After visiting Copan we headed off to the Carribean to learn to dive. The islands off the coast of Honduras are some of the cheapest and clearest places in the world to learn and so we could not miss this opportunity to have a go. We chose Utila Water Sports as our dive school, mainly because they seemed the most patient and professional - and as an added bonus they had fabulous accomodation overlooking the water with their own jetty for catching the sunset.
It was pretty scary learning to dive at first, but amazing once you get comfortable with being underwater. They provided 4 fun dives free after the course which were perfect for practicing and getting more comfortable with each dive.
On the final fun dive, we had an amazing sighting of 15 to 20 pilot whales swimming around the boat - we´ve seen a lot of whales, but this must be one of the best sightings we´ve ever had! Utila is also famous for Whale Sharks - huge beasts around 40ft long, but unfortunately sigthings are increasingly rare and we did not manage to see one on our trip - we were then somewhat bummed to discover that the day after we left the rest of the group saw and swam with one! esta la vida !!
