I had to leave Indonesia in the middle of my divemaster training in order to renew my visa, having inadvertently entered the country with a 30-day visa that couldn’t be renewed. Actually, this turned out to be a good thing, as it provided for an …
After two months of diving in Indonesia’s Komodo National Park for my Divemaster certification I leave Labuan Bajo, Flores and take a 1.5-hour flight on a prop plane to the island of Bali, where my return flights to the US will originate. I’ll have an …
This is the second of two posts with photographs from a dive at Tatawa Kecil, in Komodo National Park. The dive was on the west side of this small island, in the photo below, during a transition of tidal currents. As I noted in the …
This is the first of two posts sharing underwater photography from one particularly nice dive at Tatawa Kecil, in Komodo National Park. We were able to dive on the west side of the small island (see the photo just below) during a transition of tidal …
On the west side of Siaba Besar island in Komodo National Park there’s a dive site that has a sandy bay and a big reef formation extending up from the deeper adjacent channel. Green sea turtles abound at this site, and it’s easy to spot …
Manta rays are large, graceful creatures – elegant and ballet-like in their movements. Their wingspan is up to 18 feet (5.5 meters) in the manta species that is most often found in Komodo National Park (Manta alfredi). On a dive earlier this week we were …
I came to this part of Indonesia, near Komodo National Park, to get a scuba divemaster certification with instructors Sylvain (French) and Samira (Swiss), whom I met last year on a dive vacation. The park, a World Heritage Site consisting of islands and surrounding seas, …
At the point where Labuan Bajo’s main street turns a corner along the waterfront there is a fish market in a large open building. Adjacent to the market new construction and street improvements are beginning to transform the old-village nature of the area. A new …
I’ve been in a small town in Indonesia near Komodo National Park since early September, working on becoming certified as a scuba Divemaster. I met my dive instructors, Sylvain (French) and Samira (Swiss), last year on a dive trip in the Maldives, and have joined …
I want to share some photos of old cars in Centro Habana, ones that are unlike the restored-looking classics you see in parts of town, but first let me say a bit about classic cars generally in Cuba. Most of you probably know that Havana …