Spent a day here, while Karen recovered, and Phil went on a rampage trying to find a bank that would provide US dollars.... none of them do. (We didn't fancy carrying around '000's of Lempiras - the local currency, which would be a wad a couple of centimetres thick.) We needed this volume of cash for Phil's Dive Course, oh, well, let's hope they let Phil through on good will.
Although, they will give you the local Lempira, then let you exchange.... so you can lose out twice on the fees and then the exchange rate. And the banks will also direct you around town to all the other banks which also don't provide US dollars!
Then the ferry crossing to Utila.... it wasn't a comfortable ride for an already ailing Karen. Naturally seasick, she got a bit green (think Kermit).
Utila
We're staying here at the Mango Inn... Phil's classroom is just on the left. Our room is upstairs in the far left corner.After taking a day to recover, Karen started, and has now finished her Open Water course!! She's now officially a diver! (I'm starting to influence her).
Karen went on a couple of fun dives too, saw a sea turtle, squids, moray eels, fish, coral, fish and coral, oh, and more fish. It's also quite amazing how much dead coral makes up the beaches around the island.
My (Phil's) course starts today, and I'll unfortunately have to hang around this tropical paradise for another couple of weeks. Karen's leaving today for numerous Spanish schools and still has no idea what direction she's headed.
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Nice photos. Love the one of the ray.
Apologies if this gets posted twice - blame the computers.
Are you guys any near the Mosquito Coast?
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