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Rainy Monday Today was a pretty uneventful day. We got up early (7am is early for me) and David put his stuff together and headed to the Canadian Passport Office to renew his passport. It only took a couple hours to get it done and should have it ready by Thursday which is great since I'm flying on Friday. Good timing. The weather was quite terrible so I went back to the room to get some laptop time and work on the blog as you might have noticed (shout out to Vincent for his help). The upside of all the rain is that D got to test his Arc'terix jacket and it works real good. He was dry the whole way...can't say the same for the jeans though but that's another matter. By 1300 the rain ... read more

With just 2 hrs of sleep in the last 24hrs we were finally ready: Camping + Climbing + photo gear packed without being overweight or oversized which was going to save us extra fees in the long run. We purchased a specialty Cressy Apnea Team freediving bag to maintain the airlines guidelines and wrapped the fins with 7mm wetsuits to protect them. We acquire extreme sport insurance with "The Atlas International" just in case US$ 250 deductable US$ 500000 deductable totally worth it: US$ 283 for 5 months. On the carry on we had: photo gear on a backpack that would fit ( Sony Vaio FW560F, two Canon camera bodies, 6 lenses, flash and filters). On a second backpack we had four 500 GB hard drives in a hard case to protect them, 2 iphones that ... read more

A little bit of diving, a little bit of spearfishing, a little bit of bone fishing...... read more

We have been talking about diving for a few days so finally today we went for a little swim. The water was hot and blury because of all the rain latelly but we got to see different fish including a spotted ray beautiful. ..to fast to take a photo. It was interesting to try to take pics of them freediving good motivation to improve our skills.... read more