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I finished editing the last of the images on the flight home and uploaded and tagged them shortly after getting in and settled. You can check them out by clicking on the image below. Enjoy!

I’m amazed at how much easier it was to pack everything up for the return than it was for the arrival. I guess I have all the experience of having done it once before to help it along, whereas the first packing was a bit of a learning experience. One thing that has come out [...]

One thing that I’m not used to is people just being friendly. It’s purely a function of living in a big city (Boston) where people just ignore everyone around them and go about their business. If someone just said “hi” to you randomly on the street, it’d come across as really strange and likely confusing. [...]

Today was our last day of diving. ::sadface:: The dives were OK. Nothing amazing. We hit two more wrecks, which there’s an amazing abundance of here in the Bahamas. They’re on the smaller side and within recreational limits, which is probably good for the majority of people diving here. If you need something more robust, [...]

This is not a post topic that I would use lightly. Today was, in fact, awesome. Not just normal awesome, as some days are… but so awesome as to warrant the use of an exclaimation point after the proclaimation of the stated awesomeness. Also worth noting is the “holy crap” that’s used to state my [...]

Today was another good day of diving. The first day got off to a slow start due to a pretty good bunch of inexperienced divers. It just kinda goes with the territory sometimes. It doesn’t make it any less annoying, just easier to get over later. We’re all on vacation and we all have a [...]

Today was another great day of diving. We saw our first shark here – a Caribbean Reef Shark. It probably only got within about 50 feet of us, but it skirted the top of the wall that we were diving and passed out of view. I fired off a few shots, but none of them [...]

Today was our first day diving. We’re spending the week with Stuart Cove. So far, they have a really nice operation with great staff. The conditions on the water today couldn’t have been better. The seas were almost mirror-smooth. There was no swell. No wind. Barely any current to speak of. Really a perfect day [...]

We’re at the airport waiting for our departure. We got here early since it’s an international departure but we got to the airport super fast, flew through check-in and security was a total non-issue. Even the cab showed up early this morning. Now we have about an hour and a half wait – though probably [...]

Tomorrow we’re leaving for the Bahamas for a week. I can’t wait. While today was “nice weather” in Boston (relative to how shitty it’s been), I’m happy to leave the mid-to-high 50′s and trade up to mid-to-high 70′s. Packing was a bit of a bitch. I have all my photo stuff plus the underwater photo [...]