Deserted on an Island

By Nick Lewis Published in The Ottawa Citizen on November 10, 2008 I hadn't seen my girlfriend in two months, not since she began a four-month backpacking trip through Central America. What better place to reunite, we thought, than on our own tropical island in the Caribbean? I flew into La Ceiba, Honduras, where I met my girlfriend, who travelled to La Cieba via Guatemala. From this sleepy city we took a one-hour ferry out to the island of Utila, known among backpackers for the cheapest scuba diving on the continent. There, we were picked up by an affable, laid-back gentleman with a lilting Creole accent who would take us to Sandy Cay island. "We've had this place in our family since the '30s," Barry Jackson said in his cheerful sing-song manner over the sputtering of the boat engine. "And we been renting it out since the '70s to people...