We’ve been going on and on about how we decided to become divemasters in Utila, but it’s come to my attention that most people outside of the diving world don’t really know what a divemaster does.  So let’s change that, shall we? We, as divemasters, can not teach you, our lovely friends and family, how to scuba dive.  We would have to become instructors for that, another course that comes &#91read more]

That’s it. Three months after arriving in Utila, it’s time to say goodbye. It’s bittersweet in a way, this is the only time so far in our trip where we’ve had to move on. We are scheduled to meet Ashley’s mom and her mom’s boyfriend in Nicaragua. A plan that was hatched just before we decided to take a trip on the vomit comet… before scuba diving. But that’s life… &#91read more]

Jewel Cay and Pigeon Cay are located just off the southwest corner of Utila island, about 20 minutes by boat from the town of Utila. The two islands are pleasantly small. In fact, one of their greatest draws is their tiny size and the utter lack of motored vehicles. That’s right, there are no motor vehicles on these islands. There is but a single sidewalk connected by a concrete bridge &#91read more]

We thought we had already done the swimming with whale sharks thing.   July.  Isla Holbox, Mexico.  $70 bucks a person.  Two jumps in.  Two minutes a jump.  And we thought it was amazing! One of the whale sharks we saw in Utila… this time we took photos! But when whale sharks were spotted by dive boats around Utila, we started getting antsy. And when our dive boat started spotting them &#91read more]

If you would have told me seven months ago that I would become a divemaster on this journey, I would have laughed and called you crazy.  I come from landlocked Saskatchewan.  I didn’t even see the ocean until I was nineteen years old.  And I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with water.  I love to be in and around it, but have never been a strong swimmer.  I tried taking &#91read more]

Do you know about the lionfish? Some might call the lionfish a beautiful fish. Some even go so far as to purchase lionfish to keep in their aquarium and show off to their friends and family. And maybe, at one time, that was a reasonable sort of thing to do. But not now, not here in Utila. Here we like our lionfish dead. That’s right… the only good lionfish is &#91read more]

Jewel Cay, Honduras (just off the coast of Utila) has truly become home for us over the past three months.  We have our own apartment, friends, neighbours, and landlords that have become our adopted family. In two short weeks, we will be saying goodbye to it all, dusting off our backpacks, and continuing our journey with a trip to Nicaragua to meet up with my mom.  I’ll be sad to &#91read more]