I think its fair to say that scuba diving really has taken over this year. Every holiday I’ve been on has been focussed on diving and almost every weekend during the summer was spent diving somewhere on the South coast of England. Its been a very varied year. From the first dive of the year in January whilst on a liveaboard in Egypt to the last – a cold December day diving in Plymouth.
The turning point was joining two London based dive clubs, Big Squid and Clidive, both of which …
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A selection of my favourite photos that I have taken whilst diving this year.
A turtle eating coral. Egypt, October 2011.
Long nosed hawkfish hiding in coral. Egypt, October 2011.
Batfish. Egypt, October 2011.
Blue spotted stingray. Egypt, October 2011.
Nudibranch. Borneo, April 2011.
Lionfish. Mabul, April 2011.
White tip reef shark. Sipadan, April 2011.
Starfish. Egypt, January 2011.
Cuttlefish. Gran Canaria, March 2011
The photos from Egypt in October were taken with a Canon S95 in a FIX housing with a FIX UWL-04 Fisheye lens and a INON S2000 strobe. The rest were taken with a Panasonic Lumix TZ7 …
Last weekend I found myself in Gran Canaria visiting family so took the opportunity to get a few dives in. The El Cabron marine park is reputed as having some of the best dive sites in Gran Canaria and Davy Jones Diving dive their daily.
A ten minute drive south of Las Palmas airport is Arinaga which is where Davy Jones Diving are based. The diving in El Cabron would be my first experience of shore diving, all my previous dives have been from boats, so I was excited about this …
Since I returned to the UK 6 weeks ago updates have been few and far between and for that I apologise. A lot has happened over the last few weeks and my circumstances are now entirely different.
When my Dad met me at Glasgow airport I was in a wheelchair. For the next few weeks I barely left my parent’s house. I hobbled around on crutches but generally found it easier to just stay seated. Over time it did get easier. I started walking short distances with one crutch and then …
Following my post about being screwed over by World Nomads due to their handling of my insurance claim following my hospitalisation in New Zealand, the General Manager of World Nomads, Chris Noble, posted a comment stating that he would investigate my claim for me.
Chris contacted the underwriters in the UK and came to the conclusion that they had, in his opinion, made the correct decision to not send me back to the UK based upon the wording of my insurance policy. In his correspondence with me however, it transpired that …
When choosing travel insurance you want a company that you can trust will provide you with assistance when you need it the most, one that is easy to make claims with whilst abroad and one which will be quick to help. I chose World Nomads, firstly because they were recommended by Lonely Planet and secondly because so many other travel bloggers have recommended them. Unfortunately I made a bad choice.
I have spent close to three weeks in Auckland City Hospital following an ankle injury the result of which is a …
During the last eight months, the longest that I had spent in any one place was ten days on Koh Tao in Thailand when I was learning to dive, that was true until I arrived in Auckland. In total I have spent just under three weeks in Auckland and I haven’t actually seen any of the city. I arrived in the evening, checked into the hostel and then got on the bus to Auckland City Hospital where I have spent a total of 17 days.
It all started at Mount Cook …
Maori statue, Kaikoura, New Zealand.
After a very long bus journey from Byron Bay I finally reached Sydney, my last stop in Australia. I don’t usually like big cities, but I really enjoyed spending two days wandering around Sydney.
King’s Cross
Bars, clubs and strip clubs fill the streets of the sleazy King’s Cross.
The Rocks
The Rocks is the site of the first European settlement in Sydney. The narrow streets that once housed factories and warehouses are now filled with markets and pubs aimed at tourists.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
I had considered doing the bridge climb, but at almost $200 …
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