Anyone for Scuba?/Hasta Luego

For Bennos surfing pleasure we made a stop in El Salvador. Unfortunately Rich was ket out of the waves due to a rib injury. Due to the fact there was nothing else much to do there besides eat delicious seafood we kept it moving into Honduras to enter the world of scuba. Immediately before we even officially entered the border we were taken by the Honduran ladies beauty and friendliness. Our painfully long border crossing was made much less painful by the girls training and working there. For such a small country every day you see a large numbers of pretty girls. A good ratio indeed. Unfortunately there were not so many on the island of Roatan where we did our diving as it is the most touristy spot in Honduras. We had much difficulty deciding which of the two main islands to choose, the cheap and small one Utila which is known as more of a backpacker destination or Roatan the bigger and supposedly better island. In the end we went with Roatan because the diving is meant to be better. Utila would have had more backpackers to hang out with but which was the better choice? We will never know.

The island was pretty quiet due to the low season and recent hurricances. So we managed to score a sweet deal on a kick ass hotel room to relax in after diving. I was very pleased with our diving school and instructor. We had a funny German lady who knew her stuff but wasnt too serious. By the end of the first day we had done our first dive. Its a really weird sensation breathing under water, one that definately takes a bit of time to get used to. Once you become comfortable with it its good fun. Floating around underwater feels a bit like being in zero gravity on the moon. The coral landscapes on this reef were definately just as alien. By the fourth day we weer all pretty comfortable divers and we did a kick ass dive through a deep channel with lots of "swim throughs" and a huge reef swarming with big ass fish like groupers. Good stuff. The nightlife wasnt much to write home about but after a big day of diving in our awesome beds we slept like rocks.

After returning to land we backtracked to a small coastal town called Tela where we parted ways. Rich & Ben heading down further south to Nicaragua and I back north through Guatemala to Mexico city for my flight on October 5th. It was a great 3 weeks or so, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks to the boys for letting me tag along and for all the driving you did. Good luck with the rest of your trips and hopefully we can do it up again in South America somewhere. Respect.