Diving
Friday, July 18th, 2008After chatting with some peeps on the ferry to Utila, Alan (a Belgian guy I recognized from the hostel in San Pedro Sula) and I followed the advice that I received from my Tela drinking companions – we put our heads down and walked straight through the swarms of dive shop reps trying to recruit from most of the 20 or so shops on the island; we were signing up at Ecomarine/Gunter’s dive shop. Didn’t take too long to get there as Utila is the smaller of the three Bay Islands of Honduras. There are two main roads on which very few actual cars drive – scooters and golf carts are the principal mode of transport…and feet of course.
As opposed to Roatan and Guanja, people go to Utila for mainly one thing: cheap diving. [read on]
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