http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Oceans/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceans en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 00:15:17 BST Fri, 16 May 2008 00:15:17 BST A week ago Georgia and I went up to Playa del Coco a little town right in the north western part of Costa Rica. I had been there about 6 years ago and this time I had athe perfect excuse to return...a PADI member forum. We headed off in our rental car armed with plenty of driving tunes and diet coke and of course our diving gear squeezed in the back...just in case.Afer 4 hours we arrived in C http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-275851.html If you are not a regular diver it can be a little difficult trying to identify what exactly you are looking at when you go diving. For example what was that big blue fish that went past and why exactly is that red fish hiding in a hole This past weekend we thought wersquod try and solve some of those problems and encouraged a few of the local divers to take a fish id class. For our first speci http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/blog-257127.html I'm writing this from a different perspective as I unfortunately did not get to play in the latest escapade of Oceans Unlimited due to a recent mishap with a sharp object say no more However I did get to witness the fun that was had by everyother person while I'm hobbling around on crutches.....much to the amusement of others This port cleanup was organized by our ever industrious Kath strivi http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/blog-250065.html I was at a loose end at the dive shop a student having left me hight and dry as I pondered between surfing the web and getting wet... I spotted a Project AWARE coral watch slate and decided to head to the water. There was a local dive trip going out so I grabbed my gear and headed to the boat. As we left port I listened to the other divers in the group swapping dive tales of Manta Rays and BIG http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/Costa-Rica/blog-240737.html The sun was a massive orange ball on the horizon as we headed out of the port we waved to the the tipsy merry makers on their sunset cruises heading abck to land.Meanwhile our little merry band of flash light welding thrill seekers headed out of port all very sober but with the adrenaline rush of a night dive ahead.We all excitedly got ready I breifed a couple of first time night divers whilst h http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/blog-237765.html A couple days I was diving with Trudie an Open Water student at the Aquarium just off the coast fo the Manuel Antonio National Park. We were nearing the end of our dive and I noticed out the corner of my eye an unusual movement on the sea bed. It looked like a sizable rock about a foot in diameter was moving up and down. I got closer and peered underneath the rock and there was a mesh of legs an http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/Costa-Rica/blog-234133.html Costa Rica famous for sportfishing and diving in coco island. Recently it came to us via various fisherman news of an offshore pinnacle. Finally i got a couple of friends together got a boat and headed out there. 26 miles offshore. At a depth of 95ft at its shallowest point surrounded by sand at a depth of 130 140 ft veinteseis is no easy dive. We loaded up with ponies and dropped anchor. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/blog-233762.html Hey and welcome all to Oceans first official blogI figured i would start the new season and new year with a bang and actually keep everyone up to date with whats going on down here in Manuel Antonio Quepos. Im part of a a relatively young dive center down here and living my everyday sometimes adventurous sometimes random life working as a dive instructor and helping run the center. My job is http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Quepos/blog-233758.html