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Whale Sharks

Last week Howard R. and I went to Bahia de los Angeles for a diving adventure and we had one.  The drive down was amazing.  It has rained in the cactus forest and even the Boojem trees are green. The town isn’t much but the people are wonderful the Hotel is clean and the diving is excellent. The Mini-Mall in Bahia Hotel and Restaurant   Costa del Sol  http://www.bahiadelosangeles.info/costa-del-sol.htm Diving and Snorkeling  Ricardo’s Diving Tours http://www.bahiadelosangeles.info/ricardo-arce.htm My YouTube video of the Whale Sharks:   We ran… Read More »Whale Sharks

Diving with Lions

Sea lions that is. Last November Howard and I went diving at Cabo Pulmo with Adriana of Saba Diving and a family from Canada.  The Dad, Michael, was taking underwater photos and I made him promise to send me some.  A month later he did but I missed the email with the link until last week when I was sorting old emails.  There are some great photos and the spectacular video you see above.  Howard is the diver at the beginning of the video and… Read More »Diving with Lions

Codgers Fiji 2011-5

So this is not my final post about the great diving trip to Fiji.  I’m still going to do a post about my trip to the Coral Coast and another one about life and politics in Fiji.  But this is the one with the long promised diving photos: Rock and I sans regs A clown fish in an anemone Some other very beautiful fish One of the Sharks The group photo at the awards banquet On the dive boat There are more photos on Flickr… Read More »Codgers Fiji 2011-5

Codgers Fiji 2011-4

This year the elusive Red Sea Horse was found and photographed by Sean Burke.  Betsy King and Sylvia Burke share the honor as co-discoverers. The Red Sea Horse sighting in Fiji The ruse was perfectly created by Simon’s great planting of the horse, Gene B’s excited discovery and Solo the divemaster’s figuring out what was going on and playing along.  Codger Dive Trips are a time when we can all be in 8th grade again

Codgers Fiji 2011-3

Sunset at Wananavu The tree in Rakiraki The Fiji coast from the dive boat Mike got ill enough to need to go to the clinic in Rakiraki the nearby market town.  There is no tourism industry nearby so I am stuck buying postcards at the resort gift shop.  Not a great selection and more than a dollar (US) each.  The diving is very good and the company is great. Yesterday we saw a 5′ reef shark and a school of barracuda.  The reef is fascination. … Read More »Codgers Fiji 2011-3

Wisdom

This one is from Bill B. one of the Codger Divers: “The difference between a magic trick and a miracle is that a magic trick is an illusion and a miracle is a delusion.”

Codgers Fiji 2011-2

This is a beautiful resort. Wananavu Resort at sunrise Ra Divers dive boat They named the special drink of the day Mr B’s Downfall in my honor. Underwater photos to follow.

Codgers Fiji 2011

Arriving at the Wananavu Resort. I sang with the welcome committee. Many more details to follow. More to follow.

Diving Baja

Howard and I did five dives in the Cabo San Lucas area.  Our dive master, organizer and driver was Adriana Manjarrez a young woman from Mexico City who has set up as a private diving service.  Her Company is  Saba Diving.  Highly recommended! The first day we did two shore dives at Bahia Santa Maria on the coast between San Jose and Cabo San Lucas.  The water was warm and the visibility was near 100 ft. See underwater pictures of what we saw. The second… Read More »Diving Baja

Bahia de Los Angeles the Back Story

I’ve written four prior posts about the trip Howard and I took to Bahia de Los Angeles and if your a glutton for punishment or really want to learn about this marvelous place you can find links to all of them here. But not everything I find interesting fits into four neat categories.  These are the other impressions: Lots of bird.  Especially “endangered” brown pelicans Beautiful desert-scapes.  This one is La Ventana.  The Window Roadside Art Cats in town. The dive shop Barone the boat… Read More »Bahia de Los Angeles the Back Story