Posts in Tag: snorkelling
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Kuranda Railway & the Great Barrier Reef
This is my seventh post from the March 2026 Adventures Abroad tour of Australia led by fellow Nova Scotian Brandi McCarthy. In the last post we arrived in the beautiful city of Cairns and enjoyed our first Aboriginal experience at Mossman Gorge. In this post I’m going to deviate a bit from the itinerary we […]
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Coromandel Peninsula – Simply Beautiful
Alas, this is my final post from the March 2025 trip to New Zealand, a country that now tops my list of favourite destinations. In the last post Alison and I spent four days in the Art Deco city of Napier where we enjoyed not only the amazing architecture, but great food and wine as […]
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Bonaire – A Quick Visit
In the fall of 2023 we returned to Landhuis Jan Thiel in Curacao for the first time since Covid. It is one of our favourite places on earth and we found things much the same as before the pandemic, enjoying morning walks around the salt lake with Digger and Dingo, the resident dogs. We stayed […]
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Exploring Isabela – A Natural Wonderland
This is my third post from the largest of the Galapagos Islands, Isabela. In the first one we marvelled at the unique Galapagos wildlife found both on and below the surface of the waters of Tintoreras Islet. In the second we sought out the famous giant tortoises for which the islands are known. In this […]
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Kicker Rock – San Cristobal by Boat
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Experiental tour of Ecuador we landed on the Galapagos island of San Cristobal and immediately were immersed in the amazing wildlife for which the archipelago is so famous. In this post we’ll board a small boat and continue to look for more unique species on land and […]
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Ambergris Caye – Almost UnBelizeable
This will be the final post from the amazing trip Alison and I took through Central America with Adventures Abroad last February, led by their extraordinary guide, Victor Romagnoli. In the last post we said goodbye to Victor and our fellow travellers (in the proper sense of that phrase), as they headed back to Canada and […]
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Carlisle Bay, Barbados – The Right and Wrong Way to Snorkel It
On the day I visited Mount Gay distillery we passed by Carlisle Bay and I saw a lot of people snorkelling just a short distance from the beach. In my infinite knowledge of snorkelling, at the time I thought “That’s kind of lame.” My idea of good snorkelling was to go well offshore to a […]
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Keleakekua Bay – Snuba, Spinner Dolphins and Captain Cook
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip Alison and I took to the four main Hawaiian islands. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we concluded our tenth and final game of golf in Hawaii at the former Mountain Course at the Kona Country […]
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Molokini and Turtle Town – Snorkelling Maui’s Most Famous Dive Sites
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip Alison and I and friends took to the four main Hawaiian islands a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we did some exploring in the Ioa Valley and saw where King Kamehameha defeated […]