I joined Ride Expeditions for ten days of riding by motorcycle in northern India, mostly through Spiti Valley, high in the Himalayas. The remote area is in the state of Himachal Pradesh, bordered by Tibet to the east and the disputed Kashmir region to the …
In Labuan Bajo most days we were out on the dive boat. There weren’t many opportunities to take photographs at the end of the day, when the sun was setting in the west and its strong warm light was angling low toward the port’s wharf, …
During my two months in Labuan Bajo I got up early almost every day, usually by 5:30, to walk down through its busy port. There we boarded the dive boat and headed off on the long trip to Komodo National Park for a day of …
I spent an afternoon photographing boats and activity in the Labuan Bajo port from which our dive boat operated. The port can accommodate several large cargo vessels or ferries on its outermost wharf, along with a hundred or more smaller wooden fishing and tourist boats …
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 …