YAP – The Land of Manta Rays, Stone Money, and Gentle People

Manta and Diver - Photo courtesy of Bill Aker, owner of Manta Ray Bay Resort

I got a phone call in the middle of the night from a scuba diving buddy saying, “Manta Ray Dive Resort is hosting MantaFest on Yap next week, grab your camera, dive gear and be there, no excuses,” and then hung up. “MantaFest, Yap, why would I not want to join the fun, take photos, […]

Finding the Sea of Cortez

The appetite for excitement, interesting marine life, and unusual photo opportunities has greatly intensified within the scuba industry. Adventuresome dive travelers eagerly seek out remote, exotic destinations world-wide. 

St. Croix: A Scuba Diver’s Delight

There are very few places in the Caribbean where scuba divers can plan dives on a reef, a wall, a shipwreck, and then do a night dive under a pier — all in one day, or more likely, spaced throughout several days. St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is one of those places.

Guam Glories in Welcoming Visitors

  [dropcap]G[/dropcap]uam offers an exciting, warm, vibrant island paradise experience, with great scuba diving and snorkeling, golf, beach-combing, wonderful shopping with better prices (especially with its duty free status and local markets) and spectacular sight-seeing and landmarks. It’s exotic in its own way, yet American.   It’s “where America’s day begins!” as they say. Morning begins […]