Australia – 2025

Finally made our 7th continent! And we did it over Red’s birthday. This trip was more about seeing friends than sites although we did both. Over the course of the last 18 years we’ve done many trips on boats that were operated by a Sydney based operation so met a bunch of Aussies on our … Read more

Philippines – 2024

A trip that started as a booking to a different destination in 2018 for travel in 2020. We all know how that worked out. So finally Matt and I ended up on the Master Liveaboard’s Philippine Siren. One of our favorite type of dive boats as we had been out on the Indo Siren many … Read more

Polar Bears and Belugas – 2024

Lazy Bear Lodge in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada has been advertising polar bear adventures in early winter for years. I’ve always past on them for various reasons. Then this year they offered something different – a journey to Fireweed Island to see the bears in summer, in the flowers. Now here was something completely different. As … Read more