Gemma checking that Ed has turned on his air. What a good wife.

Day 81 - We passed!

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September 21st 2006
Our diving course is not the sort of thing that many people fail, but it's nice to gain a new qualification all the same. We completed our course with the best dive of the lot, a 'wreck dive'. The ship we went to have a look around was a container ship called Halliburton, which has been lying 30m below the surface since it sank in 1998. It's hard to describe what it's like when this huge rusty ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Bay Islands » Utila

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Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a ha... ... read more