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NEWS NEWS NEWS ***
My next Scuba trip with Scuba Travel is for Indonesia Bali/Komodo National Park liveaboard in June 2025 aboard Solitude Adventurer.
Last October's 2024 Thailand liveaboard 'The Phinisi' blog is now clmplete.
Also see the new Dive Summary (link above) which lists the highlights of my many dives.
More on the Komodo National Park liveaboard to come after my trip. June is the hot season so I'll be sure to take my sun screen :-))
I completed two libeaboards in 2024 (Egypt and Thailand) in quick succession, adding in total 36 dives to my tally and taking me over the 600 dives marker. Both liveaboards were, in my opinion, of an extremely high standard in terms of vessel, crew and dive guides, food, accommodation and dive interest, and I can highly recommend both with the operators I went with. See the dive blogs for details.
A trip to Mexico in June 2023 was a bit of a disaster, I only got one dive in whilst I was there. I had hoped for 3 days of diving with Blue Experience, a dive company I have used before, however they have changed hands so I didn't recognise anyone. There had been some bad weather on the days preceding my dives and the harbour was closed, hence no dives, but I did manage to get one dive only.
It was a little bit annoying really, because I have already told them I would be interested in a trip over to Cozumel but, first it was on, then it was off, then it was on again and they sent me an email asking me if I was interested - duh. By the time I got the email and said yes, they had already let the space go to someone else. Why they didn't ring me I do not know.
Gozo. Loss of an iconic natural feature.
The image on the right is the Blue Hole and Azure Window on Gozo. Sadly the Azure Window is no longer there, destroyed by a storm on 9th March 2017 at 9:40am. Both the limestone arch and the stacks on either side of it are gone. A sad loss of a natural beauty site for everyone.
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