Daniel Arellano Schwarzenberg
Patiperro: "chileanism" that is mostly used to refer to a globetrotter or someone who likes to travel a lot. Patiperro
I'm taking some time off work to do long term travel (two years if possible). The 3 - 4 weeks of vacations I had each year wasn't enough; I needed more time.
I don't have any specific plans, just going with the flow and adjusting as events develope. I'm probably going to be spending the first year in Australia and try to get some things done that I've wanted to do for a while, such as getting a diving instructor license, a sailing course, etc. I may do some short travels as well. Next year is my world tour. This blog is mainly for me to record my experiences and so that family and friends can follow up on the things I'm doing. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I'm enjoying writing it. Feel free to leave comments after the posts.
Daniel
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Metallica - Wherever I may roam
Travel Blog Posts
May 20th 2012
I've been in Cairns for a month now, with two weeks onboard the "Mike Ball Dive Expeditions" boat, a few days off in Cairns, a week with friends in Port Douglas and the latest thing I did: a trial in a dive company called "Deep Sea Divers Den", based in Cairns. I contacted the training manager through the dive company in which I did the dive instructor course back in Sydney. During my stay in Cairns, I stayed in a share house and as the ad in internet said "it wasn't fancy, but it was cheap". The good thing is, I had a room of my own with a lock, so didn't need to worry about leaving my things and also, the house was about 200 meters from the dive shop and close to a shopping ... read more
Cairns, Port Douglas and Cape Tribulation
Published: May 16th 2012Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns
May 7th 2012
I arrived from my trip on board the "Spoilsport" (Mike Ball Dive Expeditions) on Thursday (May 3rd). I stayed in Cairns for 5 days and all days were pretty much the same. Friday, Saturday and Sunday I went to walk around town for a bit, wrote e-mails and sent resumes to dive companies, spent a lot of time in internet and slept a lot as well. (So far my stay in Australia has been a lot of fun, but very intensive and these five days of barely doing anything was a welcome change). Cairns is a town that mostly lives on tourism with a wide variety of action sports (skydiving, rafting, diving, etc.) and with the Great Barrier Reef being the biggest attraction, but as a town, it doesn't offer much more than that. As I ... read more
May 4th 2012
Thursday 26th of April, after arriving in port, we took photos of the crew and the guests, took their luggage to shore and then went on to clean the boat. My tasks were cleaning curtain showers, emptying and cleaning rubbish bins, etc. I was done with the whole thing at around 12:30pm. After that, I took a shower and went to get lunch in the town. I arrived at a small restaurant where I sat down and ordered a steak hamburger with chips. Here, like a lot of other places in Australia, you can bring your own alcohol, so I crossed the street to a liquor store and bought a cold 750mm beer to have with my lunch. While having lunch, I updated the blog. After that, I went to a park to sit for about ... read more
MIKE BALL DIVE EXPEDITIONS, PART 1
Published: May 4th 2012Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City
May 4th 2012
Thursday morning (19thof April) was an early start at 4am to be picked up by a taxi and driven to the airport to take the 6am flight to Cairns. When I got to the check in, my diving gear weight over the allowed limit, so I took out a red bag I had inside it with clothes, but I didn’t remember that I also had my brand new Swiss army multi-tool knife in that bag. Surely enough, when I went through the security check in, I was asked if I was carrying a multi-tool in the bag. It was around 5:15am and from what I could remember, I had made sure the night before to specifically put the Swiss army knife in the diving bag, until I realized I had taken the red bag with clothes ... read more
Last days in Sydney?
