The Town

The main town on the island is officially known as East Harbour, but everyone refers to it as Utila. It has a population of 2500 and very few streets. Most everything is along Main Street, which parallels the shore, with a couple of streets that head away from the waterfront.

This the main intersection in town where you'll find the ferry dock, City Hall, restaurants, bars, dive shops, stores, real estate agents, churches and banks.

For the most part, the town is quite clean, with the occasional junky lot here and there, or a rusted out bulldozer sitting across the street from a restaurant on main street.

Wal-Mart.

Zellers.

The research institute dedicated to the largest fish in the seas -- the whale shark. We never saw a whale shark other than the one on this building, but if you wanted to, Utila is the place to go. This building is also a part of the Bay Islands College of Diving -- the dive shop that we chose.

Luckily, we never needed to shop here.

There are also some nice quaint houses tucked away near the back of town.