Scuba Diving, Motorbiking and Communal Spas in Nah Trang

Scuba Diving, Motorbiking and Communal Spas in Nah Trang

We came to Nah Trang just for one last dip in the ocean in scuba gear but wound up staying three days relaxing and motorbiking around. The diving itself was pretty nice, though lots of the underwater area was sandy and our dives were cut short both times. By far …
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Finding Nemo on the Untouched Perhentian Islands

Finding Nemo on the Untouched Perhentian Islands

What better reason to leave the cool weather of the Highlands than for some scuba diving and time on a tropical island. The Perhentians are a pair of relatively untouched islands, the smaller of which is Long Beach where we stayed. It reminded Carrie and I of the Corn Islands …
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Scuba Diving: The Real Reason we Came to Bali

Scuba Diving: The Real Reason we Came to Bali

Our time in Ubud was actually broken into two segments. After a couple of days, we headed north to the black sand beach town of Lovina to do what we came here to do: scuba dive! Our first two dives were off the northwest coast next to the Menjangan islands …
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Living on a Boat and Scuba Diving With Manta Rays and a Whale Shark

Living on a Boat and Scuba Diving With Manta Rays and a Whale Shark

The Similan Islands off the Andaman (west) coast of Thailand is home to some of the best scuba diving in the world. One of the best ways to experience this is to live on a boat for a few days, which we were determined to do. Unfortunately, the rainy season …
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Aren’t We Supposed to be Relaxing Here? Then Why Are We Doing So Much Stuff!

Aren’t We Supposed to be Relaxing Here? Then Why Are We Doing So Much Stuff!

Despite being in paradise, we managed to keep ourselves busy. We went scuba diving twice and saw some of the most amazing corals either of us have ever laid eyes on and more fish than I have seen on any other dive in my life. At one point we encountered …
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Small Islands and Big Cities: This and That

Small Islands and Big Cities: This and That

During one day of scuba diving we swam through seas of jellyfish. No joke, hundreds of them at the surface. The craziest part was coming up from below and seeing a wall of pink ahead of us and knowing that we had to swim through it to get back onto …
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Shorts and Flip Flops in December…AKA, Florida Tales

Shorts and Flip Flops in December…AKA, Florida Tales

Five vacation days that don’t carry over to 2008 could mean only one thing…vacation time! Don’t worry, this email won’t be as epic as my usual ones since not as much crazy stuff happens when you’re in Florida with a rent-a-car. YAAAAR, SAID THE PIRATE I’m sure everyone has heard …
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