Utila Stories


Dive professionals!

Hey everyone, me and tim are now in honduras, where we have jsut qualified as divers! The course was 3 days, with huge amounts of book work (almost made oxford look easy) and some really scary skills to start with, such as knocking out your breathing tube underwater and flooding your face mask. I wasnt sure if i liked it at first, but when we got proper...


No diving for me!? Damn!

I'm here... on Utila; the smallest island of the Bay Islands. It is beautiful uphere... something I didn't suspected after the drama of La Ceiba. But anyway, got of the boat and found myself loaded with pamflets of all the diving schools just five minutes after! Mmmm... diving... ok! So I subscribed for the course starting on the 4th, had to fill in all...


Part III: Utila and Omoa

As for the island of Utila, again, I think it would have been great to visit in the summer. Utila is known for scuba diving, one of the cheapest places to get PADI certified. We did not want to get certified but we figured it would be like Caye Caulker in Belize... just chilling on the island. It was and wasn’t. It rained the whole time and there were ...


Utila first part

At the Rotterdam Hotel I met two other Canadians, Cindy and Drew, who were also heading for the Utila ferry early the next morning. We all shared the cab which turned out to be the smartest move for the price to the ferry docks is fixed. Whether your one or five the trip will run you 6US, which for here is pretty steep. It was an incredibly peaceful...