Honduras

After our mission up from El Salvador we spent a week on the island of Utila which is one of the Bay Islands in Honduras. It is known to be the cheapest place in the world to go scuba diving and there are dozens of dive schools offering various deals.

We ended up signing up to do the advanced open water course (we both already had open water) which involved 5 adventure dives and 4 free fun dives as well as accommodation through the dive school.

The dives that we did for our course included: a deep dive that took us down to 30m in order to see a ship wreck; a peak performance buoyancy dive that involved swimming though hoops at different levels under water, a game of frisbee that was funny because everything was in slow motion and matrix style fighting (without flippers); a naturalist dive to learn about identifying different types of fish, reef etc; a navigation dive to improve compass skills underwater; and a night dive.

On the dives we saw lots of different types of fish, eels, turtles, shrimp and octopus.

The accommodation provided was an apartment on the seafront with a swimming area. We shared this with various people throughout the week, max of 8.

There was a really beautiful, picture postcard beach area 5 mins walk from the apartment with clear, still, turquoise water and golden sand - it had a small charge to keep it clean and stop it getting overcrowded.

The nightlife on the island was good as there are lots of bus that are open late and a couple of clubs. We spent most evenings drinking rum on our balcony with the others before going out, sometimes having to get up to dive at 6a the following morning.