Horizons and islands and skies full of blue
News on the job front, from the latest email:
"I'm going to place you on the S/V Mandalay, which is currently sailing the entire Caribbean chain from Grenada to Antigua on two-week cruises, and then will head to Panama in May to be based out of the San Blas Islands. I've recently obtained the world's exclusive dive rights to dive in the San Blas islands, so this will be a bit of an "exploratory" summer and we'll have some press coverage, etc. as it will be the first time the reef has been dived inside the Kuna Yala indians' tribal lands. I have some meetings next month in S. Africa and Costa Rica, but afterwards I'm hoping to have time to go back down to Panama and actually find/mark dive sites with a GPS for you. Otherwise I'll ask you to do that the first couple weeks on that itin."
Making exploratory dives on virgin reefs which possibly NOBODY has ever dived before? Aw, do I have to?
San Blas islands, by the way, are phenomenal. I'd never heard of them until the other day when Romi and Justin noticed them on the Windjammer itinerary and mentioned that they'd been there recently. They didn't just mention them, though: they absolutely raved about them. And they only saw the surface.
For my training, I'm staring with S/V Legacy in Tortola on Febrary 11. I'll sail two weeks from the BVIs to St. Maarten, and will then be flown to St Lucia to join Mandalay which is, by the way, the "queen of the fleet." And for all you science kids out there, evidence gathered on her (earlier, duh) voyages confirmed the theory of continental drift. How cool is that?
Apparently my first month on the Mandalay will be a wacky, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants affair as there will be several different and disparate charter groups: gay naturists, world cricket cup sports enthusiasts, Pepsi India, etc. They hope I'm up for it.
Up for it? I'll be dreaming of it for the next four weeks as I make my dive briefings and describe all four species of fish we can see in the lake along with all those big rocks and, ooh, don't forget the hot mud.
The new instructor's arriving here on Saturday, which gives me a few days to orient him before leaving next week with Airek and Alice for some much needed rest and a bit of backpacking around the country to check out some ruins and stuff. The timing couldn't be better—when I get back I'll barely have two weeks left before it's time to go. Wow. I can hardly believe this is happening!
"I'm going to place you on the S/V Mandalay, which is currently sailing the entire Caribbean chain from Grenada to Antigua on two-week cruises, and then will head to Panama in May to be based out of the San Blas Islands. I've recently obtained the world's exclusive dive rights to dive in the San Blas islands, so this will be a bit of an "exploratory" summer and we'll have some press coverage, etc. as it will be the first time the reef has been dived inside the Kuna Yala indians' tribal lands. I have some meetings next month in S. Africa and Costa Rica, but afterwards I'm hoping to have time to go back down to Panama and actually find/mark dive sites with a GPS for you. Otherwise I'll ask you to do that the first couple weeks on that itin."
Making exploratory dives on virgin reefs which possibly NOBODY has ever dived before? Aw, do I have to?
San Blas islands, by the way, are phenomenal. I'd never heard of them until the other day when Romi and Justin noticed them on the Windjammer itinerary and mentioned that they'd been there recently. They didn't just mention them, though: they absolutely raved about them. And they only saw the surface.
For my training, I'm staring with S/V Legacy in Tortola on Febrary 11. I'll sail two weeks from the BVIs to St. Maarten, and will then be flown to St Lucia to join Mandalay which is, by the way, the "queen of the fleet." And for all you science kids out there, evidence gathered on her (earlier, duh) voyages confirmed the theory of continental drift. How cool is that?
Apparently my first month on the Mandalay will be a wacky, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants affair as there will be several different and disparate charter groups: gay naturists, world cricket cup sports enthusiasts, Pepsi India, etc. They hope I'm up for it.
Up for it? I'll be dreaming of it for the next four weeks as I make my dive briefings and describe all four species of fish we can see in the lake along with all those big rocks and, ooh, don't forget the hot mud.
The new instructor's arriving here on Saturday, which gives me a few days to orient him before leaving next week with Airek and Alice for some much needed rest and a bit of backpacking around the country to check out some ruins and stuff. The timing couldn't be better—when I get back I'll barely have two weeks left before it's time to go. Wow. I can hardly believe this is happening!
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