Blogs from Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras, Central America Caribbean - page 9

Hello all, Been a reasonably quiet week this week, been cloudy off and on which good as cooler especially at nights! Also means less feeding of the iguanas, which can take a hour or so and is hot work getting in and out of the cages. Mind you weekend was quite busy as we tried a new bar called La Pirata by the ferry dock, only 25 lims a beer and were showing Chelsea Man City game, went back there Sunday too to watch USA against Canada for Olypics Ice Hockey Gold, was packed obv with canadians and americans, we supported Canada.lol Two new arrivals this week, timothy from Watford and Sammi from manchester, picked both up from the ferry mon and tuesday, we took sammy to a few bars even though he was tired but ... read more

On the way to pumpkin hill there is a hill called Brandon Hill and on this hill is Brandon caves, the locals call them the bat caves. We walked here a few weeks ago but not had a chance to write up the blog so here it is! The caves have several species of bats in them, mainly fruit bats but there are some 1 metre wing span vampire bats here too, the largest bat in the northern hemisphere! They don’t bite humans or cattle they eat small birds. We were told they have their own chamber but we did not go and see them as you have to explore deeper into the caves. Stories go that captain Henry Morgan the welsh pirate hid his treasure on the island and the bat caves is a place ... read more

10.02.2010, fuer ca. 2 Wochen Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras Von Livingston reiste ich mit Boot nach Puerto Barrio, von dort aus gönnte ich mir anstelle von Bus ein Taxi bis zur Grenze nach Honduras. Dann ging es weiter mit dem Chicken Bus nach Puerto Cortes... eine schier endlose Reise. Von dort gab es einen direkten Shuttle nach San Pedro Sula wo ich in letzter Minute noch einen Bus nach La Ceiba erwischte. La Ceiba ist der Ausgangsort um auf die Inseln Utila und Roatan zu gelangen. Ich reiste nach Utila, der Ort wo man angeblich am günstigsten Tauchen kann. Ich logierte in Trudy's Hotel. Backpacker, Restaurant und Tauchshop in einem. Ich machte dort 3 Tauchgänge bevor ich mich dazu entschied im Utila Dive Center den Rescue Diver zu machen. Der 1. Tauchgang war nachts.... hat Spaß ... read more

This blog is to tell you a bit more about the island of Utila. The island is one of three islands called the Bay Islands about an hour boat ride NE of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea and its only 7 miles by about 3 miles in size. The island was discovered by Christopher Columbus and the islanders still speak a sort of english carribbean spanish mix! the locals seem very friendly. The roads are concrete and seem like golf course paths! There are only a few trucks on the island the majority use push bikes or mopeds and quads and golf carts are popular, with a few tuk tuk taxis. You need to listen out so as to not get run over! The island was created by volcanic activity which caused the coral bed to ... read more

After everyone had a long sleep, we all went down to the dock to lay in the sun. Matt, Jeff, and Justin have there last dive at 1:00pm and I planned to walk around the island taking photos. James decided it was going to be another party day along with Kelly. They went off together for the day. Clouds rolled in so our days wouldn't be as great. I headed off with my camera but the dull grey sky killed all my shots I think. There were some nice rock formations though so maybe I got some good ones. I stopped at some of the local stores to pick up a souvenir and some awesome baleadas (tortillas with beans). The boys got back from their dive and again had a great time. They saw some huge ... read more