ADVENTURES ON LAND AND UNDER THE SEA

There isn’t really all that much to tell about this week. Every day follows the same routine: 6.00: wake up & first breakfast 6.30: dive brief, gear up & dive 1 8.00: second breakfast 10.00: dive brief, gear up & dive 2 12.15: lunch 2.00: dive brief, gear up & dive 3 4:00: ‘snack’ (really more of a second lunch - it’s usually pizza, a range of meat and bread or one day, burgers and chips!) 5.30: night dive brief, gear up & dive 4 7.15: dinner …. Most of us in bed asleep by 9/

My first experience of Luton airport was quite favourable - cheaper parking than Gatwick and also the ‘new’ rule where you don’t have to get your liquids or anything out of your bag anymore. Seems to just be Heathrow we haven’t modernised to that system yet! After a deliciously overpriced airport breakfast, I persuaded the waitress to fill my flask with boiling water, despite her confusion at the request and of course then set about adding my own teabag and milk sachet. Much

The second half of our holiday has been filled with attempts as sightseeing, much resting on the beach and plenty more eating! On Tuesday, we decided to go and see some of the island’s sights and headed off in the snazzy car for a drive through Fuerteventura’s top attraction - Dumas de Corralejo sand dunes national park. To be fair, it is quite an amazing landscape and very cool with 26km sq of yellow sand dunes that meet the beach and have a little road running through. We w

A closed motorway or two and a particularly long and winding country road, the odd down pour and a rainbow finally got us to Gatwick. After a delicious dinner, we retired to our bedroom early ready for a very early start on Saturday. Sam seemed to forget the ‘no tv on holiday’ rules but it was ok because we were still in England. Not only did we manage to avoid an inflight tea crisis, I even discovered while enjoying our airport ‘Spoons breakfast that they have upgraded from

The final two days of diving comprised mostly of hunting, unsuccessfully, for the mola mola. We went to the places they are known to...

From the beach in Bali, I could look across the reef and the waves and see Nusa Penida, my next destination. I had my boat and taxi...

Back on the coast, in the sunshine and originally with the idea of taking 5 days to just do very little aside from enjoy the beach....

July and August are smack bang in the middle of the dry season here so it’s rained for the vast majority of the time I’ve been in Ubud!...

Having seen some of the islands, done some diving and experienced the local ‘culture’ of Manado, I decided to venture a bit further...

My time on the jungle island drew to close and I moved to my next spot. Still in Sulawesi but this time based back on the main island, in...

Another school holiday, another trip to Indonesia. It’s becoming a bit of a pattern but not one I mind at all! I was all set up with well...

Having written the last blog and set it to upload and publish (a lengthy process), I trotted off along the beach to get a tea. Stopping...

The strap line for the resort is ‘remote … and worth it’. Remote, is definitely right. To get here, you need to fly into one of the main...

Our final days of diving in Raja Ampat did not disappoint. We returned to one of the local village islands and dived off the jetty there....

On the trip continues … in much the same vain as it started…. We dive 3-4 times a day, seeing all the delights that Raja Ampat has to...

Here I am, back aboard the Lady Denok live aboard for 9 nights cruising and diving around Raja Ampat. The first part of our trip is in...

48 hours, 3 flights, 4 time zones and various stops en route and I have finally arrived ready for destination one of my trip to...

Thursday The trip continues with 3-4 dives a day, which start with a 6.15 wake up call then tend to follow the routine of dive, get fed,...

Very brief patch of WiFi to upload the adventures so far …. Not only did I make it all the way from my house to Heathrow and to the...

Friday: Sometimes being on holiday can be terribly stressful and exhausting. The ladies clean my room each day and when I get back and...