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Living The Dream Divers on Grand Cayman

Do you have a dream to one day drop everything you’re doing at your real-life day job and move to some place tropical?  How will you make money in paradise?  How will you live???  Well, here’s a couple that’s figured out how to do just that.  Gary and Liz Frost, are the owners of Living The Dream Divers.  They moved away to the tropical delight of an island, Grand Cayman and setup a dive company!  It seems like they’re Living The Dream to me!

Some members of our small Salty Dogs team decided to check out Grand Cayman over the holidays and while there, we hooked up with Living The Dream Divers on the west coast of Grand Cayman.  There the water is mostly calm and clear and extremely enticing to any traveler from the cold climates that’s aching to jump in and go diving!  The dives were a lot of fun and we would like to send out a thank you for all the memories, to our friends, Gary, Liz and especially to Scott Hartwell our dive guide, who is an outstanding human being and representative for Living The Dream Divers!  Happy New Year, friends!

Look them up!

Living The Dream Divers, GRAND CAYMAN

 https://www.livingthedreamdivers.com/
[email protected]
Call us +1-345-526-3483

 

-saltydog

in Diving, Travel Posted by SaltyDogs

Guardian Of The Reef on Grand Cayman

Guardian Of The Reef is a bronze statue that was sunk in about 65 feet of water just off the coast and is easily accessible as a shore dive from Divetech’s front yard on Grand Cayman.  In order to access the dive site from the shore, you have to start out in a man made ocean pool and then traverse a cut through the sea rocks out to the Caribbean Sea.  It’s a lot of fun to do and my family and I can’t wait to do it again!  Very very cool!

I’m in a hurry getting ready for a dive coming up in a couple of hours so, I’m being lazy and not including pics of the pool and cut that we used to enter the ocean on this shore dive.  Will include that later for sure.  Also, you’ll have to turn your head sideways in order to truly appreciate some of these pics.  Sorry for the picture formatting laziness/lack of time.  😉

Viz wasn’t that great on this dive as the ocean was a bit choppy but, how fun!  Check out the artist that made this statue, The Guardian of the Reef.  More later!

 

-saltydog

in Diving, Travel Posted by SaltyDogs

Cayman Islands are calling to us! What do they have to say for themselves???

Do you like the feel when in the Cayman Islands?  I do.  I also like the jerk chicken and the super clear warm water and soft sand the islands there have to offer.  Maybe I’ll gather up my lovely family and head south to the beautiful Caymans soon and escape the shitty Michigan cold?  Yes, I think I will do that.  Close your eyes and day dream with me a bit…  can you smell the salty Caribbean Sea air as we sit at Calico Jack’s and order up half of the menu?  I’m having the jerk chicken, fries, EXTRA EXTRA sauce pretty please.  If the napkins taste as good as the fries and chicken there, I’ll also use those dry white starchy paper wafers as vehicles for that badass Jamaican jerk sauce goodness!  If the meal doesn’t arrive quickly, I may just try out that napkin flavor fer certain.  But, from thorough training and experience, I’ve learned to not rush things when in the Caribbean or while on vacation for that matter.  It’s just not right to be in a hurry while on holiday and we should all remember that it’s not polite to be pushy either.  Sometimes I forgot that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar and I can get a little in a tizzy when it comes to wanting to get food in front of me fast.  So, therefore one can deduce, that it’s good training for me to go on vacation frequently in order to keep my manners tuned up and to remind myself that patience is indeed a virtue and to not be a rush-round asshole.  So, I will wait quietly for my jerk chicken, fries and EXTRA EXTRA sauce to arrive at the table in front of me.  Though if there isn’t any Caybrew beer there to help me in this training endeavor, all bets are off the table!  C’mon Cayman Islands!  Can’t wait to get back to ya again.

 

Scientific Weather Reading:

Current weather in Michigan is…  Shitty cold and snow on the ground with a good chance of the same tomorrow.

Current weather in Georgetown, Grand Cayman is…  Let’s find out and let’s do some scuba diving with the family while we’re at it!

I’ll be sure to report back.

-saltydog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cJODNxx9Ww

 

 

in Diving, Travel Posted by SaltyDogs

Scuba in Cuba! Non-stop flights to Havana from the USA

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First nonstop flights and frequencies to Havana. By the Cuba Journal

The above new flights are regular scheduled flights operated under a new agreement between the U.S. and Cuba. Previously, all flights from the U.S. to Cuba were considered “charter” flights. The charter flights have permission to continue flying but may decide to suspend service due to price competition.

Approvals for regular scheduled flights and routes to Cuba were separated by city. The first batch to receive approval were the non-Havana flights, the first of which was last month’s JetBlue flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Santa Clara.

Fares to Havana range from $59 to several hundred dollars.

For scheduled flights to and from each of the nine non-Havana international airports in Cuba, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has allocated up to 10 daily round-trip frequencies at each airport, for a total of 90 daily flights. Including Havana, the total number of daily flights between the U.S. and Cuba can be 110.

