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Well, it only took 4.5 years, but I finally made my way back to the Philippines and it will not take that long for a return visit. Since I had business to take care of in Los Angeles just before my planned trip, I opted to take the direct LAX to Manila flight on Philippine Airlines. It was a 1pm...

I came across a last-minute deal from United for a round trip flight from Portland, Oregon to Bonaire for only 40K points. So, I jumped on it and 4 days later boarded my red eye flight to Newark and then a short layover before pressing on to Bonaire. That flight goes to Bonaire every Saturday...

I sort of began this post on another thread where I described a dive we did while in the midst of an earthquake. You can read about that here, but I thought I would start a separate thread for just this report: Trip Report - Guanaja Today: Diving During an Earthquake We were a group of 14...

Just a quick installment for today. I will be doing a full trip report when the trip is complete. I arrived to Guanaja on Monday with a group of 12 friends. We began diving yesterday and have 10 days of div ing planned. We are staying at the G&G Clearwater Paradise Resort: Scuba Diving Trips &...

This thread has been created by copying certain posts from a thread in the Indonesia subforum, as indicated in the title above. Hey Richard, Thanks again for setting the standard we all aspire to for trip reports! I thought I would respond to this page of your report, since i have very current...

I just never get tired of Cozumel. The island, the people, the culture, the food, the diving. After a 10 day trip last month, I made my way back down this month for another 10 days. The November trip report can be found here: Trip Report - Cozumel Trip Report: October 30 – November 9, 2022 This...

I popped down to Cozumel for some diving with friends. We were a group of 9 from California, Florida, Arizona and Washington. We did all of our diving with Tres Pelicanos since their boats can accommodate that number of divers exactly and we were able to dive together each day. We did 2 tank...

Our private dive group, primarily based out of Portland, OR booked a weeklong liveaboard on the Rocio del Mar liveaboard from September 3-10, 2022. We were a group of 20 people that are very familiar with one another and have been diving worldwide together for many years. Our itinerary was to...

This will not be your typical lengthy and detailed Trailboss trip report. Just a few highlights and notes and no photos since I left my camera at home (long story). I began diving on Friday morning out of Boynton Beach with Splashdown Divers. We did a 2 tank trip on their boat Delta Splash. I...

This will be the first installment of what will likely be a multi installment report over the next 10 days or so. I am 5 days into a 16 day trip. I am getting a lot of minutae and logistics stuff out of the way with this first report. You will get more on the diving and hopefully lots of photos...

Well, it was good to be back on Bonaire. I was there for 2 weeks in January 2020 just prior to COVID becoming a part of our lives. After being used to annual Bonaire dive trips for quite a while, I was really looking forward to “dive freedom” – set my own schedule, dive my own dive sites, dive...

As of 3 days ago Bonaire has dropped all COVID entry requirements. https://www.traveloffpath.com/bonaire-is-the-latest-caribbean-country-to-remove-entry-requirements/ Happy Diving and I am departing here tomorrow and will try and put together a trip report during my 7 hour layover in Houston...

Red Sea/Nile River Dive Trip December 18th to January 7th, 2021/2022 A group of friends and I planned to do a 2-week dive trip to the Philippines during these dates. Unfortunately, they are still not allowing in foreigners unless accompanied by a lengthy quarantine period. So, when it was clear...

It has been a bit of time since I've been diving out at my local cold water dive site. I have been getting warm water complacent with 5 warm water dive trips in the last year to Cozumel, Florida and the Bahamas during this pandemic. It was great to be back in home waters and see some of my...

I took a flight from Portland, OR to Cozumel via Houston with United Airlines. This requires an overnight stay in Houston on the outbound flight only, as you cannot get to Houston with the time change early enough to catch the once a morning flight to CZM. I decided to stay in an Air BNB this...

HUGE DISCLAIMER This initial trip report post will be completely narrative driven and probably be overly verbose (those that know me, would expect nothing less). I am not going to post any photos for a few days (well, maybe a couple- we will see) so, feel free to slowly read and take it in and...

Today is day 1 of a 3 day weekend stay over after a business trip up north in Ocala, FL. Got out diving this morning for a 2 tank reef trip with Loggerhead Dive Center. I arrived at the appointed weekday time of 8:30am for a 9am departure. I anticipated 4 other divers to also be on the boat...

I had a business trip planned to Texas the end of March and decided to take advantage of being so close to Cozumel from Houston and pop down for a week. I was just in Cozumel this past December with my wife. Trip report here: Trip Report - Cozumel- December 20-31, 2020 I used up some United...

For the first time in 6 years, we flew directly into Cozumel instead of flying into Cancun, shuttling to Playa del Carmen and doing the bag drag and ferry across to Cancun. This was made possible due to the price drop in airfares as a result of the 2020 COVID pandemic. I do not like to do Red...

Well, the first day is down and in the books. We set out to do 3 dives out of West Palm Beach with Walkers Dive Center. Best Scuba Diving in Florida - Palm Beach - Walker’s Dive Charters Things got off to a later start due to our tanks not being there, but everything got sorted and off we...