Hi People, Yes we have finally moved away from our little house. We found a great place with ocean view. It is up a hill and 2 stories high, we are slowly getting used to running the stairs again, man, did we have soar calfs the first 2 days. haha. We are enjoying every moment, waking up with the sound of the ocean and the monkeys howling and the birds trying to win from the monkeys. Our zoo, is as happy as can be, no more cage for Jippie, she climbs that mountain like it was hers sinds day one. Now [View Full Entry]

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What's new?? Coco has a new supermarkt! excited??? YEAH, now we can buy almost everything (except Dutch tea and peanut butter) But eh, one can't have it all, right? What else is new? I have a new gate with a wall and a new floor, all this to keep the water out! Does it work you ask? NO!! For the last 2 days we were flooded again! UGGGGGGG, I think we need to move. What else is new? Devil (one of our kittens) was a Dino victim, but that same evening somebody put Fidel (a new kitten) in front of our [View Full Entry]

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We had a little Curacao reunion this month, Jean Paul came over to assist in the IDC as well as Gerben (both intructors who used to help us out on Curacao once in a while) then Tim, Jill and their son James came over (customers form Curacao) and now we have Paul Tielemans here for 3 weeks (former Dutch marine;bloys boy and regular customer from Silent) As you can see, people are not forgetting us! World Ocean day was 1 day before we started our first IDC, lots of excitment, but Carlos Hiller managed to finish the great mural on our [View Full Entry]

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Saa er der lige lidt nyt igen! Denne gang fra sol, sommer - og regn... Det stoerste er at Thyge er kommet og sluttet ringen. Det er fedt at vaere 3 og han bringer en del friskhed ind i crewet.. Der er lidt flere kolboetter og mere ninja end tidligere! Vi var i San Jose saa lidt tid som overhovedet muligt, og tog nord paa til Playas del Coco (Kokosstranden) Der er nu ik saa meget kokosnoeddestrand over det her, men solen skyder os med laser og om efterdagen faar vi i den grad vandet haven. Vi har fundet os et [View Full Entry]

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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 Coco and decided to stop and meet some of the dive centers in Playa del Coco. Our first stop was Rich Coast [View Full Entry]

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We received an email from one of our Neighbors from Holland that Kim is coming with a friend, NO problem. Of course they needed to dive. First there was some anxiety, but both passed their open water coures with Martin the Guru. Now it was time to see something else of Costa Rica. Sunday we took them to Tamarindo. Walked around and spend money on food, drinks and souvenirs. Tuesday it was time to go to Tronodora, and visit Kees for his B-day. Great opportunity for the girls to see lake Arenal. We decided to spend the night and move to [View Full Entry]

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Here is just a little update. Our tickets are booked and we are going to Malaysia on Feb 26th. We will stay 1 night in LA. Michelle will pick us up and we'll stay with her for teh night. Fun, loads to tell!!! We'll arrive in Malaysia on the 29th and the hotel is booked! Martin's CD course will start on the 4th, so he has a few days to relax. After the course we planned a little vacation time and when we read about Sipadan we are getting really excited. The diving should be fenominal there!! Don't worry we'll take [View Full Entry]

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So the bus finally turned up and i assumed it was a direct bus how wrong i was, it made loads of stops, was not arir conditioned and i was jammed in to a seat and knees crushed at the front and back kneed aswell and sweating like a pig and later on some of the Ticos shut the windows, it got to the stage the people standing up to and the pan american highway you would imagine is more than one lane either way. but it is one lane either way so if your stuck in slow moving traffic then [View Full Entry]

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First of all, Merry x-mas and an Awesome 2008!! Of course this is the busy season, so everyone is working hard!! One of our staff members got married last week and we were all invited to a Tico / Canadian wedding.................................................. Eerst iedereen fijne feestdagen, iedereen is druk bezig want het is hoogseizoen hier. Een van onze staff is vorige week getrouwd en we waren allemaal uitgnodigd op de ze Tico / Canadese bruiloft. Gaat heel anders dan bij ons hoor. [View Full Entry]

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Buzy, buzy, buzy.........................We had about 50 divers!! What to do? We rent a big boat and have a blast!.............................................Druk, druk, druk................................We hadden 50 duikers! Wat moet je dan? Gewoon een grote boot huren en hard werkten met veel plezier!!!! [View Full Entry]

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