I have been very delinquent in regularly blogging over the past while. The weather has been wonderful here in Vancouver, and to escape the maddening mess of a seemingly neverending kitchen renovation, I have been making busy in the garden – starting the Fall tidy up, and staining mucho cedar so it is protected for what is sure to be a long and wet winter ahead.
I have been working for quite some time on the linked gallery from our fantastic trip aboard the Arenui live aboard dive boat in the Banda Sea, Indonesia – a trip that we took last December! With a new adventure close on the horizon, I thought it was time to giddyup and get ‘er done.
I have pored over the Tropical Pacific Critter identification books to try to put a name to all of the weird and wonderful stuff we saw in this trip. Despite several previous journeys to Indonesia (including our first trip to the Banda Sea, that time aboard the now defunct Archipelago Adventurer II with an awesome group of buddies), there were many, many new sightings for me.
One of these days I should get around to writing something up about the Arenui – it is a first class boat and crew, and will be a hard act to follow for future live aboard adventures. They certainly don’t need me to promote them – despite being on the high end of cost, the boat is extremely popular, and sold out for months in advance.
So here is the link to the gallery —> Banda Sea December 2011. Also from that trip is another gallery dedicated to the incredible muck diving we did in Ambon Harbour. It’s dirty diving, but someone’s gotta do it ;^)
