I visited The Philippines with my friend Pablo during one Chinese New Year holiday in Hong Kong. Trips to the Philippines, as with some other South East Asian countries, are usually a mixed bag. One can expect breathtaking scenery along with various bizarre disappointments in how travel arrangements are conducted. This trip was no exception. […]
I had wanted to go swimming with whales for a while, ever since I picked up freediving. I gave up freediving, but that’s another story. Having gone scuba diving with sharks and other big creatures, swimming with whales was an obvious next step. Sri Lanka was a good candidate location. I could potentially visit Sri […]
Freediving is the art of going underwater while holding your breath. Unlike scuba, there is no breathing apparatus to rely on; one has to have the level of physical conditioning required to perform the dive. I picked up freediving with my trainers Chris and Michelle. Chris would talk up the purity of the experience: “No […]
Diving The Great Barrier Reef is one of the ‘bucket list’ items for adventure-seekers everywhere. It is possible to dive from Cairns or Townsville on Australia’s eastern coast, but the GBR stretches 2300 Km along that coast. The best way to experience a variety of dive sites along the reef is to do it by […]
Back in 2015, I was scuba diving off the island of Nusa Penida near Bali in Indonesia. Nusa Penida is famous among divers for the massive ocean sunfish, locally known as “mola mola”. The sunfish is the largest bony fish in the world (i.e. aside from sharks and rays, it is the largest fish). The […]