by Dian Turner | Mar 29, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, INDONESIA, LATEST POST
CULTURE SHOCK… a short 3-1/2 hours plane ride from Singapore landed us in another time and place…. Manado, the capital city of the island of Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. A shocking contrast to the clean, sophisticated, urban country we had just left. The...
by Dian Turner | Mar 15, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, INDONESIA, LATEST POST
PARADISE… what does that word actually symbolize to a diver? The birds singing so loudly at sunrise, they wake you up. Rolling over to a view of the sun’s rays mirrored in the glasslike bay. The first thought that races thru your mind…within a couple...
by Dian Turner | Mar 3, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, INDONESIA, LATEST POST
Selamat Malam (Good Evening) After a week of relaxing and diving at Siladen, this morning we put on our flip flops, took the resort boat over to the mainland, and ventured out to some local villages and the Highlands. Indonesia consists of 5 major islands, but...
by Dian Turner | Feb 27, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, INDONESIA, LATEST POST
Imagine being 25 feet below sea level and floating a foot above the sandy ocean bottom … you’ve got your poker (18” aluminum stick) planted in the sand a foot away from the corral to steady yourself in the surge. You’re waiting patiently and on HIGH alert for up...
