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Published: March 15th 2011
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Today I’m skipping our two morning dives so I can get my online homework done for the day, buuuuuuut…….the internet isn’t working. So that’s cool. Apparently us Americans used three days worth of their very limited bandwidth within a two hour span last night. The internet provider cut us off for 24 hours.
We do three dives a day. On the evenings that we do a night dive, we skip the after lunch dive. Since we'll have spare time before the night dive, we’re heading back to mainland Utila to check things out. That’s why I opted to do my homework this morning; the night dive doesn’t start until 6:30pm, then dinner, then we’ll be whipped. Breathing that tank air takes everything out of you.
.....Walking around here at night is neat, but you have to be careful because hermit crabs are everywhere. The path isn’t lit very well. You have to keep your eye out for the moving seashells so you don’t crush them.
There are humming bird feeders at the main dining hall/lounge that is bustling with humming birds during the day and at night they are swarmed with fruit bats (See video above). Not the
Sign in town
"Kill only time. Take only memories. Leave only bubbles." super cute fruit bats like we saw in New Zealand though. I like bats in general, but these look a lot more like the bats we have in Michigan, from what I can see. You can hear in the video, Steve the owner, explains that they won't hit you, but they might pee on you. And that they did when I tried to get a picture. There is no avoiding the bats either. You have to walk through them to get into the dining area for dinner.
The gang is back from their dive and we’re heading into town soon. I just got word that the internet probably won’t be running again until tomorrow. I’ve been successful at posting for our daily discussion board requirements and getting my assignments in on time thus far, so hopefully if I don’t get to log in today, it will be the only day I miss.
…..Well, it’s the evening now and we successfully completed our night dive and dinner. The night dive was awful. As we got out there, gathered our gear, and were briefed on the dive, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, the waves bigger and bigger.
We were told that we needed to go straight down and “Do not float off to Timbuktu. The reef is too shallow and there is no way the boat can come get you.” That was reassuring. We would be starting our dive against the current and when we surfaced, we needed to try to come up near the front of the boat so we didn’t come up near the ladder in the back and float off waiting for our turn to climb aboard.
After the briefing, we headed down and it started off smoothly. We dove a wall of the reef, Alex and I together, one of the dive masters below us, the group ahead of us. Nicely spaced out, but everyone was moving fast as if it were a race. Once we reached our destination it was crowded. The current was jostling us around. It felt like we were in a wash machine while trying not to hit each other or the reef.
We did see a lot of lobster, shrimp, and sleeping parrot fish. I’ve seen plenty of parrot fish, but I’ve never see them sleeping. They were just floating in place as if they were
dead.
We were all glad to be back on the boat, ready for a drink, dinner, and to call it a night. Of course, I’m still waiting for the internet to come back to get my assignment in before midnight. Time is running out. In the mean time, I’m ready to pass out. My legs and arms look like I have a case of the chicken pox and feel like that too. I think I am going to give up on the net call it a night. There is only a half hour to get the assignment, complete it, and turn it in Jackson time, anyway.
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Denae
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I see that red skin....STOP SCRATCHING!!!!! I like your room, super cute!