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December 7th 2006 by Tess
A kickass SCUBA group
Going left to right: on top is Lars (Sweden), Julie (UK, divemaster), Me!, George (Guatemala, the best instructor), Faith (Utila, a local and my scuba buddy), and on bottom is Erwin (Holland, my roomm... [more]
hasta luego,
Tess
This blog is a work in progress, so I'm going to write more later, but I thought in the meantime you might enjoy these pictures!
AAAAAAH! Time keeps passing and Iīm behind once again in my blog. I donīt think I will really write much for this one, sorry. Utila was great and I am now a certified scuba diver, yeah!!!! Some how 10 days passed and I was still on the island (the longest I think I have stayed anywhere)
Heading out on the boat for our first open water dive
All of these pictures from the dive are from Erwin because he was smart enough to bring his camera along, and nice enough to share them with me-- gracias!
Final preparation before going down
You can kind of see me in the middle concentrating really hard trying to walk over to the edge of the boat with all of my gear and my fins on-- it's not easy.
It's all good
George is a great guy and an awesome scuba instructor... I had a lot of fun in his class
Look at that form-- Celestino I give you a 9.5 on that one
Also look at the color of the water-- it's spectacular!
Me and Faith are in the water and ready to go
The diving and water conditions around Utila are really nice
Now these are my pictures
Here we are going through Belizean customs on our boat heading from Placencia to Honduras. There was a lot of waiting around on that journey, and nothing was happening too fast
Another boat ride
I met 5 other people on the boat from Placencia to Honduras who were headed to Utila so we all traveled together as a big group out there... we spent one night on the main land in La Ceiba and then ca... [more]
Make way!!!
I was taking a stroll down the street in Utila and then suddenly the pigs started coming for me and I had to jump out of the way. They created quite a traffic jam and I thought it was pretty funny to... [more]
The main street of Utila
The main part of town is not that big, and really just has one main steet, so I walk up and down it all the time.
The dive shop pier
Faith and I had a lot of fun running and jumping off the top whenever we finished our dives
My favorite internet spot
It wasn't too expensive and I could sit there with the ocean breeze blowing in my hair. I thought you might like to see where I was sitting while I was typing this-- so I just took this picture.
Hanging out on the porch
I stayed at an awesome hotel with lots of really nice people and we would often sit around and chill on our porch... especially when it was pouring rain outside.
The rain is out of control!!!
The beginning of the week was nice, but recently the rain has been so intense that you can't really do anything (which is why my blog is finally updated). It falls in sheets so thick within minutes ... [more]
Our tiny kitchen
Every night we cook up dinner in the little kitchen at our hotel. It's a welcome change from eating out all the time, and the porch provides a nice environment for sharing a meal together.
Chillin out at night
There was a great group of people staying at the hotel... a couple from Canada, a group of 3 from Austria, a guy from Belgium, a couple from Israel, and then my group-- me, Erwin, and Celestino-- I wa... [more]
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December 9th 2006 - deirdre: so happy
hey tess, so good to have heard from you. we think you look happy, healthy, beautiful, and, most importantly, safe- so we're relieved. look at all the compadres and comadres you have found already. it's so great to read about your travels and see the images with them. jason wishes he could be diving too! i'll send some pics of Jaena-- she is such a delight and joy, and we're adjusting really well to parenthood so far.
big hugs from all of us.
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