After a long flight, and 2 days of no diving due to foul weather, I finally got to do 8 dives over 4 days at Tiger Beach in the Bahamas with Epic Diving. The experience was awesome. Though I generally prefer “natural,” IOW unexpected and unprompted, encounters, being able to get this close and even […]
Dive 1: Monad Shoal Dive 2: Kimud Shoal Dive 3: Gato Island Tunnel Dive 4: Gato Island South Day 9, Dive 1 & 2: Captiancillo Island
Dive 1 & 2: Kimud Shoal – Thresher Sharks, Video Only Dive 3: Malapascua Island Dive 4: Malapascua Island Night
Dive 1: Paradise Garden, Bohol Island Dive 2: Turtle Point Dive 3: Lamanok
Dive 1 & 2: Mantigue Island Dive 3: Jigdup Shoal Dive 4: Soul House Reef
Dive 1 & 2: Mantigue Island Dive 3: Barias Shoal Dive 4: Soul House Reef, Magting Looc
Dive 1: Napaling, Panglao Island Dive 2: Alona’s Wreck Dive 3: Dalit-Dakit Dive 4: Mangrove
Dive 1: Oslob, Cebu Whale Sharks (Video only, no lights allowed) Dive 2: Sumilon Island North Dive 3: Summer Camp (360 video only, coming soon)
Dive 1: Black Forest, Balicsag Island Dive 2: Diver’s Heaven, Balicsag Island Dive 3: Davao Wall, Pangloa, Bohol Dive 4: Soul House Reef, Magting Looc
I recently returned from an amazing live-aboard dive trip to the Philippines with the Philippines Aggressor. The trip was excellent on every level. I will start this series with all of the above water shots: untouched and unedited, unlike my underwater pictures that I take a bit more seriously 🙂
So my wife, Rosa, finally got me to go on a cruise. I had always wanted to do the Alaska Inside Passage cruise including Glacier Bay, so my wife, who likes the long sea crossings, convinced me to do this cruise where we spend 4 days around Hawaii, then 5 days crossing to Alaska, then […]
Back in Cabo san Lucas with a day to kill, so I might as well dive again. If you are not a partier, there is nothing to do here on land but eat and sleep, best I can tell. So I went out with SeeCreatures again, the sister company for the Nautilus live aboard company. […]
For our last day of diving, we went to The Boiler, a submerged seamount that is just off San Benedicto Island. This again is supposed to be the place for the giant Mantas, and it did not disappoint. For these dives I used the SportDiver housing with the 2500 and 5000+ lights.
Roca Partida is a small “parted rock” covered in guano that juts up from the deep ocean floor. Due to many boats around the small area, we could only do 3 dives here so as to not over stress the small environment. This was supposed to be the place for multiple Manta Rays, but I […]
The second stop on the trip was Socorro Island, the biggest island and the only active volcanic island in the archipelago currently. We spent 2 days here at two different sites: Cabo Pearce and Punta Tosca, and did a total of 7 dives. This is where we started to see the giant Manta Rays. There […]
On February 16th, we arrived at San Benedicto Island in the Revillagigedo Archipelago after a 24 hour boat journey from Cabo San Lucas, Baja Sur, Mexico. The crossing was not too bad for me, but a few folks got seasick. The night sky on the open ocean was, as expected, spectacular. The boat is the […]
2nd day of local diving in Cabo San Lucas. Brr. The water is cold here. Had some great Humpback Whale viewing from the boat (no pics). I used the SportDiver housing on this dive with 2500 and 5000+ lights.
So a break from Maui diving. I am heading out on a live aboard trip to Socorro Island, Mexico, with the Nautilus Belle Amie. I leave this evening, Tuesday Feb 14. But I arrived in Cabo on Sunday, so I had a couple of days to dive locally in Cabo, and I have an hour […]
For our last full day on Tahiti, I went on a 1 hour Jet Ski tour (did not bring camera) where we just cruised around and spotted some dolphins and looked for whales (did not find any). Then I finally did something I had been hoping to do for the whole trip and that was […]
A day trip to Bora Bora was no small thing. Had to be at the airport for a 7 am hour long flight. The Bora Bora airport is on a separate islet, so you must take a ferry to wherever you want to go on/around Bora Bora. We had to meet a small charter boat […]
I did 3 days of morning dives with Top Dive, the dive operation on the resort property. They, and the dives, were fantastic. Coral is very similar to Hawaii, no big soft corals, but seems to be in much better shape. There is a greater variety and abundance of fish, however. I had a camera […]
The Island of Tahiti is commonly used for the name of the country, but actually Tahiti is the name of the biggest Island of the country French Polynesia. This vacation was more of a relax-in-a-resort type of vacation, where the main attraction for me was the scuba diving. So that’s what the large majority of […]
All the pictures and videos in one place Lion Cheetah Leopard Serval Cat Elephant Giraffe Hippo Zebra Hyena and Jackal Wildebeest (Gnu) Cape/African Buffalo Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle Impala Topi, Eland, Klipspringer, Dikdik, and Coke’s Hartebeest Ostrich Hooded, white backed, lappet faced, and Ruppel’s griffon vulture Bataleur, tawny and black chested snake eagle Verreaux’s eagle […]
Being home now and looking over what I posted, I realize it was a very forensic overview of the animals I saw and not much on what the experience meant for me or my interactions with the people of Tanzania. To be honest, other than the safari guides and the staff at the lodges and […]
Although it was very sad to end my safari, I know that the many amazing things I saw and experienced are now permanently burned into my memory… assuming I never suffer from some degenerative brain disease in my dotage. Plus I was looking forward to my first dives in the Indian Ocean and just relaxing […]