I rolled over at 5:30am to get up and Matt and Justin were already awake. We all slowly packed our bags to catch the 6:20am ferry off of Utila. I woke James up but he decided this morning that he wasn't coming with us. It was a little surprising but he had hinted at it earlier in the trip. He will stay and travel with Morris I think. I think we will see him again in Nicaragua so we will keep in touch online. The rest of us said our goodbyes and headed to the ferry. The regular tickets were sold out so we had to go first class which was 2 dollars more expensive. Not too bad because we got good seats and TVs. It was a super rough boat ride back and when we ... read more

Well this entry is going to be pretty short as you will know from the previous one. I awoke at around 10 to see all my roomates asleep along with Morris, our Irish friend, sleeping on Jeff's bed. Jeff was in the spare bed in the room asleep as well. The funny story of the morning was Morris and Jeff. It started at the bar around 4am when Morris decided to go for a swim off the bar's dock. He gave Jeff his keys to his apartment along with his other valuables then jumped in. Jeff being drunk puttered off leaving Morris with nothing. So for then next two and a half hours he searched for Jeff, not finding him so not able to go to his apartment. He came to our room at 6:30 in ... read more

It was an early morning with a 7:00am wake up. I got up feeling refreshed then headed for breakfast with James and Morris. The others grabbed random meals and started reading their advanced text. After some pancakes, we headed back to the dock where we lazed about. Matt, Jeff, and Justin jumped on the 1:30pm dive boat and headed out. Again the morning boat saw the whale sharks :/; it seems every boat we are not on. They did their bouyancy and fish knowledge dives which were interesting. In their bouyancy test they swam through hoops and raced along the bottom without fins. Matt won the race but they all were thankful for the course because it will help them with air control. James and I along with 5 friends had a very stressful day laying ... read more

After a long sleep we were all up by 8am and it looks like Justin has been passed the sickness Jeff and I had. James has recovered and will start his course again tomorrow I think. The morning dive boat got back without seeing the sharks. The rest of us debated doing our advanced but decided against it as it was another 270 usd. We spent the day laying on the dock in the sun. It was very hot and we decided to organize our route for after Utila. James wants to head to Roatan, another Honduran island while the rest of us are fairly undecided. I would like to head to El Salvador so this may be a splitting point in our trips. We will be on Utila until the 2nd of January but from ... read more

There is another pure blue sky as I wake up at 7:30am and head down for breakfast. A dive boat is leaving so our group will go on the noon boat. Time to just relax and swim in the sun. James is still sick so again he will miss out. The morning was spent on the dock laying in the sun and swimming with some friends. At 11 we start getting our gear and loading the dive boat. There are only 8 of us on this boat and as we leave another dive master tells Phil (our dive master) that there are whale sharks at a point. So scratch our earlier plans, we are going looking for them. Now we are Super excited because they were spotted on the morning dive and we are heading out. ... read more