Getting Wet In Utila

Imagine a tropical island paradise. Then imagine take that image and submerge it in water - that would be approximately what it's like during huricane season. Doug, Rich, and I decided to take a trip to Honduras to visit our dear friend and roommate AJ in his home country, but did not expect it to rain every single day without respite. When we later questioned AJ about this his only response was, "I thought you knew it was huricane season." Needless to say that phrase has since become infamous.

But if you're in a tropical island paradise and its raining all day, everyday, you might as well go diving, because at least their you're supposed to get wet. Utila is world-renowned for its excellent diving, so since we had nothing else to do and because it was so cheap we dove 3-4 times per day for the whole week. The only problem was that with the stormy conditions and lack of intense sunlight, the visibility was not great. We still managed to have fun together though, despite the fact that with our diving 3 times a day and the constant rain, our skin never actually dried for the whole week, even overnight. Also, Doug's bag was lost by the airline and he had to survive for the whole week on 2 shirts and a pair of Honduras's finest sandels, that didn't quite fit. One of his shirts happened to be an early Christmas gift from me, the Rich called a "Guatemalan prayer cloth". Needless to say he was a little embarassed when I gave him a similar shirt a second later!