Staff Party - The ladies... Left to right: me, Vici, Elin & Lisa

Staff party at the Beach Resort.. two coolers full of free beer and wine, as you can imagine it got messy quickly!

Lisa...

...cooling off after we drank all the beer!

Mum, dad, me & Clive..

Resort boys...

Resort girls...

THE BIG TRIP!

OK - so below is an updated map (click on it to make it readable) of "the big trip". below is a list of the stops numbered...

1. Chicago
2. London
3. Toyko
4. Osaka
5. Singapore
6. Phuket
7. Similan Islands
8. Bangkok
9. Melbourne
10. Sydney
11. Christchurch
12. Auckland
13. Fiji
14. Cook Islands
15. Tahiti
16. LA
17. New York

No doubt more stops will be added on the way! Very excited about it all! :)

A nice flamingo tongue..

Went diving yesterday with Vici, we were at Joy's Joy, just one dive (pm) and we saw some cool stuff! No sharks, no eagle rays though.

Sergeant Majors - a bunch of them!

A very small, very cute bridled burrfish..

Longsnout butterflyfish...

This butterfly fish was very taken with the red light that my camera produces when doing close ups in a dark hole. Every time i took a photo he would come close almost kiss the camera (or, more likely, trying to scare the camera off).

Pederson cleaner shrimps!

Diving yesterday.

Finally got out diving again yesterday - lovely morning, perfect weather - we went to Nacy's Cup of Tea and Coconut Walk, haven't been to either of those sites for ages so that was cool. We saw some juvenile spanish hogfish duelling - i have video but no (in focus) photos!


Trumpetfish.

Queen Triggerfish

Crab..

Social Feather Duster..

How?

OK, i found him in my bathroom, and i have no idea how he got there - but isn't he cute?!

Wakeboarding...

...finally up on the wakeboard!! And some photographic proof!! Fabulous morning!

Above water pics...

More and more lately my photo's have been above the water - i guess because of the bad weather and a couple of ear problems. i should really be breaking out the SLR! Anyway i will post a few photo's that i've taken recently and been to lazy to sort out!


Brett right before he tried to float on his own back to the beach resort!!

Anna on the big kite, dave holding her down(!) and brett.


Brett, Anna & Dave watching the kite in the water! ;)



A Southern Stingray..



And Another...


A frog! :)

More Adventures Soon!!

So below is a picture of the world, with my planned round the world route on it (click it and it shoudl get bigger). I am leaving Little Cayman and the underwater wonders for others to discover and heading off to places and pastures new! Very excited about it all - of course! The name of the blog has changed and there will be photos from the trip - but hopefully i will get some diving in in Malaysia to keep up with the underwater photography. It's not for another couple of months though - so i will still be updating with diving photos and the Christmas and New Year activities! Also taking a second trip to Stingray City in a few weeks to once again get scared by really big stingrays! :)



Updates to follow....

Latest Activies....

OK - so not much has been happening here - bit of diving (some nice stingray photo's at some point - i'm having problems with "hello"). And some general hanging out at the resort. Today we all went over to Owen Island to learn (well everyone minus me - thank you shoulders) kiteboarding. Beers were involved so i can't idenify the person in the photo - but it was a lovely afternoon and then a lovely evening.

Days like this are the days i'll miss in Little Cayman...

Diving today....

Red-Ridged Clinging Crab

Lettuce Leaf Seaslug

Tiny Flamingo Tongue

Nassau Grouper

Tiger Grouper

Randy's Gazebo

Diamond Blenny

Hallowe'en!!

So Hallowe'en, everyone made a very good effort to dress up and considering we have trouble getting food on this island i think we all did very well!! We played a few silly games at our bar, then moved for a few at pirates point for a few drinks. Good night all round! Day off tomorrow so hopefully heading out diving for the day. :)

Elisa picking up at the bar!!! ;)

Scary guest

Vici, Paul & Anna

Diving...

Juvenile Filefish

Juvenile Damselfish

Week off!! :)

So i had a visitor this week, and despite the blue sky in the sailing photo's below the weather has been AWFUL all week! The pond is overflowing in some places! Lovely week off from work though - and we managed to get out diving a couple of times (see photo's above!).

Owen Island

Owen Island...

Cool Picture of the hurricane..

We are hiding under the clouds!!

Hurricane Wilmer...

Ok - so this is hurricane Wilmer - the strongest atlantic hurricane ever apparently. Though you can't believe everything you hear on the weather channel. As you can see cloud cover is all over the Caymans and no planes are flying, and diving cancelled etc etc. Hopefully by the weekend the weather should have calmed a little and we'll be diving again, AND hopefully this will be the last hurricane of a very busy season! Roll on November 30th...

Sam's Birthday - Owen Island

OK - So, today is Sam's birthday and to celebrate we went over for a BBQ at Owen Island. And some beer. And some wakeboarding. Sadly - there are no photo's of me actually wakeboarding, which is a shame as it's the first time i was properly up, for longer than a spilt second (about 4 or 5 in total!!!), after some burgers and sausages, we headed for land, then to Preston Bay where one of the local turtle nest was about to hatch. We got there just in time to see two turtles run for the sea and then about 20 dug up from the nest and headed down. very very cool. And, i know you aren't supposed to take photo's as it blinds them, but - there's about 120 turtles in the nest and as you can see there are only about 7 in the photo. And they all looked fine after the flash - carried onto the sea rather than wandering around stunned. :) Wicked day. Days like this are why i left England....

Heading for land...

Walking along Preston Beach...

Turtles! :)

Run for the sea!!!

Diving....

Went diving with Vici on Wednesday and we went to two of my favourite dive sites; Randy's & Meadows. No eagle rays or sharks, but lots of other stuff.

Ocean Triggerfish

Bridled Burrfish