Day 06: Turtles and Wrecks

Started the day at El Aguila wreck, a 230 foot cargo ship that was salvaged from Utila and sunk in 1997 to form an artificial reef. Mother nature added its influence in the fall of 1998 with Hurricane Mitch that tore the ship into three pieces. Now it has settled and is protected by Lucy the resident Grouper and a large un-named Green Moray eel. We finished the dive off with a cool cave swim through. The second dive took us to Turtle Alley where we hung out with 'Crush' and several of his friends (aka: 4-5 Turtles for those that don't watch Cartoons).

Great dive in the shallow with multitudes of reef fish, juvenile and adult Spotted Drum fish and an amazing crustacean that looked like a piece of seaweed stuck to the coral.  Andy and Gary finished the afternoon off with a guided shore dive in front of Infinity Bay. We want to do some self guided night diving from shore, but there is only a narrow 3m passage through the reef to the outer wall, so you need to hire the local dive master for one dive to get the lay of the land. Looking forward to the night dive, after a family of lobsters and a Green Moray greeted us as we existed the passage. Back on land we had a lazy afternoon, but Noha managed to sneak in a few laps in the pool between afternoon showers.
We ended the evening with a great dinner at 'Bite on the Beach'.