Travelling Runes

Pulau Anambas, Indonesia

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A few photos from last week's diving trip

An Afternoon at the Botanicals - Singapore

diving in Aur

beutiful weather in Aur, some good dives and acting as a divemaster for first time - hard work!!

Gent Festival

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Managed to arrange it so that I could join Gwyneth on her annual  trip to the Gent Festival.

This is a sort of urban festival - with many musical stages in city squares mostly featuring some very bad music although there are some gems.

The weekend is mostly about shopping, eating, shopping, eating and the occasional jazz band.

The highlight has to be if you can crack the coded messages an find the Stroat Ensemble - a crazy experience that cannot be described - only experienced. See picture to right and click below for more.

Stroat ensemble Web Site - yes I know it is written in "forn"

Sangat, Philippines

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A really great weekend organized thanks to Lars to Sangat off the island of Busuanga in the Philippines.

Sangat is surrounded by about 13 WWII Japanese wrecks - with a maximum depth of about 42M this makes for some really excellant diving.

The resort itself is really well run and a pleasure to visit - see :

Sangat Resort Web Page

Blue Mountains

A weekend in Sydney for work. I managed one day of skydiving but the weather was not good on Sunday - so I managed to find a long, winding dirt road through the blue mountains. Since I was in a unsuitable hire car and did not have a map - I thought that I would take that route. It was a stunning trip  - including wallabies and a kangeroo jumping alongside the car for a bit.

I finished up in Katoomba at a very nice cafe - whose name I cannot remember now which is not much use :) Then a quick rush for the airport it was a good day.

As usual - click on the picture below.

St Anton

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In February, I spent a week Skiing in St Anton.

The snow was very very excellant - and about 1 meter fell while I was there ... powder :) So much snow that Gwyneth almost did not get through on the train.

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Similan Diving

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I took a trip in January on board the Black Manta to the Similan Islands in Thailand for some diving.

This was about the best diving trip I have ever been on. There is an impressive amount of wildlife - including Leopard sharks and lots of Manta - as well the more lethal types of fish and lots more besides.

As usual - click on the picture below to access lots of pictures.