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11/27/2007, 11:13 AM
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It's a tough life...
Here's what my last few weeks have been like...
Items of note: Castaway Island was AWESOME!!! All the friendly "Bula¡'s" and the warm days were awesome, the food was great (especially the pizza). The Dive Team, Waz and Elle were MOST friendly and helpful, definitely a first rate operation. The dive team was spectacular as well. Jone and Bola were with us most of the time and were just wonderful. I did manage to run myself completely out of air at 30 feet on the second day as I was getting ready to come up. I need a double tank BC apparently. Being an airhog really sucks, since you have to come up before you really want to. I got to look at my "buddy" as my spare tank... Interestingly, the island where Tom Hanks filmed Castaway is a close neighbor and is not nearly as remote as the movie made it seem. I kept expecting to see Wilson go floating by... If you ever get the opportunity, I strongly recommend it, Castaway was worth every penny! Their web is at http://www.castawayfiji.com/scuba.shtml. Anyway, some pictures. Disclaimer: I didn't take all these pictures, some were taken by my wife and others by another guy on our boat. Some were also taken just snorkelling off the beach.        
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11/27/2007, 11:18 AM
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Beautiful! Not sure I'd like to be photographing the sharks! But what lovely pix---a few real oddities, like the tinkertoy number up on the feet. What was that one?
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11/27/2007, 12:20 PM
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Nice, that is what a picture thread should be..
I want to know that "tinker toy" thing too?
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11/27/2007, 12:36 PM
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The tinkertoy thing looks kind of like a cuke of some sort to me. You notice the body extends to the right and downward....
Nice pics Liberty! Sounds like a fun trip. Kevin
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11/27/2007, 12:48 PM
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Is this the tinkertoy thing?
If so I don't know what it is either. Looks neato though.
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11/27/2007, 01:10 PM
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Awesome pics, thanks for posting them. Looks like a grand ole time you had.
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11/27/2007, 01:14 PM
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 how close did this guy get? that must have been exciting! by the way, hey dino!! THIS is a picture thread!! 
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11/27/2007, 01:29 PM
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So sharks don't mind when you pee in the water huh? I know I would have!
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11/27/2007, 02:39 PM
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What an amazing trip!! I would love the opportunity to dive there! Those pics are just stunning with the diversity of wild life.
First time divers can easily deplete that air. You get all excited and breathe faster and pretty soon you're out of air. Almost happened to me once. When they were training us for the certification we practiced "running out of air" in the pool. We'd dive to the bottom with a buddy and then the instructor would swim up behind us, give us the OK, and then turn off our air. No matter how much you tried you could never get a full breath before it "ran out". Really freaky feeling. But it trained us properly how to react.
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11/27/2007, 02:43 PM
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Awesome pics! Really makes me wish I knew how to swim.
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11/27/2007, 02:52 PM
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Great pictures. Thanks for sharing. How did the little one do?
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11/27/2007, 03:15 PM
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I couldn't get her past thinking that something was going to swim out of the seaweed and bite her.
I did get her out far enough to see some of the hundreds of blue linkia, she really got a kick out of it. She also did the SASY and played and did crafts and other activities with all the other kids. She had a blast making her little Kava bowl and her dot paintings with Rogest!Can't wait for her to get old enough to go diving! Last edited by Minuteman; 11/27/2007 at 03:28 PM. |
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11/27/2007, 03:19 PM
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Oh the poor thing. Jena used to be like that. We went to Discovery Cove in Florida and they have a stingray pool where you wade through the stingrays. Tried to explain they were just as afraid of her as she was of them. Didn't work.
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11/28/2007, 07:22 AM
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 I'm on such a slow internet connection this thread would take me a couple hours to load if I tried to look at the pictures.
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