Utila...

We motored all the way to Utila...thunderstoms followed us...it was only 15 miles or so...This is Isla Utila as we motored by the northeast tip...Pumpkin Hill is the biggest hill! We went around lighthouse reef and into the small bay and anchorage. This is one of the dive boats going out...looking past the lighthouse reef and to the mainland. Cute little town...lots of young people here...lots of dive shops and diving going on! Unfortunately we never made it diving...Early one morning I went up and saw this precious little creature...now any and all of my "potential" students...besides looking for surfacing under a boat and looking for boat traffic...why do we look up and and all around when we ascend from a dive?? I certainly would not want to meet this guy at the surface!!! Anyway, we checked out of Honduras and well...I couldn't sit still so I went out and took some of these pictures. Paul calls these torpedo boats... Some boys brought these crabs over to the lady at the Correros (I think I spelled that wrong...Post Office).We did have a wonderful dinner at Mariposa last night with Phyllis and Jeff on Antares (another Amel almost identical to the Lady H). They are headed up the Rio Dulce AND to Mario's as well...so we are packing up tonight and heading out tomorrow morning with them for a 45 mile (most likely motor) anchorage on the mainland...Punta Sol...I believe...then another stop or two on the mainland before we are outside of Livingston. We have made arrangements to be guided over the 6' bar (remember Amels have a 7' draft) into Livingston, Guatemala on Tuesday the 23rd very early in the morning...7 o'clock. From there we will motor up the river and to Mario's Marina. More than likely we will have no internet until we are there...