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Vacation in Jamaica — Day 3

By the third day of our vacation we were starting to settle in and get used to the pace of the resort.  Melanie and Andrew spent most of the morning at Kid's camp while we went out on the dive boat for our first taste of the local coral reefs.  Although the dive was rather chaotic (~15 divers in one large group, many of whom were relatively new divers), we were pretty happily surprised by the quality of the reef and the prospects for diving looked good!  So good in fact that I decided to go for a night dive later that day.  I won't get into many details of … Continue Reading ››

Blast from the Past

We were trying to remember when we went on our first dive vacation and discovered that it was exactly 9 years prior (to the week) to our recent trip to Jamaica. That trip was to the Bird Rock Beach hotel in St. Kitts to visit my brother Ian. He was running the diving operations at the hotel and we managed to mooch off him for a week of free diving. We also charged all of our food and drinks to his room so that we could get his staff discount. It was an amazing week of diving and we had a great time. I … Continue Reading ››