Leon was actually a much larger city than I had thought. The hustle and bustle was a far cry from island life. We had all read about Bigfoot hostel and were excited to be staying somewhere with a pool, pretty essential considering most of the days we were there, it was in the forties! Bigfoot was also know as bit of a party hostel or as my guide described it 'A place for whipper-snappers' That night we all went out for some drinks at a bar with live music and ...

After three weeks of diving in vast, empty, private reefs I had originally decided not to bother going to the popular Bay Islands off Honduras but then after talking to Verena and Patrick, a German couple that we met in the hostel we decided that maybe we should go after all and just sit back and relax for a couple of days, and maybe I would throw in a dive or two. Plus I can hardly come all the way to Honduras and not visit the Bay Islands! The coach from Cop...

I have seen Maya ruins in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize so why not start our visit to Honduras in the same fashion. Copan Ruines is a small Honduran town that on the map looked pretty simple to get to from Belize via Guatemala. I was soon proved wrong, a boat, a taxi, a bus, another taxi, a night in a San Pedro Sula and another bus and we finally arrived at Copan a day later than planned. On top of all that, I had come down with some sort of stomach bug and hadn...

Three weeks with Reef CI and I was starting to feel institutionalised, I didn't want to leave but my last week proved just as exciting as the first two, with amazing Eagle Rays, Nurse Sharks on every dive and an awesome Dolphin encounter. The end of diving Reef CI also marked the arrival of Liann and a whole new chapter in my travels. Friday came and we returned to the mainland, I checked back into Amaya's and set about waiting for Liann; how else better to do...

My year of travel has all been planned around one thing, Whale shark season in south Belize. Whale Sharks season in Belize runs from March-June with the few days after a full moon being to optimum time to spot them. So I chose to go to Reef CI for three weeks over the full moon on April the 6th to give me the best change of spotting our oceans largest fish! The full moon also sparks off coral spawning and the magical 'String of Pearls'. I was told to be at Th...