So, yes on the Sunday I last wrote I did the last two dives of my Advanced course. The Peak Performance Buoyancy was great fun. Swimming through hoops, doing high jump under water etc and always controlling your position by holding a deep breath or breathing out completely. THe problem is that if you laugh under water, your mask floods. I had to clear mine very often...
With the course I did, I also got two free fun dives. Those were planned for Monday. Luckily they only started in the afternoon, so I could have a long sleep and then slowly make my way to the dive shop. The dives were supposed to be down to a large ship wreck at 30m. Very exciting. The coolest thing about the dives were that the people I went in group down with were all either Dive Masters or Instructors that came to Utila to have some fun. So they were just schmaking around and we had an awesome time. Nitrogen narcosis is awesome as well. I laughed my head off at a fish... The rest of Monday night was to relax. Have a beer and take it easy.
The plan was to leave on Tuesday afternoon to Nicaragua with a Swiss girl (Daria) I met. Tuesday came and plans changed. We made it a sports day. Went kayaking, swimming and running. Very nice to do some sports again, but running in the heat is not always very easy... Having an extra day was nice, since walking through the streets on Utila, having a drink, a bite to eat and just enjoying how different every part of the world is just awesome fun to me.
Wednesday it was definitely time to leave though. The plan was to start a long trip all the way to San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. It would take us at least two days to get there. But there is a bus from San Pedro de Sula in Honduras to Managua in Nicaragua, which is most of the way. So we took the afternoon ferry from Utila to the mainland and made it to San Pedro de Sula on Wednesday night after nightfall and took a taxi to a hotel. Everyone said one has to watch out in Honduras because of the Cou and stuff. It turned out that that was no probelm, but the part of town where the hotels are is a real rough one. Guys in shot guns in front of every hotel and guys sleeping on the road between the hotels. Weird feeling.
So we arrived in San Pedro at 9 in the evening and ordered a taxi for 3.45h the next moring to take us back to the bus stations. Good nights sleep.. (???)
Thursday was torture. Up at 3.15h. 12 bus ride from San Pedro to Managua. With the lowlghts being: My bag took a beating. Within 10 minutes, the zip broke, a water bottel ran out inside it, wetting all my books and a woman vomitted on it. Good fun. The plan was to sleep in the bus. But after that happened I couldn´t even think about sleeping any more... Well, the 12 ride didn´t take us to were we wanted to go yet. Taxi to the other bus station, chicken bus for two hours, which was cramped like hell and then 30 minutes more taxi, beacause the buses stopped by then. Finally at around 9 in the evening we arrived in San Juan. Beautiful. All worth it again. Small town on a bay, with fishing boats just off the beach, lots of bars and restaurants on the beach and a slight evening breez. The one beer I had that night tasted like heaven. Unfortunately though the hostel we wanted to go to was full already that night.
So Friday morning we changed into the hostel we wanted to go to. Friday was a day of relaxing, sleeping, getting over the trauma and getting to know San Juan. Really, really cool here. Eventhough is almost a bit like package touristy with lots of americans, its still very relaxed. We booked a surf lesson for Saturday. I was very excited about that.
While walking through the shops, we realized how much silly cloths they sell here. We decided to buy lots of it and have a bit of a dress up party that night. Awesome fun. Unfortunately all the pictures were never found again...
Saturday moring we headed out to the beach with lots of other guys from the hostel and the instructor. All I can describe the day as is really 7 hours of heaven. Warm water, perfect waves, relaxed people, a nice beach and I caught quite a few good waves. Most of the peole left at 3.30 back to the hostel. I stayed until 5.30 and was out on the water most of the time. Only locals left with amazing skills. Just watching and learing and every now and then get beaten up by a wave. So much fun.
One should expect that we had a quite night, but it was the weekend really, so we decided to go out again. When I got to bed at 3.30 though I was dead as it gets.
On Sunday moring we were all so dead, that there was not even the slightes idea of going surfing or big activities. Surfing is really quite tiring and al my muscles were acing like hell. By the early afternoon I was back to old strenght and managed to convince 4 other peole to go on a fishing trip with me. It was 15 US and lasted 2.5 hours. WOW. So much fun. 10 people on the boat. We caught 16 fish. Tuna, Makrel and Jack fish. Great, great time. The only downside. I had a 2 meter shark on the line, which I lost when it was just by the boat. When it was giving me a bit of slack, it tightened the reel to get it further and then it chared. The line snapped. So upset! Couldn´t even fall asleep last night cause I was so upset. We still had the best dinner last night ever We took 5 fish between the 5 of
us and cooked them at the hostel. So much fun to cook and be in the kitchen with a cool crowd of people. I filleted the fish and Daria (having never done it before) cleaned and filleted half the fish. With all the blood and guts. She liked it as well, which scared me a bit. Jokes aside. An aweome experience! The guys from the boat were trying to get money off me for the lost lure though, which put me in a bit of a moral delemma. I dont really think that losing a lure is a mistake that I should pay. Especially becasue they never said anything beofrhand and told us everything was included... Anyways, I´ll go to the shop again today and talk to them. It would be ok to pay a bit but they wanted 25 US. Hope we´ll find an agreement (in spanish...)Today, Monday is not planned at all, so I´ll live it as it comes...
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