We rise early. It’s 6:30am but the roosters have been crowing all night. I shake Val; she squirms in protest…
Category: Indonesia
It’s January 2011 and Val and I have been in Komodo, Indonesia for six months. Today we guided four Ukrainians and…
What a difference a few weeks make. We’ve accomplished so much and acclimated to the rhythm of life in a dive…
Our first weeks have gone by in a blur. We’ve completed exams, spent hours mercilessly repeating skills, and above all…
Val and I are becoming PADI Divemasters. For those of you that don’t scuba dive a divemaster is basically a professional dive…
Arriving at the airport in Labuan Bajo was encouraging. Despite the poetic soliloquies we’d heard about the diving here, not…
…and then suddenly we found ourselves in Bali, the most touristy area in Indonesia, and we would quickly find out…
As we began readying ourselves to leave Yogyakarta it became clear that getting to Bali was going to be a…
This particular destination was not originally on our SE Asia radar of things to do, but a landslide covering a…
Here’s the evidence of our underwater escapades in the Togean Islands, courtesy of our divemaster. Those of you that know…
The Togean Islands are a collection of limestone plots huddled in a large peninsula formed by North and Central Sulawesi. …
***I had to make this photos very small to get them uploaded, which is unfortunate because they have lost a…
Pulau Bunaken is a small island off the Northeast coast of the Sulawesi, Indonesia. We’re here for only one reason…
Welcome to the jungle baby!! Arriving in Bukit Lawang (Boo-keet Lu-wang) after a very long travel day, we were snagged…
Orangutans are critically endangered. Their biggest threat is the ever growing palm oil industry. Palm oil is used in countless…
Banda Aceh definitely deserves its own post. Banda Aceh was the epicenter of of the earthquake that caused the 2004…
Well we’re back in Kuala Lumpur and finally have reliable internet. Here are the photos from Pulau Weh, Sumatra, Indonesia…
We’re still in Pulau Weh for one more day. Next we’re off to search for Orangutans in Gunung Leusur National…
Hey Everyone, The internet has been a bit dodgy. We were completely unaffected by the Earthquakes near Padang, and equally…
Well, we did it! We are officially Advanced Open Water Divers. The class was not super challenging but we got…