• Diving Kicker Rock, Galapagos

    Kicker Rock is one of the better-known dive sites in the Galapagos, and we were so eager to get to diving that we scheduled this dive for the first day of the trip.  It’s one of the prime spots for hammerheads, and you occasionally get good sightings of big fish…

  • San Crístobal Island, Galapagos

    San Crístobal Island was the first stop of 3 islands on our Galapagos tour.  Just looking out from our room near the harbor, you could see sea lions, crabs, pelicans, marine iguanas, and more. The afternoon of arrival, we just laid low and checked in at the dive shop.  Next…

  • Scuba Diving in the Baltimore Aquarium

    For my 45th birthday, Chuck surprised me with a reservation to scuba dive in the main tank at the Baltimore Aquarium.  If you’ve ever been to the Baltimore Aquarium, this is the monster tank that you walk down and around at the end.  I used to visit this aquarium as…

  • Day trip to Gibraltar

    Well, it’s certainly been a full day.  We moved out of our Almunecar house this morning and drove down to Southern Spain so we could hop over to Gibraltar.  There’s not a ton of things to do, but we went to the top of the rock, moseyed around town, and…