we travel, then walk, on a budget
This is the third of three video companions of our Great Barrier Reef diving trip report. This video covers the new friendships we made during our liveaboard and our New Year Eve and New Year dives and celebrations.
You can find the other entries of our Australia and New Zealand trip series in the index below as they are posted.
This is the second of three video companions of our Great Barrier Reef diving trip report. This video covers the daily life on our liveaboard, Ocean Quest from sunrise to our night dive.
You can find the other entries of our Australia and New Zealand trip series in the index below as they are posted.
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the CNN’s Seven Natural World and UNESCO World Heritage Site covering approximately 133,000 sq mi (344,400 sq km) off the coast of northeastern Australia in the Coral Sea (wikipedia). With recent coral bleaching (wikipedia) from climate change (The New York Times), there was no question of where we were going in Australia. So in this edition of travel2dive, aka just my dive log, we boarded the Ocean Quest liveaboard and really went down under 17 times over the course of 4 days to bring in the New Year.
This is the third entry of our Australia and New Zealand trip series covering our diving adventures on the Great Barrier Reef (3) from day 4 to day 8. You can navigate to the other parts in the index below as they are posted.
This is the first of three video companions of our Great Barrier Reef diving trip report. I cover my journey all the way down under and a tour of our floating home for 4 days and 3 nights.
You can find the other entries of our Australia and New Zealand trip series in the index below as they are posted.
In the travel enthusiast game, it is all about jumping on opportunities. This specific opportunity we took advantage of were a couple of one way flights from Auckland, New Zealand to the U.S. for 6000 American Airline Miles each, which is as close to free as you can get. The final result was my first visit to Australia to dive the Great Barrier Reefs and a return to the south island of New Zealand over the winter holidays. Reflecting now on that trip, which took place just before the 2020 pandemic and the travel restrictions, the notion of jumping on opportunities to travel when we can do so safely again in the future seems all the more important. For now, all I can do is to reflect on our adventures down under.
This is the first entry of our Australia and New Zealand trip series covering our pre-trip planning (1). You can navigate to the other parts in the index below as they are posted.