After overhyped hurricanes, diving boats being full and general mayhem on the Island life is once again back to normal. The boats are doing out and people are getting back to doing nothing, full time. I managed to find a spot on a boat going out this moring with the dive center that we are staying at, Underwater Vision. I have not been in the water for about 5 years. I was required to do a “Tune Up”. All went extremely well, even though the diving was not amazingly breathtaking, just amazing. My diving buddy, Andy from Dublin, went though his air rather fast on the first dive and we had to cut it short. I still had maybe 20min left in me at the time. The second dive went much better. Not having to do all the Tune Up skills we were able to see more fish and reef. We did not see the famous Whale Shark but we did see a small sting ray and some beautiful reef fish.
Other than the diving life on the Island has been extemely relaxing. I rented the book A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and have been reading it in between banana smoothies, baleadas (Hondurean dish made with a thick corn tortilla, queso, and onions), and naps in the hammock. I wanted a book that would not bore me and Beah has done an amazing job at keeping me interested. I HIGHLY recomend this book. It is extremely graphic but very open and honest about the horrible situation of child soldiers in Africa. I always thought that Blood Diamond over did the story of the mans child who is captured by the RUF. How wrong I was.
Josh has to finish his Open Water certification late on Thursday before we can leave. We are not sure if we are going to dive on Friday morning or just call it after Josh is finished. Either way our next stop is Teguicgalpa for a night and then on to Nicaragua. Nicaragua was intended as the highlight of the trip but it looks like we will only have 3 or 4 days there before having to head down to Costa Rica. Panama is offically off the travel plan. Our goal to travel down to the canal has been put on temporary hiatus. Maybe next year we will start from Panama and make it down to the end of Chile. Take a few weeks…
