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Seychelles: snorkel excursions

by leandra | Dec 19, 2023

Snorkel Trip with Geoli Charters (Praslin) There was 100% chance of rain according to Google but we awoke to sunshine, yay! We were picked up by van a little after 9am at our hotel, the driver was...

Seychelles: La Digue sights

by eandl | Dec 17, 2023

Anse Severe This was our 'local' beach, just down the street from our accommodations, and featured multiple beach bars. Eric tried snorkeling on our first day but the combination of shallow water...

Seychelles: Mahe sights

by leandra | Dec 7, 2023

Anse Royale Beach Our flight landed in the morning, and we had several hours to kill before we could check into our self-catering place. Since the weather was nice Eric pointed us to Anse Royal...

Grand Cayman: snorkeling

by eric | Mar 11, 2020

Grand Cayman is famous for Stingray City, but we were not interested in a (pricey) boat tour with a bunch of other tourists. Instead, we went snorkeling from the shore at two locations south of...

Candidasa: snorkeling at Gili Mimpang and Blue Lagoon

by eandl | Jul 12, 2014

Our primary reason for staying in Candidasa was the opportunity for more snorkeling with Blue Lagoon nearby and several rock islands in view off the coast. On our first day at the resort I was...

Candidasa: Tirta Gangga, Ujung Water Palace and White Sandy Beach

by eandl | Jul 11, 2014

The east side of Bali has several temples and sights of interest, so we search Tripadvisor and a few other websites for a driver and found Gejor. Before our trip we corresponded via email and...

Bali: snorkeling at Menjangan Island

by eandl | Jun 18, 2014

After breakfast on the water we walked over to the dive center where we first completed some paperwork and were given fins. While there we met Carolyn, an American working in SE Asia who would also...

Summer Euro 2013: Lanzarote underwater

by eandl | Oct 11, 2013

Our Lanzarote hotel was situated on a rocky cliff overlooking a small bay. In the photo below you can see the small floating dock they have for diving and fishing. Even at low tide you are in 8-10...

Curacao 2013: sights

by eandl | Mar 12, 2013

Around Thanksgiving we found several interesting travel deals for 2013, and a return to Curacao for a long weekend was one of them. Since we had explored much of the island in 2007 we didn't feel...

Asian adventure 2011: Similan Islands

by eandl | Jan 18, 2012

We'd read that Thailand's Similan Islands had some great snorkeling that shouldn't be missed, so we emailed the hotel concierge for some advice. Our hotel recommended Andaman Leisure Phuket (ALP),...

Beaches and snorkeling in Kauai

by eandl | Sep 30, 2011

We spent time relaxing on the beach in Kauai, mainly at two destinations: Ke'e Beach and Tunnels Beach. Both are on the north end of the island and both have an abundance of trees and therefore,...

Soufriere: snorkeling, waterfalls, gardens and mineral baths

by eandl | Feb 14, 2011

As we mentioned previously, we spent about a day and a half wandering around the island of St. Lucia and most of that time was spent in and around Soufriere on the southwest coast. Friday afternoon...

a day of snorkeling

by eandl | May 17, 2010

Even though the spare battery I brought for the little camera was unexpectedly dead (oops!), we still managed to get lots of good underwater photos on our one day of snorkeling in Dominica. Both...

snorkeling off the coast of Culebra

by eandl | Mar 1, 2010

As previously mentioned, due to weather we rescheduled our snorkeling trip to Culebra for a day later and thankfully, the weather cooperated. Not only is the snorkeling better when it's not windy...

St Martin, the beaches

by eandl | Mar 8, 2009

We spent a lot of time on this trip exploring various beaches all over the island. The idea was to hit the recommended snorkeling spots and then do some strolling and people watching at the more...

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