Published: April 26th 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Sans Souci
April 26th 2012
This post came a bit late. I’ve been disconnected the past few weeks and didn’t really get to update the blog, so here it goes: Saturday 14thof April, I had one of my best dives so far. I had been to this site before, but only with diving students; I’m referring to the wreck “HMAS Adelaide” in Terrigal. Adrian, a Rumanian I did the Scuba Instructor course with, recently started a small company to do boat dives. He bought a red inflatable boat that fits 5 divers and he’s been taking people out in different sites, especially Magic Point (main attraction being a cave with Grey Nurse Sharks, which I really wanted to do but couldn’t find the time) and the HMAS Adelaide. So, I paid Adrian to go on two boat dives that Saturday. I ... read more
Getting the certification numbers up
Published: April 14th 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Avoca Beach
April 13th 2012
Last Saturday I helped teach an Advanced Open Water course which was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it. There were 5 students; Karly (Australian nurse), Dijon (South African pilot), Ludvig (Peruvian – Australian who works in construction), George (Australian, TI) and Brendan (Australia, RAN). Again, I was helping Cem (instructor at Abyss) with this course, which lasted 2 days. The first day consisted on three dives, each with a different goal; the first one was to familiarize the students with the underwater naturalist specialty, which mainly focuses on identifying the aquatic life. The second dive focused on good buoyancy performance and the third dive was an introduction to underwater navigation (that is, swimming with a compass). We did all dives at Bare Island and the visibility wasn’t really good, but good enough for the ... read more
What are the chances
Published: April 6th 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Sans Souci
April 6th 2012
It seems that all I've been writing about is diving, but it's almost the only thing I've been doing, so I'll try not to be too monotonous about it. By Saturday the 31st, I had 95 dives, so still needed a few to start teaching. I went to Bare Island to do 3 shore dives with lots of different divers that left from the dive shop. I did the first two dives with Ryan and Jonny and the last one; I offered to lead 2 recently open water certified divers. Nothing too exciting about these dives in particular; the visibility was fairly good and got to see more or less the same type of marine life as usual, except for a needlefish, which I hadn't seen before (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needlefish). The next day I had to go help ... read more
PADI Scuba Diving Instructor certification - another less thing to do on the bucket list
Published: March 30th 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Sans Souci
March 30th 2012
Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd we continued doing the diving specialties course. We had to do enriched air diving, deep diving and wreck diving. For all dives, there were Carl, Niamh, Ryan and I. Wednesday morning we went to Camp Cove to embark on a boat that took us out for both dives. The first one we did was a deep dive with nitrox (enriched air) to about 30 meters in a spot called Dee Why Wide. We went down the anchorline of the boat to about 30 meters and did some exercises there; see how much color perception is affected at depth and see how pressure affects objects. After that we went back to the anchor and started ascending. We had to do an 8 minute safety stop at 5 meters. This just means you ... read more
Last classes and the IDC just around the corner
Published: March 20th 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Botany Bay
March 20th 2012
After 3 days of not having dived, it was time to get in the water again. I went diving Thursday and Friday and both days were spectacular, the best diving I've had so far in Sydney. Thursday I went to a place I hadn't been to before: Kurnell, specifically to the location which is part of the Botany Bay National Park. Kurnell is where James Cook first set foot in Australia and is considered "the birthplace of modern Australia" and there's quite a few good diving spots there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurnell,_New_South_Wales. I went withCraig, a person I had dived with before and a few more people from the dive shop I had also dived with previously. I did the first two dives with Craig and the conditions were excellent: not much water movement and about 15 meters of ... read more
With the IDC (Instructor Development Course) well underway
Published: March 14th 2012Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Sans Souci
March 14th 2012
On Wednesday I had a day off, so I just stayed home and didn’t do much really. I studied some diving theory and watched a couple of films. At night I had dinner with Rachel and Carl and that was about it. Their house is in a place called Gymea, which is right next to a river and the Royal National Park, so it doesn’t feel like living in Sydney. It’s a really nice area, but it doesn’t have much access to public transportation, which is the main reason I stayed home that day. They live with a blue parrot named Angel and a dog called Splash. On Thursday I got up early to go with Rachel and Carl to the dive shop to go diving, but it was raining too much and the sea conditions ... read more
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