Unda Da Sea

We landed on the isle of Utila, Honduras were the island's biggest lie is "I'm leaving tommorow". We said this ourselves about 9 times. Utila has some of the best food we've eaten ever and we became regulars at few backyard BBQs. Mmmmm Dave's BBQued jerk chicken!!!! The main attraction to Utila is it's the least expensive place on earth to explore the underwater world, so Talia confronted her fear of the ocean, and that's exactly what we did. You can now add another credential to our names. We are now officially "Scuba Nick" and "Scuba Talia". We embarked on a 5 day Scuba certification course that took us more than 18 meters deep into the ocean. There's a whole new world under the sea. We explored mountains of coral reef, filled with strange plants and colourful fish. We saw Angelfish, Lobsters, Eels, Discoballfish (unofficial name- black fish covered in blue dots radiating light), and most amazingly Stoplight Parrotfish. If you can imagine the most colourful parrot and add fins and gills you get these vibrant 2 foot long marine beauties that spend all day chomping on coral. One even greeted Talia by staring her in the face, a few feet away, and mouthed the words "Hello Talia". It was an incredible experience-so peaceful, so wonderous and so freeing to breathe underwater and become just another fish. We got off the boat each day with grins on our faces and singing "Unda da Sea". It really is better down where it's wetter!!!