Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
ALOHA! from HAWAII!!!!
...on 17th Apr we left MEXICO CITY for DALLAS -met up with SHAF -friend from UNI days...spent 4 days here-visited SOUTHFORK RANCH of t.v series DALLAS...
...visited KENNEDY MUSEUM and the site where he was shot in 1963 THE DEALEY PLAZA...it's a great WHO DUN IT!!!-every tourist has their own theory as to who really got him killed and why...great museum but US authorities explanations as to who killed him and why is just so pathetic and laughable!-I guess we will never know the truth...
...but WHO CARES cause now we are in another paradise!!! HAAAWWWAAAIII!!!
Monday, 14 April 2008
CAYE CAULKER-BELIZE







DIVING-HONDURAS- ROATAN-BAY ISLANDS

...our dive shop-OCEAN CONNECTIONS-it was home from home-great bunch of people-we were real sad to leave them after 9 days of friendship...it backs on to the ocean...
...this area is known as WEST END...

...back of the dive shop...the boat bringing people back from dive...

...back of the dive shop as Kiki bring back empty Oxygen cylinders from the dive boat...

...our beautiful hotel right across the dive shop...we had a suite with kitchen -living room etc-we just wanted to stay here for ever-ROATAN is one place we know we will go back oneday...

....on our patio...we have enjoyed relaxing in hammocks all over the world...

...my favourite drinking hole in all my travel-this bar has COOL BLUE CARIBBEAN OCEAN in the front(see pix below this-VEDANTA playing in the water) and the back(see picture no2 above)-also watched few football matches here-the pix above was taken on the day REDS beat EVERTON 1 nil...

...Vedanta plays in the water at the front of my all time favourite bar as Dad watches REDS beating EVERTON inside the bar...with a few cold ones ofcourse...

...this less than a minute walk from our hotel...

...another place to enjoy some cool drinks---about 2 minutes walk from our hotel...

...WEST BAY beach...5km of pristine white sand and lashing of blue CARIBBEAN waters...10 minute taxi ride from our hotel...the waters are so shallow here...
...the SNOKERLLING was really good too...

...Pritti & Vedanta off snorkelling-I didn't see them for 2 hours...

...BOND GIRL back from her mission...

...I didn't snorkel much here but it was a good photo oppertunity...

...I sat round all day watching the traffic go by... with few cold SOL for company-with slice of lime of course


...leaving ROATAN by ferry...this ferry hit the REEF few years ago...
Sunday, 13 April 2008
DIVING- BELIZE





...spotted EAGLE RAY...




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...DIVING in BELIZE...

...2 of our dives were at 20meters and BLUE HOLE dive was at 40 meters...



...we are both now certified OPEN WATER SCUBA DIVERS...we are hoping to go one stage further in near future to become ADVANCE SCUBA DIVERS and for that one needs to do five special dives like wreck and night dives etc with a scuba -master and if you pass then you are a certified ADVANCE SCUBA DIVER... we both have done one advance dive each already and so 4 more to go...


...Dipak by the WALL---WALL is from where the sea dropps off in to darkness and unknown...we are at 22 meters and from here the sea goes down to over 1000 meters and when you see this darkness where no sun-light ever penetrates- everytime it use to send chill down my spine...


...Pritti and Dipak at 20 meters...picture by our Dive-Master..


...beautiful STAGHORN CORAL...


...GIANT SEA CRAB...
...when you are diving you never really get scarred of any of the creatures that you see and most of the time they are only couple of feet away from you...but if you see something like that on land you run miles away...it's weird but it's true...




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...THE BLUE HOLE is a tourism poster for BELIZE...it's where divers from all over the world come to dive...it's 400 feet deep and 1000 feet wide...it's a collapsed cave under the ocean...

...THE BLUE HOLE...
...this is exactly how it looked when we were there-deep BLUE...
(this picture taken from archive)
...unfortunatley this is the only picture from our BLUE HOLE DIVE as it was windy day and so water became murky with 5 meter or less visibility and we were 40 meters below the surface...
...BULE HOLE is known for it's number of SHARKS that one can see and we saw some 9 SHARKS in all here and some were huge over 25 feet perhaps...we think they were GREY CARIBBEAN SHARKS and others...we spent total of 25 minutes below the water...I am telling you I was shitting myself but it was great Adrenaline rush...
...in this dive we had to descend very fast to 40 meters using the wall as our marker,then you swim beneath a stalactite-laden overhang and that's where all the SHARKS were hanging out... heart stopping moment for me!...