Honduras part 2: Under the caribbean sun

Utila is a beautiful little island where life goes by slowly The island is covered in coconut palms and diving schools, baleadas (traditional Honduran food made of a big wheat tortilla filled with beans, eggs, cheese and onions) and the best sea food I’ve had in a very long time. The locals are a mix of blacks, whites and latinos and even though Honduras is a spanish speaking country, it’s the caribbean broken english that dominates.

When we’re not diving our time is spent mostly in the hammocks out on the dock reading books, talking about all and nothing and napping every now and then. If it gets too hot, something that happens quite a lot, we jump in to the clear turquoise water and swim around for a while before we climb back into our hammocks for some more relaxation. As the sun goes down below the caribbean horizon and the colors explode over the sky we head out to one of the many restaurants and enjoy a feast of grilled fished; tuna, barracuda, kingfish or snapper. The choices are many and I’m loving it!

the dock and hammock area at sunset

As I said, time goes by slowly. But the days fly by and all of a sudden our national day, 17th of may, arrives. There is hand drawn flags, several liters of cheap booze, home made cake, balloons, bread and white cheese and big signs with our national anthem and other norwegian songs. Posters inviting anyone who wants to come celebrate with us are hung up all over the village and when there is no more booze left we are about 25 people parading down the street with lids and one harmonica as our only instruments, singing and shouting as we make our way to the amazing bar TreeTanic (the whole bare is a piece of art in the top of a tree) where the party continues till late!

the national anthem, booze and flag

parading through the streets

It was quite an interesting celebration and a good way to end a my week long stay in the caribbean!