Last Days of Utila

In the last days of Utila...
Ian and went scuba diving together and had an amazing time. There was a big group of us, about 10, including divemasters and we went to the Northside of the island. The first site was called, CJ's Dropoff, and it was a wall that went down about 1000 feet. We only went down to 70 feet. The coral and fish were beautiful. We saw a baracuda in the distance but the highlight was the turtle. A Hawksbill Turtle was hanging out on the wall, munching away at I don't know what. Normally turtles are shy and swim away as soon as you spot them, but this one let us hang out with it for 10 mins. We took turns getting in pretty close and just watched him. So amazing! The other dive site was pretty cool, we stayed shallow cause that's where the cool fish were. We got to see garden eels which looked like grass sticking out of the sand, but were little eels that went back into their hole if you got too close. After all the diving, we went for lunch on Pigeon Caye, which was a little island just off the coast of Utila covered in a fishing village.

New Years was quite the party. We went to a couple of different bars and hung out with all our new scuba friends. The first bar was Tree Tanic, which is a cross between a tree house and a mosaic garden. It had wooden walkways and cool art everywhere. Our scuba instructos work there and handed out the drinks. That closed around 1pm so we headed to another bar. Got back to the hotel very late or very early and spent all of the next day in bed. An awesome time.

On Jan 2nd, we took a flight from Utila to La Ceiba, a town on the mainland of Honduras. It was the smallest plane I've ever been in, though Ian's been in plenty. It was very exciting, the plane was full with 8 including the pilot. From La Ceiba, we took a bus to Copan and after 12 hours of travel, ended up in a cheap but very nice hotel with hot water and cable TV in a beautiful quite town. Paradise!