Útila

Utila is to the west of Roatan and tends to be slightly cheaper, catering to the plethora of backpackers who inundate the island.   It is has a completely different lifestyle, void of large resorts, that suits the casual traveller and scuba diver student. Must see dive sites in Utila are Spotted Bay, Duppy Waters,  CJs Dropoff, Blackish Point, Joshua’s Swash, Great Wall, and Black Hills.  Your dive shop in Utila as well as world class resorts offers over 100 potential dive sites keeping your diving Honduras interesting. Utila lie off the Honduras mainland and along the world’s second largest barrier reef. Roatan is home to one of the Caribbean’s largest wrecks, the 300’ freighter, the Odyssey. Whalesharks, manta rays and dolphins are more commonly encountered in Utila’s waters where the continental shelf drops vertically to over 3,300 feet.