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Just wanted to say Bim that I love the quote in your sig:
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Isak Dinesen
I am an avid scuba diver (although haven't been for 2.5 years now due to an operation on my spine). It's the only thing I have ever done where I am guaranteed to feel truly in the present moment and calm and grateful to be alive. Would love to dive in your neck of the world too!
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Isak Dinesen
I am an avid scuba diver (although haven't been for 2.5 years now due to an operation on my spine). It's the only thing I have ever done where I am guaranteed to feel truly in the present moment and calm and grateful to be alive. Would love to dive in your neck of the world too!
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Originally Posted by MantaLady 
Just wanted to say Bim that I love the quote in your sig:
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Isak Dinesen
I am an avid scuba diver (although haven't been for 2.5 years now due to an operation on my spine). It's the only thing I have ever done where I am guaranteed to feel truly in the present moment and calm and grateful to be alive. Would love to dive in your neck of the world too!
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Isak Dinesen
I am an avid scuba diver (although haven't been for 2.5 years now due to an operation on my spine). It's the only thing I have ever done where I am guaranteed to feel truly in the present moment and calm and grateful to be alive. Would love to dive in your neck of the world too!
The beach I'm visiting today is what I call my healing place. Lots of all three (sweat, tears, and the sea.) I've worked out a lot of big issues at this spot. It would be a great dive spot - except currents and undertow - rip current and super deep drop-off might kill me. Plus hiking my gear in for a mile and a half sounds so un-fun.
Diving here in the PNW is a challenge, truly. I don't particularly like the weights and the amount of accoutrements needed to dive here. It's beautiful once you get underwater, but I can't justify the exertion needed to do it. I'm old, though. Give me warm water all day long.
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Roatan is pretty awesome. The coral is still fairly healthy and there is volcanic/seismic activity there so the underwater landscape has a lot of nooks and crannies, tunnels, walls, lots of habitat for big critters like turtles, sharks, Goliath Groupers. I guess there are whale sharks there, but I didn't get to see one...
That guy isn't even on scuba, s/he is just free diving.
Whale sharks aren't dangerous. Unless they hit ya with that tail. They're filter-feeders.
That guy isn't even on scuba, s/he is just free diving.
Whale sharks aren't dangerous. Unless they hit ya with that tail. They're filter-feeders.
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Originally Posted by Gilmer
Hi, County!
Well it's a beautiful Saturday here... changed the tires and now i'm going to have to take my youngest for a drive because there's no way a nap is happening otherwise!
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Join Date: Apr 2018
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It's obvs where my tag comes from. Was diving in Egypt in an area that hadn't seen Manta's for years. On two different dive sites over three days a huge lone Manta appeared and both times came straight over my head, the egyptians nicknamed me the MantaLady!
It's not for everyone and I am a fair weather diver
Like the warm waters and not the cold technical diving or shipwrecks...they give me the willies.
It's not for everyone and I am a fair weather diver
Like the warm waters and not the cold technical diving or shipwrecks...they give me the willies.
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: FRANCE
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Was snorkeling once in Egypt red sea (hurghada)
It's so salty you just lie in the water and bob around. Amazing coral and fish. I can't even imagine how much you could see there diving.
One thing I do remember well is that one day it was so hot the soles of my shoes were melting. We were in the valley of the kings and there were little shelter. We were tempted to hide down in tuthankamuns tomb...
It's so salty you just lie in the water and bob around. Amazing coral and fish. I can't even imagine how much you could see there diving.
One thing I do remember well is that one day it was so hot the soles of my shoes were melting. We were in the valley of the kings and there were little shelter. We were tempted to hide down in tuthankamuns tomb...
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I was snorkeling in the Maldives, and the all the flora and fauna is so colorful I couldn't drag myself out of water.
And I remember going to the Valley of the Kings. It was hot too)
And I remember going to the Valley of the Kings. It was hot too)
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I have started trying to meditate a little more this week which has helped a lot and the happy place I picture is the below pic I took after a dive. Bobbing around in the water in the Seychelles waiting for the boat to come and pick me up. I remember the feeling of being so calm and at peace with myself and the world.
Thanks everyone, all this has just had me looking through old photos of dives I have been on and I actually remember I can be truly happy, there are things that make me happy and fulfilled...i'd let myself forget how this felt!
Thanks everyone, all this has just had me looking through old photos of dives I have been on and I actually remember I can be truly happy, there are things that make me happy and fulfilled...i'd let myself forget how this felt!
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I was just going to say that all of these dive pics truely show what a life wasted inside a bottle makes you miss out on. It's a big world out 'there' and you'll never see/experience it on a couch/barstool. Nice pics,ladies!
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Welcome to Weekenders county and MantaLady!
VMan the car show is tomorrow and the weather forecast is frankly brilliant.
Thanks for the Uriah Heep Trach. Sadly quite a few former members were people like us. They are from my part of the world originally.
Gorgeous Spring day here only marred by the number of people I see drinking and smoking themselves senseless.
On days like these it is so wonderful to not have to work and to have the whole day hangover free. Wish I had realised that much earlier but better late than never.
VMan the car show is tomorrow and the weather forecast is frankly brilliant.
Thanks for the Uriah Heep Trach. Sadly quite a few former members were people like us. They are from my part of the world originally.
Gorgeous Spring day here only marred by the number of people I see drinking and smoking themselves senseless.
On days like these it is so wonderful to not have to work and to have the whole day hangover free. Wish I had realised that much earlier but better late than never.
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