Utila - Honduras

On our way to Utila - this was prior to me being sick on the boat 

 View from Utila - Honduras Bay Islands

 Barracuda catch!

 

Wild side of the island just how Columbus saw it on his fourth voyage to the new world. Columbus encountered a fairly large population of Paya (Bay Islands indigenous) whom he believed to be cannibals.
Later on, English, French, and Dutch pirates established settlements on the islands and raided the Spanish cargo vessels laden with gold and other treasures from the New Wold; at that time as many as 5,000 pirates were living on that island ...
Colonization by the Spanish began in the early 16th century. Over the next century, the Spanish plundered the island for its slave trade and eliminated the island of its natives by the early 17th century. Britain, in its aggressive attempt to out-colonize the Spanish in the Caribbean, occupied the Bay Islands on and off between 1550 and 1700. During this time, the buccaneers found the vacated, mostly unprotected islands a haven for safe harbor and transport.
Útila is rich in pirate lore, and even presently, scuba divers look for sunken treasure from Captain Morgan's lost booty from his raid on Panama in 1671!

 Alton's Dive Center

Ready for equalizing

Top Breakfast -Thompson's Enrollada de Canella' y 'Jugo de piña'

Wondering when my desk will arrive