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22 November 2025
Getting started Today, I have a day at sea on the surface, rather than underwater which was yesterday. I was picked up by a lovely Japanese guide at 0845 and dropped at their waterside office to pay, collect our snorkel gear and check my permit for being at sea in the area (which was obtained […]
21 November 2025
My dive operator “83 Palau Dive Center”, picked me up at 0810. The staff were largely mainland Chinese even thought the boss appeared Taiwanese. We picked up a few more guests before going out to the boat. Our first site Ulong Wall was a longish ride out. Here the coral was gorgeous. We saw giant […]
21 November 2025
My dive operator “83 Palau Dive Center”, picked me up at 0810. The staff were largely mainland Chinese even thought the boss appeared Taiwanese. We picked up a few more guests before going out to the boat. Our first site Ulong Wall was a longish ride out. Here the coral was gorgeous. We saw giant […]
20 November 2025
Getting started I slept for 12h, on and off, from 2100 till 0900. My sore throat seemed to have gone but I was still a little feverish, sweaty and had slight shivers. It is very fortunate that I have the day free from any activities at sea. In fact, I have nothing booked for the […]
19 November 2025
Leaving Taipei Today I will head to a new country, Palau, not that I’m on a quest to count countries. I woke a few times through the night before the 0615 alarm. Not a bad thing, as often I struggle to adapt flying from west to east and oversleep. Perhaps the fear of missing my […]
1 March 2020
A great tropical adventure I have to travel regularly from New Zealand to see Mum in Borneo. She is 93 this year. I often combine the visit with somewhere else in the world. After all, New Zealand is far from everywhere else, so when I travel I make the most of it! Back in August […]
21 June 2015
I set the alarm for 0630 in order to have breakfast at 0700, when it opened. I made my way to the main road to wait the bus to Nadi airport which was scheduled to go past at 0810. It arrived more or less on time. On the way, we made a couple of unscheduled […]
20 June 2015
I finally had good enough weather in Pacific Harbour to lie by the pool and enjoy the resort’s facilities. It gave me a chance to get out of the dorm room as well. I did have two dips in the pool and it was freezing. The sea, with the churned up sand wasn’t appealing enough. […]
19 June 2015
Introduction There are two outfits at Pacific Harbour that offer the Shark Dive experience where they feed the sharks underwater in front of the divers/customers. Beqa Adventure Divers is one outfit and the other is Aquatrek. I chose the former. In the back of my mind, there was the question of ethics. Should we be […]
19 June 2015
I woke at 0400 to go to the toilet. It was blowing a gale and I could hear it howl through the dorm. I had trouble getting back to sleep. By 0500, I could hear the birdsong and cicadas; I realised that was because the wind had died down. When the alarm rang at 0620, […]