| KEITH'S DIVING HOLIDAYS, | GREAT BARRIER REEF, | MARSA SHAGRA, | MARSA SHAGRA 2006, | MARSA SHAGRA 2007, | ZANZIBAR, | BONAIRE, | SIMILAN ISLANDS, | BUNAKEN 2005, | BUNAKEN 2007, | JORDAN |
The dive resort and home to Aqua-Nut Divers
This holiday was the first one I had planned and booked over the net and I was very pleased with the result. I was amazed when I could even access the timetable of Greyhound busses. Bus was my method of travel from Miami International airport to Kelly's on the Bay where I stayed for a week and I was impressed by the comfort, much better than our own National Express, and the courtesy of the driver. He put me down outside Kelly's at mile marker 104.2 which is not a regular stop.
The resort is situated on US-1, known as the Overseas Highway, where addresses are named after the mile markers at the side of the road which stretches all the way to Key West. A long, almost straight road where to my amazement all the drivers kept to the 50 mph speed limit even when the road was clear.
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The dive boats.
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The dive boats
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The dive deck.
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The dock
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The so called refugee raft supposedly used to escape from Cuba.
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The slipway. In the center a courtesy canoe which could be borrowed at any time as could a fixed wheel bicycle. The bicycle took some getting used to as I had not ridden a fixed wheel for many years.
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All the dive boats have to get to the reefs through the buoyed channels in the mangroves.
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By law these channels cannot be dredged nor the mangroves cut.
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Mangroves
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The City of Washington was sunk in 1870 in 8 metres of water and I was very surprised at the paucity of encrustation after so long.
There were however some very nice Sea Fans and Gorgonians and a resident green Moray Eel which was very tame.
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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The resident Moray Eel
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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City of Washington
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Tang
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Box Fish
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Barracuda
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The scenery was dominated by Sea Fans and Gorgonians.
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Sea Fans
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Sea Fans
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Sea Fans
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Scene
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Scene
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Scene
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Gorgonian
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Gorgonian
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Gorgonians
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Gorgonian
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Gorgonian
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Gorgonian
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Gorgonians with Sea Fans
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Gorgonians with Sea Fans
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Sea Fan
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Moray Eel
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Moray Eel being cleaned
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Moray Eel being cleaned
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Nurse Shark
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Nurse Shark
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Nurse Shark
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Me
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Moulted Lobster Skeleton
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Puffer Fish
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Puffer Fish
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Sting Ray
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View
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A lovely relaxed holiday.
My only regret was that a storm blew up on the last day preventing me parasailing.