Tag: GoPro
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Diving Bali
Our primary purpose in coming to Bali was to experience the diving here. We had heard it was fantastic and were not disappointed. We booked in with Blue Season Bali for a 12 day tour of the island with a total of 16 dives. I covered the first week of our trip in a previous…
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Diving Koh Samui, Thailand
We did a couple of days of diving while we were in Koh Samui. We had delayed our Thai diving experience until we got here because of its’ proximity to Koh Tao. We had heard the diving there was excellent. Our first day of diving was to a site called Sail Rock. Because it is…
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Diving South Australia
On a recent road trip between Melbourne and Adelaide we took the opportunity to do a couple of days of diving. In Geelong, just outside of Melbourne we went out for a single tank dive and a snorkel. To be honest, not the best diving we have done in a while. The operators were good…
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Diving on the Great Barrier Reef
Truly the highlight of our three weeks in the Cairns area of Queensland was three days spent on the live a board ‘Reef Encounter’. We were taken out to the Great Barrier Reef on a fast catamaran, then transferred over to the floating hotel. We were both very surprised and pleased at what we encountered…
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Things to do in Queensland
The last couple of months have been very busy with house sitting and visiting. However, luckily we have some great friends and family here in Queensland who have gone out of their way to share their backyard with us. The last touristy thing we did in the Brisbane area before heading north was to visit…
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Hawaii
First off, I have to say that I am not sure that a cruise ship is the best way to see the Hawaiian islands. Not to say I did not enjoy it, but it is a bit limiting and quite frankly a bit expensive to experience the islands from a cruise ship. We stopped at…
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Back to Diving
One of the biggest thrills for us being back in Belize is the chance to do some fantastic diving. Our dive operator of choice is Belize Pro Dive Center. There are some excellent companies on the island, but of the few we have tried these guys and gal are the best. Part of the excitement…
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Diving Bocas del Toro, Panama
One of our goals in visiting Bocas del Toro was to check out the diving here. It had been several months since we had been diving so we were very much looking forward to the outing. There are not a ton of dive shops in Bocas, but as we walked around town sticking our heads…
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Zip Lining in Monteverde
We decided to check out one of the many adventure activities available in Costa Rica. We contacted a small local tour company, Arenas Travel, http://www.arenastravelcr.com to set things up for us. The day started out wonderfully, with the tour company van picking us up just down the street from where we were staying and then…
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Photo opportunities beneath the waves off Roatan
We have just completed a week of diving on the Barrier Reef off of Roatan, Honduras. The weather was fantastic and so was the resort we were diving with. The staff and equipment at Anthony’s Key Resort were first rate. I would like to tip my hat to our Dive Master, Calderon, and the Boat’s…