Scuba Diving

Bonaire - November 2011: A Thanksgiving dive trip with Ocean First Divers. A large group (17) enjoyed a fun week of diving and not having to do any cooking over the holiday. Some underwater and topside photos.

Palau & Yap - Sep-Oct 2011: Been quite a while since my last dive trip, so this was a long one. Three and a half weeks in Micronesia. Despite rain on most days, the diving was fabulous. Here are the Palau pictures. And here are the Yap ones.

Bonaire - June 2010: A return trip to 'Diver's Paradise' (it's on their license plates) for a boys' week out, diving with my brother and nephew. Stayed at Buddy Dive Resort which gave us a chance to boat dive with them, dive the house reef in front of the hotel and do some shore dives on our own. Lots of pictures here.

Maldives - February-March 2010: Exactly 12 time zones from Boulder, the Maldives are a long ways away, but worth the 22+ hours flying time to get there (about 36 hours total trip time). The big attraction here are the manta rays and we saw plenty. Here are the pictures.

Banda Sea - October 2009: So, where is the Banda Sea you ask? It's in eastern Indonesia, located north of Australia, south of the Philippines and west of Papua New Guinea. You may have heard of the Spice Islands - they're in the middle of the Banda Sea. Here are some underwater shots from our 12 days on the liveaboard and also some land pictures of Bali and the dive trip.

Little Cayman - August 2009: Considered one of the best dive sites in the Caribbean, this small (10 miles long), sparsely populated (150 people) island lived up to its reputation. Noted for its wall diving, healthy coral and small creatures, I've posted some underwater photos.

Galapagos - July 2009: I've been wanting to dive the Galapagos for a long time and the time finally came this July. A week-long trip on the Galapagos Agressor II provided my first sighting of a whale shark.The visibility wasn't the greatest for photography, but I've still posted some underwater pictures and also some pictures taken in Quito and on land tours in the Galapagos.

Costa Rica - March-April 2009: Another memorable trip on the Sea Hunter. This time a 14 day voyage to the islands of Malpelo and Cocos. The diving conditions weren't so great at Malpelo, so we cut things short there by a day and headed up to Cocos early. Highlight of the trip was two days of diving and snorkeling baitballs at Cocos. Kind of exciting to be doing your safety stop while surounded by dozens and dozens of silky sharks checking you out.

Indonesia - November 2008: Spent 17 days on the island of Sulawesi, diving at two different resorts. The first week was spent at Two Fish Divers on the island of Bunaken. More traditonal diving with spectacular walls, rich coral and large schools of reef fish. I did see my first mola mola, though! Here are some underwater photos of Bunaken and also some photos above water.

I transferred over to Kungkungan Bay Resort, located on Lembeh Strait. Known for its "muck diving", here you'll find a myriad of strange undersea creatures. Take a look at some of them in this underwater photo gallery. There are also some photos taken of the resort and from the dive boats in this topside photo gallery.

Bonaire - August 2008: A week at the Divi Flaming resort, getting in 23 dives for the week. I'll have to give Bonaire the advantage over Curaçao as far as the diving goes: more to see, shorter boat rides and closer restaurants. This was a chance to try out the macro lens on my camera as there aren't too many large creatures here. So check out the photos.

Costa Rica - January 2008: Twelve nights aboard the Sea Hunter diving Cocos Island about 330 miles off the Pacific coast. One of the largest uninhabited islands in the world and also one of the wettest spots on earth, Cocos is one of the finest diving spots around. Hammerhead and white-tipped reef sharks are in abundance, along with Galapagos and Silky sharks, countless marbled rays and some mantas, huge schools of jacks and the usual morays, lobsters, sea urchins and barnacles aplenty. View a map of Cocos.