Category: Travel
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Lobster Diving La Jolla’s Marine Street Beach, California
Tuesday evening I met up with the Power Scuba folks for a recon shore dive at Marine Street Beach in La Jolla. Someone got the fine idea that this site might be a good spot for lobster diving when the season opens in the winter, so we went down to check it out. It was…
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Diving San Diego’s Wreck Alley and Kelp Forest
I spent Memorial Day diving with my friends at San Diego dive boat Marissa Charters in Wreck Alley and the Point Loma kelp beds. It’s always nice to be out on the boat, but Monday was amazing! We had great weather topside and pretty good visibility out on our dives! HMCS Yukon HMCS Yukon is a…
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Scuba Diving Fiji’s Viti Levu!
Fiji is home to some of the world’s best dive sites. When the currents pick up, the soft corals “bloom” into a breathtakingly colorful display, earning the islands the title of “the soft coral capital of the world.” A direct flight away from Los Angeles, Viti Levu, the biggest Fijian island, is one of the…
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The Dirty Lamb -or- “In which our heroine falls asleep, and wakes up at a petting zoo in Utah”
If I had a superpower, it would be “can sleep in cars and planes indefinitely, especially if it is sunny.” We drove to Park City, Utah last Friday for a long weekend ski trip with friends. It’s actually not that bad a drive from San Diego–it took ten-ish hours, and a good portion of the…
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Diving Nassau, Bahamas: David Tucker Wreck and the Hollywood Bowl
Our last dive day in Nassau brought sunny, tropical weather once again. However, the ocean had not yet recovered from the storm, and strong currents, coupled with compromised visibility, made diving a little bit difficult. The David Tucker was donated by the Royal Bahamas Defense Force to become an artificial reef. It sits in…
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Diving Nassau, Bahamas: The BBC Wreck
Bahamas BBC Wreck In September of 2007, the BBC, with assistance from Stuart Cove’s, purchased and scuttled an old tugboat to study the colonization of artificial reefs for their series “Life.” A contest was held to name the boat, and the winners (a couple from Arizona) won a chance to dive on the newly-sunk wreck,…
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Diving Nassau, Bahamas: Shark Diving
My favorite dive from our entire trip was the Caribbean reef shark feed. It was the perfect Valentine’s Day gift from my husband! We dove with Stuart Cove’s, a dive operator known both for Bahamas shark diving and the underwater production of many major Hollywood films, such as Flipper, Jaws: The Revenge, Into the Blue,…
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Diving Nassau, Bahamas: More Tropical Fish (and other critters)
Barracuda hunt primarily by sight, and are therefore sometimes attracted to shiny objects, as they might resemble the scales of prey fish. I’ve sometimes had barracuda follow my camera around, presumably because they were interested in the flashes of light from my strobes. This was not one such fish. It wanted nothing to do…
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Diving Nassau, Bahamas: Tropical Fish
Just a few of the tropical fish we saw in the Bahamas… Gray Angelfish: Trumpetfish: Pufferfish: Parrotfish: Please check out my entire Nassau underwater photo gallery here.
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Diving Nassau, Bahamas: Sea Turtle
If I had to characterize the diving in the Bahamas with one word, it would be… “big.” It seems like everything underwater there is big. Unlike, say, Curacao, where the vast majority of sea life is tiny and to be found within the crevices of the coral reef, the marine life of the Bahamas…