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CNMI - Saipan 2017 (6 of __)
2017 April 27 - Saipan / Obyan Beach
(Day 3, dive 1)
There are two ways to dive Obyan - either from the shore or from a boat.
If there’s a choice, I’ll take the boat.
This was the first dive of the second day with Cmlc Artha (3rd day of diving on Saipan tho). We got ourselves loaded up and headed south. This time not as far as Tinian but we ( Read more... ) -
CNMI - Saipan 2017 (5 of __)
2017 April 26 - Saipan / dimple
Third dive of the day off Saipan's west coast. Originally planned to do four but three was a good idea. I was still worn out from the steps of the grotto! Actually, I'll just say Nelson, the DM, was tired and I was making him work too hard.
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Dimple is a really nice and easy site. There's a little bit of current ( Read more... ) -
CNMI - Saipan 2017 (4 of __)
Day 2. Dive 2. Tinian Grotto (Tinian).
Tinian Grotto was the second dive of the day. It's also one of the popular sites I had read about and honestly, I kind of enjoyed parts of it more than the Saipan Grotto. Maybe because it didn't require all those steps to climb up and down. It's smaller though, and yet I found the openings to be really ( Read more... ) -
CNMI - Saipan 2017 (3 of __)
When you head to the boat for your dives, you walk down a path to a little sandy beach. There's a dock there and some stairs to access it.
Be prepared to get wet! When the water is up, it'll get your shorts and shirt wet. Some people like to suit up at the shop but if you're not one of them then make sure you've got your things in dry bag and ( Read more... ) -
CNMI - Saipan 2017 (2of __)
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Day 2! Dive 1 Fleming Wall (Tinian)
Dove with Cmlc Artha for my second day of diving in Saipan. I’d dive with them for the rest of the week too. I ended up doing three dives on this day, two were down south at Tinian Island. I got to hang out with Nelson on this first day of diving with CMLC.
Fleming Wall was one of the dive sites I ( Read more... ) -
CNMI - Saipan 2017 (1 of _)
I found some posts I made for a TripReport on ScubaBoard. I never made any posts in here as far as I know so I wanted to copy/paste them in my own blog. These are from a 2017 April trip after a gig in Tokyo. My friend Brad had moved to the Marianas for work so I took the opportunity to visit and dive. (These are copy/pasted directly)
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2020
That came and went.
I still did stuff. Started scuba things and traveled.
Yes. Traveled. Took a roadtrip to Utah which was AMAZING. Did a lot of outdoorsy social distancing with my group so we kept safe.
Then I went to Turkey. It was amazing too. Saw lots of ancient ruins.
Here are some photos.
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It's been
a while.
I'm still here.
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It's the new year
we are still under shelter in place orders.
well, we were, and then we were not, and now we are again as the pandemic has continued to spread and shit is going crazy. Conspiracy theorists are going crazy and apparently science is way too difficult for a lot of people.
My travel plans were cancelled in April, and yet I still got around. Took a ( Read more... ) -
SIP
California - well, Santa Clara county as well as surrounding counties initiated a shelter in place order the day before my birthday - March 16.
It's been one month now. I'm doing well. Eating a lot. Getting a lot of crocheting done. Watching a lot of streaming shows and documentaries. Lots of audiobooks on Audible. Basically keeping busy with ( Read more... )