| PLACES
with strange sounding names
where I have stayed |
| Click on underscored name to go to narative. |
| AUSTRALIA |
Cairns (pronounced cans)is the jumping off point for diving the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef |
| BELIZE |
Belize is an English speaking country with a parlimentary government and their dollar is tied to the US dollar - $2.00BZ = $1.00US. The best diving is out around the three atolls: Turneffe, Lighthouse and Glovers. |
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Black Bird Caye |
This is a small, all inclusive resort, on an island on the east side of Turneffe Atoll. |
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Lighthouse |
The famous Blue Hole is in Lighthouse Atoll. Long Caye in the southern end of the Atoll is being developed. This is where I will live part time. |
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San Pedro Town |
The cental resort area for divers as well as non-divers is on Ambergris Caye. Here is where I have made many friends and will live part time. |
| BONAIRE |
Bonaire is noted for its spectacular diving accessible from shore and has protected it's dive sites by allowing no achoring. There are moorings at all dive sites. |
| CALIFORNIA |
Cold water kelp diving is like nothing else in the world. |
| FIJI |
The tiny fish fill the water the way confetti fills the air in a New York ticker tape parade. |
| FLORIDA |
Key Largo is the center of the keys diving activity, |
| HAWAII |
I've spent time on three of the five main islands. |
| MALAYSIA |
To swim into a school of Baracuda that stretches as far as you can see in three directions is awesome and only one of the many wonders to be experienced. |
| MEXICO |
Cozumel |
Originally famous for its drift diving it now is more noted for the many cruise ships that dock daily. |
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Puerto Vallarta |
About halft the population are expats or snowbirds; people who live half the year in PV and the other half in the cold country, mostly Canada. |
| PALAU |
With reef hooks firmly planted in rocks, a line of divers flap on the end of 5' ropes, looking like banners at a used car lot. |
