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Hello all!!!
We have had an eventful week since I last wrote. From Tela we took a bus to a town called La Ceiba, which is more like a sprawling american city, so not very pleasant. We stayed the night in a little place called Banana Republic which was alright but a little quiet. We were more using it as a jump off point to reach the Jungle River Lodge (just out of La Ceiba) for a spot of white water rafting and a chillax. Reaching the Jungle River Lodge the next day was nice, as the name says it was set in the jungle right on a river, so the setting was stunning. We donned our life jackets and made for the boats to have a float down the rapids. It was low flow period and therefore the rapids were only between grade 1 and 4 (the 4's were exciting), but it was cool to be rafting again after having done it in Alaska. It was good fun. That evening we had my birthday celebrations which in usual fashion meant getting absolutely Gazeeboed. We started at around 2 in the afternoon and drank until early evening (apparently I was in bed at 9:30 which is the sign of a good night).
Eugh the next morning was horrific, I felt rough. We chilled out in the morning before going to do some jumping off 8m rocks into the water which was cool. Pretty high when you're up there, but the river in those points was deep. A girl called Jen who has joined us travelling from Aus jumped in and landed in a seated position and has the most horrific bruise on her leg!! Was a hard landing.
We stayed another night and the next morning proceeded to the ferry terminal to catch one of the choppiest boat rides known to man over to the Bay Island, Utila to get some diving on the go. We found a really cool dive shop doing advanced Open Water Qualifications for $250 which included the course and 5 night accommodation, which is a pretty damn good deal. We started the Advanced course which included doing a night dive, deep (30m) dive, drift dive (current diving), and some skills. The deep dive was really cool, we combined that with a wreck dive, so went and explored around a shipwreck at 30m depth, so very exciting. The night dive however was bloody amazing, we could only see what our torches were focused on, however we spotted octopus (which were cool as), moray eels, squirrel fish, sleeping parrot fish (which were very funny).
Simon and I are now Advanced divers.
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