I met some great people during my liveaboard in Australia. When saying our goodbyes we jokingly said “Let’s dive the Maldives next year!” Well, it wasn’t a joke for two of us, and 11 months later Colin and I found ourselves aboard a giant, luxurious boat in Maldives. Overall the diving wasn’t as impressive as Australia or New Zealand. In fact, Maldives is way down on my list of favorite places to dive. However, the boat, people, and gorgeous atolls made this a very memorable trip.
Tag: diving
To conclude my three month trip through New Zealand I spent my last ten days exploring the area north of Auckland. South Islanders claim their island is the best, and of course North Islanders would disagree. The two islands are so different that it’s difficult to rank one before the other, but I really enjoyed my road trip north of Auckland. There was so much variety in things to do and places to see, ten days was hardly enough time to do everything the area had to offer.
The first thing I wanted to do in Australia was go diving, so I flew into Cairns. The Great Barrier Reef is on many a-diver’s bucketlist, and it was time to check it off mine. When I first began to research diving the Great Barrier Reef I was disappointed to hear that the amount of people travelling to the reef was beginning to show. The charters were big tourist traps and the reef was slowly being destroyed. This worried me, because if I went all the way to the Great Barrier Reef I wanted to do it right. So I spent lots of precious time looking up the best possible way to go diving.
During my research I came across a well-setup website with lots of helpful Great Barrier Reef dive information. They also had a toll-free US number, which many other sites did not have. After trying to narrow down my options I needed help with the final decision. I played phone tag for a few days, but finally got in contact with Joel. I told him my concerns and what I was looking for. An hour later he emailed me several options I might be interested in, and highlighted two that he would specifically recommend. He was extremely helpful and I decided to go with Mike Ball Dive Expeditions 3 night Fly/Dive Cod Hole.
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