See you later, Utila!

After a fun-filled and busy 5 weeks on the Island of Utila, we said goodbye to some good friends and a lovely place! 

We rented a golf cart and drove around the island for an afternoon, did some fun stuff and ate some great food!  On top of it, I did some really nice and relaxing diving!  The best part, however, were the two weeks we spent with six people that were guests at the lodge - a group of 4 (two couples from Montana) and a couple from Mississipi.  The couple from Mississipi were Steve and Marlo - Steve is a professional wildlife photographer (some of his incredible photos at http://www.kirkpatrickwildlife.com/ ) - these two were hilarious and were full of wonderful and incredible stories.  We've been saying "y'all" alot since we met them :o)

The Montana four-some was Pat and her husband Kurt, and their close friends, Bruce and Joyce.  While everyone was super nice and really funny, it was truly inspirational to meet Joyce and Bruce.  Joyce lost the use of her legs in a car accident over 25 years ago, but after the accident, learned to scuba dive and ride horses.  She is one of the most positive people I've ever had the privelage of meeting, and I assisted her and her group in scuba diving...it was truly amazing to share with someone who's normally confined to a wheel chair the experience of freedom underwater.  The last week at the lodge was nowhere near as fun without the Group of 6. 

With the owner of Utila Lodge, Kisty, during karaoke night!

Wandering around the Jade Seahorse

really neat little lizard on a wander around the island

Lots of these cool (and big!) spiders

the beautiful surf

a wander through an abandoned hotel, now known as "the bat cave"

a side building of the bat cave

leaf cutter ants, doing their thing!