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..WHOAH there goes gravity…

Err.. Yeah.. anyway..

So I’m back on the mainland after my week out on the island of Roatan… which is F&/(’ing amazing… it’s beautiful… in every way… I spent my days diving and my nights at the bars with my fellow dive students and the instructors and divemasters in training… which was quite fun… God I love it there…

I did my PADI Open Water scuba certification course which involved 4 dives out on the reef which were AMAZING… the reef there is in pristine condition… and I got to friggin swim with a little sea turtle… SO ridiculously cool… he was probably about a foot across… and SO cute… it was so surreal… he was just hovering like a foot from my face checking me out like ‘what the hell is this weird thing doing down here?’ I also saw larger turtles but they stayed further away… Hmm… the coral and the fish were beautiful as well… If I only had an underwater camera I’d be able to share some of this with you all.. but I d0n’t…

After I finished my open water course I wanted to do one more dive and opted for a night dive that was going out… it counts as an Adventure dive so I can eventually apply it toward earning an Advanced Open Water certificate…

During my stay I also decided that the beard that I’d been growing for the past 6 weeks or had to go… ‘cause it was making my mask leak a bit… and it was just getting to long… So 2 blade cartridges later (and one funny facial hair-do) later… I was clean as a whistle… With less facial hair than I’ve had in years… Upon seeing me Georgia (one of the dive instructors.. from England) began calling me “Mickey Mouse Bum-Chin” ‘cause my face was all pale where the beard used to be… And some people didn’t recognize me… But my mask stayed nicely sealed afterward so it’s all worth it… I’m gonna grow it out again now… fun fun… There’re progress pictures below…

I do have some other pictures from the island though… though I was too busy chilling out to even think about it for the most part… Tomorrow I’m getting on a bus that’ll take me from here (La Ceiba, Honduras) to Antigua, Guatemala by tomorrow evening… I leave here at 5am and get into Antigua at 7pm… YIKES! But I paid a lot of money ($60) for a luxury bus so it’s no biggie… and they take care of all the border formalities so that’s great as well..

Anwyay… I’m gonna go call some of you… Enjoy the pics

 

  

Half Moon Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

  

Entrance to the dive shop from the beach

  

Sundowners (the bar across from my dive shop and hotel)

  

Beach fire at Sundowners

  

Native Son's dive boat

  

Sunset over Half Moon Bay

  

Boat leaving for a night dive at sunset

  

Shaving - Before

  

Shaving - Funny facial hair-do moment

  

All bald