Here are the non-Havana airlines and routes.

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Schedule of Approved Flight Routes to Cuba

in Diving, Travel Posted by SaltyDogs

Belize Prophecy movie trailer

I’m currently cutting my teeth on video editing.  Here’s a very quick editing session (very hard to tell, right?) output that I created with my own hands…  along with the help of Apple iMovie’s easy movie creating wizard and a GoPro video camera.  I have a lot to learn about splicing video but, I can see how it could grow into an addiction.  Very satisfying to take raw video and sound and then make something cool of it all.

Many thanks to our support team, lead by Mr. Ernest Leslie – PADI Scuba Instructor and friend at Ramon’s Village dive center on Ambergris Caye, Belize.

Do you know what I like better than my first day of video editing?  Scuba diving!!!  There are some other things that I’ve enjoyed even more as well.  😉

 

So, go grab some microwave popcorn, some Twizzlers and a friend and click and enjoy the movie trailer below that did NOT take the Cannes Film Festival or the Sundance Film Festival by surprise…

 

-saltydog@sd

in Diving, Travel Posted by SaltyDogs

The best of Fiji?

VoliVoli Beach Resort

 

This family owned and operated resort offers a choice of twin queen rooms and studio villas, all with ocean views. The Nuku Bar and Restaurant overlooks the swimming pool and offers three meals per day. A variety of body and facial treatments are available from the Daulomani Day Spa. Volivoli Beach Resort is home base for the luxury live-aboard S/Y Fiji Siren. Kiteboarding and sport fishing are available at the resort as well.

Package includes:

  • 7 nights oceanview accommodations
  • 5 days of 2-tank boat dives
  • Daily breakfast
  • Roundtrip airport transfers
  • Hotel tax and service charges
  • Valid for travel April 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016 and January 10, 2017 through March 31, 2017

Price: $1,669
Valid: April 1, 206 through March 31, 2017
Travel must be booked by: March 15, 2017
Website: caradonna.com
Booking Email: [email protected]
Booking Telephone: 1-800-329-9989

in Diving, Travel Posted by SaltyDogs

Diving The Forbidden Island Of Ni’ihau

For a taste of the forbidden, head to Ni‘ihau, Hawaii.

Because visitors are barred from setting foot on the island, Ni‘ihau is nicknamed the “Forbidden Island.” But, fortunately, scuba divers are allowed to explore the surrounding waters below.

Traveling to Ni’ihau is a full day excursion. Depart from Kauai before sunrise with Seasport Divers and return around sunset. It’s a long day, but the views from the boat alone are well worth it. Not to mention the vertical walls, intriguing caves and unlimited visibility awaiting divers.

Expect to encounter lava rock formations, white tip and gray reef sharks and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal. You’re likely to see spinner dolphins and have Oscar, the resident monk seal, pose for a photo or two. Not only will you most likely see monk seals, you may even hear them. It’s quite entertaining to hear the “whooping” call as one monk seal signals to another that he has come too close to his territory. This was easily the highlight of my three dives at Ni’iahu.

Seasport Divers runs trips to Ni’iahu twice a week from May to October. Make sure to reserve your spot ahead of time, the boat fills up fast!

in Diving, Travel Posted by SaltyDogs

Embrace Your Mana And Dive Into A Tahitian Paradise

Tahiti delivers an enticing combination of topside beauty and underwater excitement. The setting is the seductive stuff of daydreams. Verdant volcanic peaks rise above palm-studded beaches that line an electric-blue lagoon. It is the land of flowers in the hair and pareo-clad dancers, of bold tribal tattoos on bronze skin and ritual offerings to the shark gods. Adding to these iconic notions are luxurious thatch-roofed bungalows that perch on stilts above clear shallows, and resorts that deliver five-star vacation experiences with a unique flair for barefoot luxury. Private waterfront terraces encourage languor, but the reefs are never far away, and blue waters promise adventure above and below the waves.

Reef life and dramatic walls are in the mix, but the big draw for many is the sharks. Encounters are common, but not threatening. Whitetips and blacktips are often joined by lemon sharks on feeding encounters within lagoons, while walls and current-washed channels attract gray reefs, silky, bulls, hammerheads, silver tips and more. These same spectacularly clear waters hold manta rays, dolphins, sea turtles and swirling schools of jacks, tuna and barracuda. Divers less interested in the ocean’s apex predators can relax in sheltered coral gardens, where rays and reef fish gather.

Seek a topside thrill; you can paddle to a deserted beach. Ride a four-wheeler to a scenic peak or bike backroads and forests. Cruise into blue water to meet whales and dolphins. Hike into the Valley of the Kings and zip through the jungle.

No matter the adventure you find yourself in, you always have the option to indulge in treatments that tap the vitality of Polynesian oils, flowers, and plants grown in Tahiti. Book a massage in an open-air pavilion overlooking the lagoon. Wake up to a private yoga session in an over-water bungalow.

Dive packages start at $1,194 per person, based on double occupancy.

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