Diving

Saba, Part III

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

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

Friday, March 24th, 2006

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

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

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

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

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

Monday, January 16th, 2006

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

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

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. [...]