is like..<br><br>We spent the whole morning helping locals clear their gardens, the hardest days labour i've done for a while now and a bit of a shock to the system but ...

... to withdraw all funds from their bank accounts. The ruse goes as follows.<br><br>Scenario 1: A couple of tourists/ gringos are on a bus heading to either Managua, Granada or the handicraft markets at Masaya, they meet a well dressed local who on asking where they are going, states that they too are going there and they should share a taxi. The innocent couple agree, after all this person seems to be educated, well dressed and friendly, what could go wrong ...

... pink balloons! We signed up for a $10 snorkel trip to a shallow dive site called White Holes. It was about 9m deep and was great for us to practice our free diving. We saw loads of nurse sharks, some giant parrot fish, trigger fish, barracuda, and lots of other marine life. It was a great trip. Much better than the dive we went on. That afternoon we took it easy, reading in hammocks and swimming in the water. For dinner we splurged ...

... other side of the island, just to see. We found a great one run by a friendly guy from Austin, TX, where Tori and Brigette are from! He offered an Austin discount, making the air-conditioned, beautiful and clean rooms only $20. We ran back to see if Joseph and Brigette now wanted to stay. When we got back we discovered that Brigette had fallen ill and so it was very fortunate that we found a room here. I don't think another bumpy boat ride would've ...

... We saw sharks, turtles, barracudas, lots of bright coloured fish and a propellor. Life on the islands was expensive and food variety was limited so we survived on a carbohydrate diet of coconut bread and pasta. Lazing in the hammocks and swimming in the turquoise water was just what we wanted though. We even squeezed in a rum and coke night with some old acquaintances from Guatemala and Ometepe and some new ones from the ferry.

... island, it was pouring, and we flagged down a taxi to take us back to the room for a nap. It rained the next two mornings for a couple hours, but always got sunny and nice by about 10. It was dry after that. The locals were saying that the reason the storms came is because somebody died and hadn't been properly laid to rest yet. Beach time, walks, and one snorkel trip filled up the days. We snorkeled ...

... it was a bed and a shower in the morning. I wanted to take money out from the ATM down the street, as I was down to about $20, but the hotel operator lady made a throat slitting gesture when I told her I was going to go. Welcome to Managua I guess! Not a place to hang out for long. I was up by 4:30 this morning, and took a taxi to the airport hoping to get on a flight to the Corn Islands, about 1.5 hours away from Managua, off the Caribbean coast ...

... all the country they play here is 20 years old or more tends to support that. Hard to tell, so we'll just leave up to a fun, quirky curiosity.) Food here is uninspired, unless you want to eat fried chicken all the time. The exceptions are Ike's big breakfasts (fruit, toast and heaping servings of eggs with gallo pinto), Kevin's bbq wings (served up with macaroni salad and okra in tomato sauce... wow, it's been forever since ...

... them, based on paying in cash and staying at least 4 days. We've definitely let ourselves slip a little in regards to comfort, budgets, etc., but I think that the heat and the strike finally wore us down and we needed a vacation from our travels, and Little Corn Island was the perfect place for that. I spent my first 4 days doing my Rescue Diver training with Dive Little Corn. It was very hard work, and I finished with a split lip, bruised knees and a ...

... I left fingernail imprints on the armrests.. From there we took a boat to Little Corn island, which is where we were spending the next number of days. That boat ride was actually a lot of fun, as it caught air off every third wave. Once we arrived, and received directions on how to get to our recommended accomodations (by a guy we met in Granada), we tredged down a path through a jungle for about 20 minutes and onto a beautiful white sandy beach where there were ...