Fri, 6 Apr ....
what to do today???????? ... the weather is still really hot, with no breeze .... i saw Annie, the daughter of Annie, the owner of Hotel Utila ... i asked if i could take a picture of her, James, and her daughter Aleah .... out by their newly landscaped beach area ... nice people ...
then i decided to go for a walk .... in the heat of the day ... i did take water :) ...someone had told me that you can walk past the Iguana Research Station and up a hill path and have a great view of the island ... so i thought i'd try to find that path ... i walked for quite awhile .. and ended up at a dead end fence ... backtracked, and found another road ... that lead up to this yet-unopened-restaurant ... nice sign :) ....
so i walked back to the Iguana Research Station to ask them ... Jeff (one of the other volunteers from the Whale Shark office) was volunteering there! ... he asked, and then we crawled under a barbed-wire fence and found the path ... it was REALLY hot up on that hill !! ...
it's called Stuart Hill and there is a huge water tower at the top. Jeff and i climbed up the ladder for the beautiful view ... this is the bay that Utila Town is on ...
and in the upper right corner, you can barely see the rock and harbor that Greg, Heather, and i kayaked out to a few weeks ago...
the locals will tell you that THIS is the REAL Utila ..... all green and forested ... NOT that loud noisy street down by the water .... it is pretty up here ..
stopped into the Dive Shop and found Greg and asked him if he wanted to go somewhere for dinner tonight ... he agreed ... and of course, it is Karaoke Friday ... it took awhile to get organized after he got off work at 7pm .... had to stop into the Lodge Bar for a drink, and got talked into a shot of tequila :( ... then we finally walked to the other end of the island for dinner at Fidi's ... it's a seafood restaurant on the water .... we split a garlic shrimp dinner ... it was excellent shrimp ... not over cooked, and perfectly seasoned .... then back to Karaoke .... it was busy in there, with lots of locals, ... choosing 'spanish songs' .... i didn't even get to sing tonight :(
i think i called it quits around midnight ... leaving all my friends at the bar :)
then i decided to go for a walk .... in the heat of the day ... i did take water :) ...someone had told me that you can walk past the Iguana Research Station and up a hill path and have a great view of the island ... so i thought i'd try to find that path ... i walked for quite awhile .. and ended up at a dead end fence ... backtracked, and found another road ... that lead up to this yet-unopened-restaurant ... nice sign :) ....
so i walked back to the Iguana Research Station to ask them ... Jeff (one of the other volunteers from the Whale Shark office) was volunteering there! ... he asked, and then we crawled under a barbed-wire fence and found the path ... it was REALLY hot up on that hill !! ...
it's called Stuart Hill and there is a huge water tower at the top. Jeff and i climbed up the ladder for the beautiful view ... this is the bay that Utila Town is on ...
and in the upper right corner, you can barely see the rock and harbor that Greg, Heather, and i kayaked out to a few weeks ago...
the locals will tell you that THIS is the REAL Utila ..... all green and forested ... NOT that loud noisy street down by the water .... it is pretty up here ..
stopped into the Dive Shop and found Greg and asked him if he wanted to go somewhere for dinner tonight ... he agreed ... and of course, it is Karaoke Friday ... it took awhile to get organized after he got off work at 7pm .... had to stop into the Lodge Bar for a drink, and got talked into a shot of tequila :( ... then we finally walked to the other end of the island for dinner at Fidi's ... it's a seafood restaurant on the water .... we split a garlic shrimp dinner ... it was excellent shrimp ... not over cooked, and perfectly seasoned .... then back to Karaoke .... it was busy in there, with lots of locals, ... choosing 'spanish songs' .... i didn't even get to sing tonight :(
i think i called it quits around midnight ... leaving all my friends at the bar :)
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