Sharks?

So I've been on Utila for almost two weeks now and I am loving it here. Great people, great diving and finally, more great weather. For a week we had rain every single night due to the tropical storm that started on the Pacific side of Nicaragua.

For those of you who do not receive my email updates, it looks as if I am stick around this island for a good while. I completed my Open Water and Advanced in 5 days (4 in the water) and I am currently working on my Nitrox specialty (allows me to dive longer), my Emergency First Response and my Rescue Diver course. As I am a bit sick I am only doing the book work. As of Sunday, I'm pretty much diving every day except for maybe Thursday as we are organizing a pub crawl (10 bars) on Wednesday. I know Wednesday seems like an odd night, but its one of the crazy party nights here aside from Friday and Saturday. Conveniently, the bar I'm working at is closed Wednesdays. Definitely not a coincidence.

Sunday is Sunday Funday where we do two dives on the north side (wicked sites), cruise around looking for whale sharks and then go to the dive shops private beach for beach volleyball, BBQ, beer and rum games! Monday will be training dives for me, probably Nitrox as Tuesday we are doing a dawn dive as a going away party/gift for one of the guys here, Ben. Ben is also the one who has been nice enough to let me stay at his place for free until my apartment underneath him opens up. We should be descending into pitch black to hopefully see some hammerhead sharks during their feeding time. We are going to two of the best sites on the island and we'll be back by 8am!

I should begin my Dive Master Training next week which means I get to dive for free, jump on any boat that's going out and when I'm finished, I'm guaranteed a job as a ton of the staff are leaving and I've done all my training here!