In August of 2010, we headed to Holbox, Mexico to (hopefully) swim with whalesharks. Holbox, pronounced OL-bosh, is a small island off the coast of the North coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. The island is about 40k (26 miles) long, 1.5 kilometres (under a mile) wide, and has no paved roads. Holbox is about a […]
If you get married in the Bahamas, that can’t really be your honeymoon at the same time. I think there’s actually a rule against it. For that reason, we planned a three week diving trip to Micronesia. I’ll explain where it is later. Oh – and this was also over “the millennium”. Once we figured […]
(Location: New Providence, The Bahamas) Going out of our minds with the stress from building the house, we decided to leave everything behind and spend Christmas in the Bahamas. We stayed at South Ocean Beach Resort, which is on New Providence Island, but far far away from Nassau. The diving was fantastic, but the food […]
(Location: Aruba) We used our flight vouchers from Roatan to go to Aruba – it was the only safe place to go during hurricane season. The weather was perfect, but very windy. We stayed at the Sonesta, located in Seaport Village (downtown). There’s a boat that comes right into the lobby and takes you to […]
(Location: Grand Cayman) Fired up from our trip to Roatan, we were excited to go scuba diving in Grand Cayman. Unfortunately it was an El Nino year, which made the diving conditions pretty poor. We had fun at stingray city though 🙂 Would the rain ever stop? Luckily we had a cute little condo right […]
(Location: Roatan, Honduras) “You’re going to Honduras, why?” That is what people asked when we said where we were spending Thanksgiving. We saw it in a magazine – an ad for Anthony’s Key Resort – “dive with dolphins” it read. We had to do this. Roatan is in the Bay Islands off the coast of […]