Tag: diving
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Rapa Nui – Easter Island
Easter Island Flag First off, I would like to send a huge thank you to Lisa whom we met in Mexico City and talked us into visiting Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as we’ve learned is the preferred name. It was never on our itinerary for South America but we are so glad we made…
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4 Countries, 4 Months
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Karen and I had a bit of discussion on what to talk about in this blog on our travels in Asia. It has been an absolutely unmitigated success and that makes it all the more challenging to try and summarize it. Through we have been treated to some incredible food during our time in Asia,…
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Diving Dauin
For our final week of diving in the Philippines we headed south to Dauin at the southern tip of the island of Negros. One thing about travelling around the Philippines is it takes time. The 30 minute boat ride, followed by a 7 hour drive, another 30 minute boat ride and ending with a 30…
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Diving Malapascua
If you read any number of scuba diving publications sooner or later you hear about Malapascua, Philippines. This certainly played a part in making it our first stop in our initial exploration of the Philippines. There is a reason it shows up in so many articles, it is awesome. While I was putting together the…
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Enjoying Okinawa
Our decision to visit Okinawa was two fold. One, we wanted to see a bit of Japan from the north to the south, and second was we had heard the diving was excellent here. Happy to report we had great success on both counts. We went for walk down to the waterfront promenade one evening…
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Okinawa Diving
There is more to share, but for now, here is just a taste of our diving on Okinawa, Japan. Choosing a dive shop in a new country is always a bit of a gamble, but once again we came up winners with Okinawa 39ers. Quality equipment and outstanding staff made our diving here a great…
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Diving Jeju Island, South Korea
Once we arrived on Jeju Island for our 4 week house sit we started checking out in more detail what we might do while we were here. As it turns out there is a fairly healthy diving community and to top it off dives are reasonably priced, so we were in. This was also the…
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A Month on Jeju Island
We have been fortunate enough to have secured a 4 week house sit on Jeju Island off the south coast of South Korea. This is much more our style and speed of enjoying an area. We are loving our time here. The current heat wave makes it a bit challenging but still a wonderful place.…
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Feliz Navidad
Our last week in Puerto Morelos has been a hectic one. But it also has been an intensely satisfying one. We enjoyed our last day of diving cenotes, then had our two sons and daughter-in-law join us for the week around Christmas. It truly was Feliz Navidad. Once the diving was done we headed to…
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Introduction to Mexico
We have been to Mexico a couple of times previously, however the last trip was for a wedding 20 years ago and previous to that was a surprise birthday trip for my 40th birthday. The key part was both trips involved staying at an all inclusive resort. Don’t get me wrong, we had an absolute…