This is a monumental day for me as this article up on Bootsnall is the first major paid assignment I’ve completed! Bootsnall is a travel site that promotes Indie travel, and one of their segments is called Round the World (RTW) Wednesdays, where they post an article that encourages RTW travel. I pitched an idea…
This quick jaunt up to Dayang Malaysia recently was mostly for the purpose of completing my PADI Rescue course and getting certified as a Rescue Diver (success!) – I invited my usual dive buddy P tagged along as well to test out her newly bought gear and we headed up with Scubaddiction, the same group…
An overall note to say that these dive logs are gonna be pretty brief because I didn’t take that many pictures. Partly because we had open water divers on our course and visited the ‘boring sites’, another reason was that I was on my Rescue course and also because quite frankly, there wasn’t that much…
I love diving and on my last Manado dive trip, I have been working on improving my underwater photography from ‘what-was-that’ blurriness to generally decent shots with the occasional accidental Wow shot. But I don’t think I could have been as inventive as Jason Isley, co-founder and MD of Scubazoo, who brought various miniature toy…
Wow 2012 was quite a great year in terms of travelling! I had hoped to travel more, but I wasn’t really expecting to travel as much as I did given that I was piled with projects at work. But somehow I managed to squeeze out the time and ended up visiting a surprising 7 countries…
Crossposted from Go! Girl Guides, where I’m a contributing blogger. Check out the site for more great articles from other freewheelin’ travellin’ girls that go! I just got back from a great week of diving in Manado with fabulous underwater critters and great weather, and I spent most of my days out on a boat diving…
We were back diving Manado and Bunaken after our Lembeh dives, which gave us an extra hour to sleep in =) Perhaps after the plethora of macro life in Lembeh we were a little spoiled, but there were still some great discoveries here, including the pretty harlequin crab, and how we almost came across a…
Lembeh Straits is one of the more well known places to dive at, and it is truly as awesome as people describe it. It’s a sheltered stretch between the Manado mainland off the coast of Bitung, and Pulau Lembeh, so generally the waters there are quite calm. The diving there is mostly muck diving, which…
I had heard great things about Manado before this trip – my own sister had visited the place several times and most people rave about it as a macro heaven, full of unusual small creatures that dwell in their sandy bottoms. We stayed at Cocotinos and spent 4 days diving at the nearby Bunaken island about…
For this particular trip, my group of 5 were a little tired of the cramped and occasionally icky conditions of our past dive accommodations, so this time around, we planned our stay at a pretty nice boutique hotel resort called Cocotinos Manado. The dive centre Odyssea Divers is based in the resort, so our dive package…
