It has been an exhilarating holiday and there’s just a massive amount of topics that came up during this period and that’s not solely because of the interesting animals we saw, the places we went to and the somewhat new nature of the dives we took part in, but also because of the interesting people we met.
Prior to going to Fiji, I talked with my good friend Mauro Resnitzky, an experienced diver who had joined just the same liveaboard (the Fiji Siren) for a 7 day trip in April 2014. His advice was: “If you think Fiji is going to be all about sharks you may be disappointed. Fiji is much...
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It was Heraclitus who said that a man never enters the same river twice. I’m quite sure Heraclitus was not an avid diver but I would say that he was spot on when it comes to dive sites!
Malapascua actually means “bad Easter” in Spanish and “bad Christmas” in Cebuano (they got a lot of things wrong in Cebu, didn’t they? Don’t get me started on the Santo Niño…) but my first visit was on Easter 2013 and was it an Easter well spent! At the time, I was a much less experienced diver and my camera was more modest. I had a Canon G1X bought one year before as a needed upgrade from a camera...
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Jackie is clearly a better (topside) photographer than me so obviously when I bought my DSLR with the housing, I asked her to give me some advice on how to operate it. I wanted to have “plenty of practice” before I took it underwater and so I started playing with it, mostly under natural light. After struggling with a few techniques I wanted to master, I humorously told Jackie “I wish I could just see something, point the camera at it and shoot it” to which she wisely replied “Well, this is a DSLR. If you wanted a point-and-shoot camera you should have bought just that.” Genius.
So...
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