Day Six

Another hot day on the island, in fact some were saying that it was the hottest day Honduras has had so far this year. Not sure exactly what the temp was, but it was probably around 33-34 degrees – plus the humidity.

Half Moon Bay first thing in the morning - Very calm today

Dove twice today, first one was at Canyon Reef. We went out at 9am and dove 18m for 43 minutes. Saw a bunch of Arrow Crabs, some Cleaner Shrimp, a Lettuce Seaslug, a neat looking Spotted Drum, another Hawksbill turtle, a big school of Sargeant Majors, a Yellowheaded Jawfish and some Spanish Mackerel – among hundreds of other common species.  Second dive was around 11:30am, went out to a place called Butchers Bank. Dove 18m for only 35 minutes this time. My backup regulator was having some problems that we didn’t notice, and it caused my tank to run out very quick – Had to go up early. Saw some more crabs, shrimp, as well as two large Southern Stingrays, a Sailfin Blenny and an albino Sharktail Eel.

This Nassau Grouper followed us for 15-20 minutes on our dive,  swam right below me the whole time

After diving we were going to cook up the fish that we caught yesterday. We had a nice piece of Barracuda, which Jamie my dive buddy made into ceviche – and we threw the tuna onto the charcoal barbeque with some peppers tomatoes and onions. It was all delicious, especially the ceviche. By the time we had finished cooking and whatnot, it was past 5pm and time to shower up and head to Sundowners for the end of happy hour. There were some girls heading down from Calg/Edmonton that were supposed to meet up with us tonight – we managed to run into them while watching the Ottawa/Philly hockey game on TV at Sundowners.

Sundowners beach bar, drinking a Monkey Lala mid day

We introduced ourselves and chatted for a bit – Nice girls! We then headed down to the Beuna Vida bar/restaurant that is attached to our dive shop. Had some more beers, rums, Monkey Lala’s, shots and even some deep fried cheese there. After that we headed across the street to the Blue Marlin, for karaoke night. It was packed in there, lots of people singing, drinking, dancing and having a good time. The girls (Brittanay, Melissa and Sarah) were quite the Karaoke artists, I think they got up there 3 times. Tried to convince me to get up there.... I must not have been drunk enough. The night ended off somewhere around midnight (I think... no clocks here). Went back to the room, fried up a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich and set my alarm to get up bright and early for some more diving.