Hello, divers!
After about five years of diving around the Caribbean, I took five years off cause my life got a little too crazy for leisure travel... Last December, I stumbled on an incredible flight/hotel/food package that was too good to pass up. Spent four days on Grand Bahama, snorkeled my heart out, loved it but of course the small reef outside the hotel just made me hungry to go diving again.
Now, I'm headed back to the same place in just two weeks, and while I've been telling myself I don't need to spend the extra money for diving... well... you know how it is.
I. Want. To. Dive!
Specifically, I'm tempted by shark alley... I keep reading about how incredible this experience is but then it seems a little theatrical to me... I wonder about the animals and their stress levels and such. I certainly don't wanna be some jerk annoying fish for my own sheets 'n gargles.
So I'm trying to talk myself outta this but on the other hand... it really does sound very cool to swim with sharks. I've never actually seen a shark yet... well, I saw a really little nurse shark sleeping, once, but that was more a "Oh, neat" moment than the "OH MY GOD!" experience that reviewers of shark alley tend to say it is.
Thoughts?
Also... can anyone recommend a good dive operator in the Freeport/Port Lacaya area? I'm staying at Viva Fortuna Beach (Wyndham), which has its own dive shop but often these resort-run shops are overly expensive and often not terribly invested in building good dive buzz in the community. I'm a big fan of word-of-mouth recommendations...
Thanks so much for checking this post out... Have a great holiday weekend, everyone!
After about five years of diving around the Caribbean, I took five years off cause my life got a little too crazy for leisure travel... Last December, I stumbled on an incredible flight/hotel/food package that was too good to pass up. Spent four days on Grand Bahama, snorkeled my heart out, loved it but of course the small reef outside the hotel just made me hungry to go diving again.
Now, I'm headed back to the same place in just two weeks, and while I've been telling myself I don't need to spend the extra money for diving... well... you know how it is.
I. Want. To. Dive!
Specifically, I'm tempted by shark alley... I keep reading about how incredible this experience is but then it seems a little theatrical to me... I wonder about the animals and their stress levels and such. I certainly don't wanna be some jerk annoying fish for my own sheets 'n gargles.
So I'm trying to talk myself outta this but on the other hand... it really does sound very cool to swim with sharks. I've never actually seen a shark yet... well, I saw a really little nurse shark sleeping, once, but that was more a "Oh, neat" moment than the "OH MY GOD!" experience that reviewers of shark alley tend to say it is.
Thoughts?
Also... can anyone recommend a good dive operator in the Freeport/Port Lacaya area? I'm staying at Viva Fortuna Beach (Wyndham), which has its own dive shop but often these resort-run shops are overly expensive and often not terribly invested in building good dive buzz in the community. I'm a big fan of word-of-mouth recommendations...
Thanks so much for checking this post out... Have a great holiday weekend, everyone!