I'm sitting out on our little deck this morning in front of our room listening to the school kids playing stick ball one house over. I can hear the occassional wave crash & watch people walking down the path. Birds chirping. This place is really heavenly. Sipping on my coffee from Mayra's. Life couldn't get much better I don't think. After Geoff wakes up we are heading into Utila to get some money & food supplies for our Island adventure. We can only pull out $250 at a time here, which is 5,000 Lempiras. Sadly, they still get spent & we are almost out of money again. There's not an ATM on Jewel Cay so we're out of luck. We're going into Utila with Donald, who makes daily morning trips to Utila for the locals & ... read more

Up & at 'em early. Diving again this morning. Have to be ready on the dock by 730ish. Although we never leave until about 815-830. But that's ok. We're becoming very quick at assembling our gear. It's such good practice to have to put it all together every morning & switch tanks on the boat after the first dive. It helps the comfort level for sure. Although I wish I was a little stronger. The equiptment is heavy! Today we are fun diving only. We are now officially Advanced Open Water Divers! Woohoo!!! Today we are diving with Jason as our DM & our group is all AOW Divers, so he said we get to go deep on our first dive! Yippee! It's just us, M&L, & Kelly from Canada. Our first dive was at The ... read more

I still managed to wake up at 6 even though we aren't diving again until this afternoon. Although we were in bed by 10 pm. The sun sets at 5:30 & it gets dark quickly. And after an afternoon of diving it's easy to sleep. We had breakfast at Mayra's restaurant. Baleadas of course. It's just tough to beat a delicious breakfast for 75 cents. I want to learn how to make homemade flour tortillas. The morning we spent lounging on the dock, emailing, reading. Another stress free day in paradise. We got our dive equiptment together again & waited for our boat to arrive. Today we headed to Spotted Bay Dive site & our worked on our "peak performance buoyancy." This was so fun! We dove down to a sandy bottom & each swam through ... read more

This morning we got up & walked into town to buy a cooler for the rest of our trip. We've been lugging around food & drinks & have talked about a better way to carry things. So, we found ourselves a nice little Coleman (Geoff named him Gary) & we are set. Of course, we had to stop at the Baleada stand & get one for breakfast. Sooo yummy! I am hooked. Back at the hotel we made a plan with everyone else about our travel day. Peter shared his fav breakfast of Club Social crackers with peanut butter & bananas. Pretty tasty. We all packed up & headed into town to catch a cab to the highway for our bus to La Ceiba. After wheeling & dealing a bit, & turning the first cab driver ... read more

Oh the Honchos (roosters for those of you who haven't been following along). They never stop their doodling. Sadly, it's a little bit overcast & drizzly this morning. We are really looking forward to the sun. It's been awhile it seems. Breakfast on the restaurant deck overlooking the bay was really nice though. Working on our plans for the Bay Islands. Where to stay, where to dive, how to get there, etc, etc. It's so fun to plan the next steps. We don't usually have to plan this much but with the diving & the fact that the Islands are the most touristy place we will have been in Honduras, we have to actually make reservations! What an unusual concept. After breakfast we headed into town & walked along the beach. The beach goes on forever ... read more