Hola!

Halloween here was pretty sweet. I didn´t know if it would be celebrated at all, but its actually pretty big. We went on a Booze Cruise one of the bars put on, and a bunch of us dressed up. My costume was a little weak (I just wore devil horns I found), but at least I tried. Some people went all out, and there were a lot of kids trick or treating. It wasn´t the same as Madison, but it was also nice that I could wear shorts and celebrate on a dock on the ocean.

Yesterday, we planned on going on a hike into the mangroves to explore and collect iguana food, but since the mosquitos are epically bad we decided to wait for another day. Last night´s and today´s rain will hopefully help that. So instead we continued clearing out and burning a brush pile. Starting fires is pretty fun, so I´m alright with that.

Later on I went snorkeling with a couple other volunteers. This was by far the best snorkel spot I´ve seen thus far, and will probably head back there again later this week. Its a bit far, and with 4 bikes that barely have breaks and gears, it is a little difficult to get to. The highlights were seeing a octopus and a baloon fish, which I have never seen before. Here´s a pretty picture:
On tuesdays a restaurant called the Wooden Spoon holds a fish talk, so we went to that again, this week´s subject was fish around Utila. Again, it was very interesting and the host insanely animated and enjoyed mimicing fish´s mating habits. They served lasagna and it was pretty good.

This morning, we measured and weighed a few of the adult iguanas. We tried to do it early before they were too active, but they were still pretty fiesty. They bite, but I´ve been lucky so far.


Here´s one of our few green iguanas, with only one arm:


In other news, I´ve been reading and hammocking a lot. I already finished Assassination Vacation, Fargo Rock City, Memories of my Melancholy Whores, Chapters 1-3 of the SCUBA dive textbook, and am almost done with a mediocre Agatha Christie book.

Random photo from a Bob Marley themed restuarant (Forrest Gump!):


(Photos take a long time to upload, one of these days I will put a lot up though)