Here I sit over the beautiful Caribbean Sea.  The varying blue colors of the water are too many to count.  What a pleasing image to the eyes and soul.  The only thing you hear are the birds and the ocean waves (calming to say the least).  The flowers are breathtaking, both the colors and the [...]

Our last night on St. Croix.  Erik and Melissa and their crew arrive tonight….I’ll be turning the daily blog over to them.  Dinner again on the deck.  It’s just too nice to leave when we get home from the beach and cleaned up.  Neighbors are having a party so we even had live jazz to [...]

WE DID IT!  yeah!  There was never any doubt that California ocean boy would pass, but honestly, getting SCUBA certified was harder than I anticipated for me.  As I said, I’ve been out on resort dives where you have to learn to breathe from an alternate air source and lose your regulator and find it [...]

Another long day today! Two open water dives this morning in choppy seas. Finishing academics this afternoon. Jeff and I so far have passed all the tests. I am so tired I can barely keep my eyes open.
Diving was fun, when I was on the bottom at the start of the [...]

Over fourteen years ago on vacation in Hawaii with Jeff’s family they convinced this Colorado born farm girl to do a ‘resort’ dive – an introductory level scuba dive at Molokini.  Several ‘resort’ dives later, some with Jeff and some with the whole family, and Jeff and I decided it was time to take the [...]