the caribbean

I finally found a computer that would allow me to plug my camera into it, so here are some pictures people have been asking for. I wasn´t able to get a camera to take photos underwater, but in addition to seahorses I saw a morray eel, some more stingrays and tons of amazing fish. Plus we got to play some fun games in the water, including frisbee about 50 feet underwater. Woohoo!


looking back on Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras


sunset on the way to my night scuba dive; Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras


Marius, my scuba buddy, and me ready for one of our last dives

seahorses!

I just got back from my first 2 scuba diving experiences and it was fantastic! And as you might be able to guess from the title, we saw seahorses! They were tiny, especially considering one was a baby. We also saw a huge hermit crab co-habitating with some shrimp and a gigantic cucumber. Although I just realized I made a classic scuba diving mistake, as everything is 1/3 bigger underwater, so the cucumber probably wasn't as big as I think. I'll keep posting about the underwater sights as I experience them and will hopefully be able to take some photos at the end of my course. Right now I'm concentrating on breathing underwater (it's harder than you might think!)

downpour in the caribbean

I finally made it the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras, and after finding a scuba diving instructor with whom I feel safe, it started raining and hasn't stopped since yesterday afternoon. Not surprisingly, this makes it difficult to learn how to scuba dive. Hopefully the weather will clear and I will get to see some fantastic sights of the underwater world.

These islands are a whole different world than anything else. I'm not entirely sure which language I should speak and can't understand everything people are saying to me because it's very Caribbean (think Jamaican, almost). It's easy to see how people come for vacation and stay for 15 years.

I ate barracuda last night (yes, I ate fish). It was pretty good, same consistency as tuna, but different flavor, not too fishy.

Also, I realized that on some computers the photos of the summit don't look very good, they are way too dark (they looked good on the computer I posted them on), so I apologize and will change them out later.