‘Diving’ Archive

Saba, Part III

So I’ve been holding out on posting about Saba until I’m at home because all of my pictures are on our computer there. But I never seem to feel like posting when I get home after work, so I guess I’ll post some more, sans pictures, and then maybe do a big picture post after [...]

Adventures in Cairns, Part II

Before I start in on chapter 2 of the Great Cairns Adventure, I would just like to make a general observation. Here it is:
Do you know what I’m finding? I’m finding that the transition between school and job is a lot harder than I expected it to be. The uncertainty of everything is throwing me [...]

Viva la Reef

Schedule for the day:
7:30am: Depart for the Australia Zoo (the one the Crocodile Hunter runs)Between 9am and 1:30pm: Have picture taken with Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise that Darwin personally collected (in other words, a freaking old turtle)3pm: Arrive back in Brisbane5pm: Depart for Cairns
What’s Cairns, you ask? Only the port for all the liveaboards that [...]

Hello, my name is Kelly

Flashback to Saturday of last weekend.
D-day, as in “dive day.” I had joined a local dive shop’s dive club (“The Frog Divers”), and they go diving every Saturday morning. I showed up a little early and was promptly told by the shopowner to stay out of his way until dive time (in more or less [...]

Didgeridoos and didgeridon’ts

First of all, Alex, you have an identical voice twin who works at an auto parts shop in Wellington. I don’t know if he looks identical to you or not since I only talked to him on the phone. It was weird, dude–I think you may have a good twin.
Second of all, I went snorkeling [...]

Diving like a Kiwi

So I was looking around to see what there is to do in Wellington, since I will probably be required to hang around the city for a lot of my weekends. Turns out there’s a good bit of diving around there. In fact, just last month they sank a big frigate right off the coast. [...]