A nice week in Little Corn Island

We spent a nice week in Little Corn Island just relaxing, scuba diving a little bit (5 dives each), swimming, walking, eating good food with nice company. Scuba diving was ok, we saw for example lots of nurse sharks which we haven't seen before :) We dove with Dolphin dive shop which was really good, very friendly staff and well organized. As we are now divemasters, the scuba diving was only 25 USD / tank (10 USD cheaper).

We were considering to stay longer on the Little Corn Island but two of the neighbouring bungalows in our place were robbed so we decided to leave that day. It kind of killed the mood. Other robbery happened while our friends were sleeping. Somebody (locals knew immediately who it was) came inside from the window and took all their cash. We have been lucky so far but I felt very sorry for them. Apparently also two other joints in the island got robbed the same night by the same guy. Later we heard the culprit had done this before many times. And to further solidify our decision to leave, the assholes brother was a known rapist! The rapist brother actually came to the “crime scene” to comment something about his brothers doings. Btw. Elsa has a night watchman on premises but he was sleeping... or as we are pretty sure, in on the deal... This kind of things pisses us off but what can you do. The locals at the little corn island seemed disturbed and angry, but then again the asshole had done this many times before and they can't seem to do anything to stop it even though the guy had spent many times in jail.

Oh well, we are off the small island and waiting to get a flight from Big Corn Island (which is pretty lame compared to the small one). We have to stay here until saturday before there is space in the flight. We plan to leave Nicaragua immediately by bus when getting to Managua and stay in Honduras for one night before taking a bus/boat to Belize. It should be the safest of all the Central American countries and provide pretty good diving.

-Olli & Maija