Category Archives: Travels

Benefits of Scuba Diving for more than a week

Posted on November 5, 2017 by debbie

Tonight over supper of Chicken Pesto Pasta for Murray and Garlic Shrimp for me, we discuss the benefits of going on a scuba diving trip that is longer than one week. Our usual time frame for a dive trip is … Continue reading →

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Diving in Bonaire

Posted on November 4, 2017 by debbie

We shore dive up and down the west coast of Bonaire. The diving is very doable for all levels of divers and there is lots to see. The south has more soft corals. Sea Fans and Sea Plumes and Swollen-Knob … Continue reading →

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An eel of a day!

Posted on November 3, 2017 by murray

Today is a day for eels. We have not seen many in the four days we have been diving. Today we see five, three smaller and two huge! Murray and I are swimming back towards our marker point on our … Continue reading →

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The People We Meet

Posted on November 2, 2017 by debbie

When we do boat diving or go on a liveaboard, we meet and talk to the same people for a few days or even a week. We get to know folks, even develop friendships with them. Shore diving, with just … Continue reading →

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Debbie’s “Process”

Posted on November 1, 2017 by murray

Accountant/Engineer, no matter how free floating, there is still quite a bit of rigidity in that brain. Diving could be a matter of life and death so to make sure we are set each time we dive, Debbie works out … Continue reading →

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3 am wake up call and wonderful diving…..

Posted on October 31, 2017 by murray

MEEEEH, MEEEEH, MEEEEH, MEEEEH, MEEEEH. WHAT THE F**K IS THAT? Emergency. An emergency is always good at 3am. Keeps you on the edge, you know. I don’t think we have ever been out of bed so fast. It is good … Continue reading →

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First Day of Shore Diving on Bonaire

Posted on October 30, 2017 by debbie

Every diver coming to dive Bonaire has to do a briefing and check out dive before going out on his or her own. We arrive at AB Dive for 9:00 and get filled in on on “dos and don’ts”. Easy. … Continue reading →

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Purgatory

Posted on October 29, 2017 by debbie

The flight from Toronto to Curacao goes smoothly. As we are landing, Murray says, we are 50% to Bonaire. And I reply, well, aren’t we more like 95%? After all, we only have a couple of hours to wait in … Continue reading →

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Oooooom

Posted on October 28, 2017 by murray

Travel mode. We are on our way to Toronto today and then to Curacao and Bonaire tomorrow. I said it to myself on the way to the airport but things still get to me. Yesterday Debbie printed out our boarding … Continue reading →

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Camping in mid September

Posted on October 21, 2017 by debbie

Sitting at our picnic table in site # 64 in Murray Doell Campground, watching the loons swim by on the lake, I realize that it is extremely quiet. No people noise, no traffic noise, no human noises. Just nature. The … Continue reading →

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