I hold an active Master Scuba Diver Trainer’s Certificate. I have logged over 3000 dives in my lifetime. In 1978, I was lucky enough to travel to Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun to do some snorkelling for…
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Cozumel is the largest inhabited island in Mexico and the oldest in the Caribbean group and is located 12 miles off the eastern coast of the mainland (Yucatan Peninsula). A limestone plateau forms the base of the island, which…
Carnivorous and always hungry, sea anemones are not plants, as some people might think, but silent slow-motion predators that will devour any small animal careless enough to stray within reach of their deadly tentacles. Equipped with tiny poisonous harpoons…
I love turtles. I love being able to swim with turtles in the open water. Not particularly large compared to other sea turtles, Hawksbills grow up to about 45 inches in shell length and 150 pounds in weight. While young,…
Queen parrotfish are herbivores that graze the reef, using their beaks to scrape plants and algae from the reef surface. This habit involves ingesting corals and sometimes other animals as well, but they are primarily herbivorous. Through their feeding…
The Flamingo Tongue Snail is a small marine snail that lives on coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. For many years, I wanted to photograph one but never seemed to have my camera with me when I spotted…
The Wreck of The Rhone lies within the Rhone National Park off the western coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands. The area is teeming heavily with marine life and it’s common to see stingrays, turtles, sharks…
Our Visits to The British Virgin Islands A year after Yim and I left Belize, our friends, Stu and Fran, who chartered Two If By Sea, had also left and made their way to the British Virgin Islands, where…
Bula In 2006, we visited Fiji. After we returned from Belize, I really wasn’t happy to be back in Montreal. The first winter back was bad and the second was worse. There was one period where the temperature did…
The Indians are four unique shaped rocky pinnacles in the British Virgin Islands right next to Norman Island. These easy to spot rocky pinnacles rise about sixty feet above the water surface. This unique rock formation has one of…
