25th of july

my previous comment on the wild life on utila difinitely should be expanded. as if getting eaten alive by the sandflies is not enough (no bugspray can kill those beasts and they seem to find me any time of the day any place) i was literally attacked by that monstrous cockroach that invited itself to my room some 3 days ago. while i was peacefully chilling on my bed watching one of those amazing cabel channels offered by our "luxurious" hotel utila i heard an odd noise on the other side of the room and some two seconds later saw with a corner of my eye a giant bug sitting....on my cheek. if the whole hotel didn't hear my reaction, it certainly must have heard what followed after that. when it dawned on me that this creature was an 8cm long fat and ugly cockroach i had no where else to go but marianne's room in order to invite a cockroach smashing expert to take care of my problem. hunting down that beast was not all that easy and calm, i had to flee the room a few times but eventually the enemy was beaten and marianne wrapped it up in a sheet and carried outside. needless to say, sleeping in that room was somewhat difficult that night. i wonder if i should complain to the owner of the hotel...hmm...she'd just probably tell me how glad she'd be if i packed my things and left for good. so, we're still staying at that same hotel and i don't think any kind of disinfection will take place in my room.

after an eventfull night at hotel utila it was time to get up at 6am in order to catch that boat to the reef for my proper deep dive. if i still had maybe some hope that i'd enjoy the whole activity at 6am, it was definitely gone by 8am. i started feeling dizzy already on the boat. when it was time to go down, equalizing the pressure was somewhat difficult and i was feeling dizzy because of the current. taking that motion sickness pill just did not help at all. the reef looked cool but i felt completely detached from it, as if i were observing it on a screen, like on tv. when finally on the surface the current was crazy, choppy weather conditions, said the diving instructors. that all contributed to the fact that i felt absolutely horribly seasick. there was no way i was going to do that second dive and so during the following 40 min i was being rocked on that boat and offered a free breakfast to the fish. now comes the ironic part. down at the reef i didn't manage to see that many fishies, something i really hoped i'd see, so i was completely disappointed. once on the boat, vomiting, however, an enormous amount of the most beautiful small fishes appeared out of the blue and well, it was not necessary to do all that diving after all :D so, i can gladly say i've done scuba diving, completely disliked it and now will stay on the firm ground. after all that suffering on the boat i naturally was completely exhausted and missed the cave tour organized by our spanish school. that is of course lame, but well, next time then. now it is time to go and explore the gastronomic side of utila once again, hoping to get some good and not too expensive food. (last night was a complete failure in this sense. had a small plate of mediocre shrimps and paid for it some obscene price according to the local price list)

we have one day more or less left on utila and on sunday marianne and i will start our long journey towards nicaragua with a stop-over in tegucigalpa. i have a hunch it will be demanding.