Utila/Jewel Key!

I really have no idea where to begin with describing vacation. This past week has been unbelievable and nothing I can say or write will do it justice. Well, on Friday last week we left Tegus and took an 8 hour bus ride to La Ceiba. It turned out that since the weather was so bad the ferries hadn’t been going out to the islands for a few days now. It poured like crazy, literally a monsoon. We found a hostel for pretty cheap in La Ceiba called “Banana Republic Hostel” The cool thing about hostels is that you see such a variety of people. We met people from Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, US, Israel,etc.
The Israelis were nuts and invited us all to go smoke pot with them but we declined. Basically they got baked like every 2 hours and listened to crazy techno called Dub step all night.
The next day was the first day the ferry went out because apparently the waves were now safe enough to take a boat out to the island. Either that or they were just losing too much money cause the waves were huge. Tickets came with a motion sickness pill and a bag incase you had to throw up. I honestly felt like I was in the move perfect storm and was honestly scared for my life for a little while in the boat. We tipped forward/backward and side to side as the waves washed over the top of the boat for an hour an 15 minutes. The waves were so large that when we went over them you got butterflies in your stomach. Basically a never ending rollercoaster. Some people started puking 10 minutes in. I made it to about 45 before I tossed my cookies. At least 1/3 of the people on our ferry threw up. Pukefest.

Once we reached Utila, we did some shopping for a dive shop. We went to about 7 different ones finding sweet packages until we decided on Captain Morgans. Our package came with the scuba class, 7 nights stay, free snorkel & cayaks, and a free T-shirt. The best part of the deal is that Captain Morgan’s is located on Jewel Key, one of the super tiny islands on the west coast of Honduras. We shared our little island with our other scuba buddies and like 50-100 people that live there. Jewel key and the one next to it are connected by a bridge and walking from the far end of one key across the bridge to the far end of the other key took roughly 4 minutes. Very small. Needless to say we got to know the 2 local restaurants pretty well.
Sunset we got to see every night
The crew & Chacon
Pizza night!

Our dock. we spend all sorts of time just hangin out here.
This was our classroom where we learned all about the physics of scuba.

Just right off our our dock we were able to see all sorts of crazy things like this squid, needlefish, octopus, lobster, etc.