Oh and....

When i posted the last entry it was before I did the 2 free fun dives in Utila, due to what these dives were like, i feel its necessary to update the blog again now...

These dives were possibly (and i know im saying this alot) one of the most amazing things ive experienced. By this time I was quite good underwater, and i could relax and swim around, rather than worrying about breathing and equalizing etc. I was chasing fish through the coral reef (the reef is absolutely amazing- the most crazy looking coral youve ever seen, and every colour you can imagine), lying on the ocean floor looking up at Eagle Rays gliding casually above me, spotting massive Green Moray Eels coming out of their little holes within the coral. We also saw a ship wreck which was so incredible...it was covered in coral and life of all types. I spent a while gliding around it, peering through windows and suprising giant fish of some sort (It must be weird for them to see a massive human with fins and a tank of air peering into their homes...). By this time I had finished my Open Water and so am now officially a Open Water Diver!...and can dive anywhere in the world! (I plan to go to Israel for the Red Sea next, then Australia for some Great barrier reef and 'shrimp on the barbie'). Unfortunately we didnt see the Hammerhead shark which was in the area, but maybe that was for the best (I still have all my limbs)

I also forgot to write about how i knew Utila would be a party time...before i even got off the boat, i was invited to a beach party. At the party i chatted to the DJ who was telling me how he loved Dubstep (type of music) (he was very jelous im from Bristol (the home of Dubstep))...he also said he liked Guido (Guy- helena's (my friends) brother), so there we were dancing to Guido on a beach on a Honduran Island.

Oh and i forgot to say, im in Nicaragua now. Me and a friend from Utila (26 year old Financial man from NYC) travelled down here over the past few days. We stayed in a hostel which was also a micro-brewry on the way (so good to have real great beer (ale) after many a bad honduran beer) and am now in Leon which is an abolsutely brillant city. So Honduras....cool place and what i noticed is that theres many more black people there (mostly Garifuna- decendants of slaves on St Vincent who the British dumped on the Bay Islands because they rebelled), and also they love Baleadas (tortillas stuffed with beans, vegetables, and meat).

Its rediculous; you do insane things that you never thought youd ever do like sleep ontop of a remote mayan temple surrounded by monkeys and rainforest or jump of a cliff into a massive crater lake surrounded by volcanoes, and you think 'surely this insanity cant continue?!' but then things always come up: diving with coral reefs in the Caribbean sea etc.
Not long left but i dont care because im having the best time. Let me know how you folks are.


Love 'n' stuff
Señor Simon