Lake Borumba Photos
Some wildlife shots from our recent camping trip to Lake Borumba (May 2025)
Continue ReadingThailand – Dive trip to the Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock Feb 2025
Link to Dive photos page After our 3 days in Singapore, we arrived in Phuket for our liveaboard dive trip. Fran had already experienced a liveaboard in the late 90’s, coincidentally a similar trip in THailand, and I had enjoyed one in Australia a biut before we met on the […]
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Frev’s trip Singapore January 2025
Frev had been looking forward to our getaway to Singapore and Thailand for months after our last trip to Niue in September 2024. This trip was really intended to be a dive trip with a stopover in Singapore, but it became two distinct trips connected by a short plane flight […]
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Ex-HMAS Brisbane 12 Oct 24
Frev dived with Blue Tortuga Adventures. The water was still cool so we wore our hoodies for the two dives. I was a bit disappointed with the vis, but it could have been worse. There were quite a few Stonefish and Red Lionfish so we had to be a bit […]
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Shallow Diving in Mooloolah: Nudibranch Sightings and Tips
7 Oct 2024 Frev were unable to dive the ex-HMAS Brisbane yesterday due to the boat being out of service, so we went for the next best thing which was a Nudibranch dive today in the Mooloolah River. We picked up tanks from ScubaWorld first thing in the morning and […]
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Niue Sept 2024
Day 4 – 3 and 2 September Carrying on from the Auckland page Despite the cell like nature of the room, we had a sort of ok sleep n the Bin Chicken hotel. We dropped off the hire car and checked in for our flight. We managed to get all […]
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La Balsa Nudibranch Dive – 11 Aug 2024
Frev decided to hire tanks from Sunreef and go and try a Nudibranch dive at La Balsa Park near the mouth of the Mooloolah River in the harbour. High tide was 1.4m at 12.24pm so the timing was excellent. We saw a few Nudis, the highlights being the images below. […]
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White Tip Reef Shark Encounter – I might have been on the menu!
I had an unsettling encounter with a White Tip Reef shark while Ocean Swimming in the lagoon at Matuku Island recently on our Fiji trip. We had been dropped off in deep water by the zodiacs for our swim, I knew there was shallow reef very nearby so I swam […]
Continue ReadingFiji Expedition Cruise to Southern Lau Islands – April 2024
We’ve had another amazing trip to Fiji and have again been blown away by the generosity of the people and beauty of the islands. I was a bit concerned that we would be less enthralled on this trip as familiarity starts to expose the cracks in the glossy veneer. But […]
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