Hammerhead
Contributor
Well, two years after I first booked the trip, I finally ended up walking in Darwin's footsteps. Why the silly sod never learnt to dive, I'll never know 
This has been a burning desire of mine since my early 'teens and so I can rightly say that I fulfilled a life's ambition.
Needless to say, it's never as easy as all that.
I now work in North Africa, and had to send my underwater housing / strobes etc. by sea mail to my new address when I left home (Hong Kong). The delays that followed of course meant that I never received the container before heading out to Ecuador.
Diving holiday of a lifetime and no camera to record it is not a good thing. No way was I going to go that far and not get a couple of shots.
Luckily I have very good friends, and this time, both friends and strangers went the extra yard to help me out.
In the 10 days before my departure, I had different people buying things for me in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. All of these were then transported by the buyers to Ecuador on my behalf.
Net result was that my Canon 5D stayed in the house, and I took delivery of a brand new Canon G9 with Ikelite housing and Inon stobes on arrival in Ecuador.
Where I live now, there's no way I could have bought the equipment I needed, so the fact that these photos are here is 99% thanks to them. I just try to point the camera in the right direction.
Two board members, pakman and Wolverine were supposed to come, but had to cancel. Whilst I enjoy rubbing peoples noses in it as much as the next insensitive prick; fellers, I really wish you could have come.
Here we go. There's a lot to go through.
All shots are pretty much as they came out of the camera.
Edit. Because I am anally retentive to some degree, the pics follow a sort of order as follows: -
Scenery
Seals
Birds
Reptiles
Crabs (1 shot)
Seals underwater
Turtles
Rays
Whalesharks
Other sharks
Hammerheads
Rum (1 shot)
End (1 shot)
Me (1 shot)
I hope you enjoy them; it's a magical place.
Cheers.
This has been a burning desire of mine since my early 'teens and so I can rightly say that I fulfilled a life's ambition.
Needless to say, it's never as easy as all that.
I now work in North Africa, and had to send my underwater housing / strobes etc. by sea mail to my new address when I left home (Hong Kong). The delays that followed of course meant that I never received the container before heading out to Ecuador.
Diving holiday of a lifetime and no camera to record it is not a good thing. No way was I going to go that far and not get a couple of shots.
Luckily I have very good friends, and this time, both friends and strangers went the extra yard to help me out.
In the 10 days before my departure, I had different people buying things for me in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. All of these were then transported by the buyers to Ecuador on my behalf.
Net result was that my Canon 5D stayed in the house, and I took delivery of a brand new Canon G9 with Ikelite housing and Inon stobes on arrival in Ecuador.
Where I live now, there's no way I could have bought the equipment I needed, so the fact that these photos are here is 99% thanks to them. I just try to point the camera in the right direction.
Two board members, pakman and Wolverine were supposed to come, but had to cancel. Whilst I enjoy rubbing peoples noses in it as much as the next insensitive prick; fellers, I really wish you could have come.
Here we go. There's a lot to go through.
All shots are pretty much as they came out of the camera.
Edit. Because I am anally retentive to some degree, the pics follow a sort of order as follows: -
Scenery
Seals
Birds
Reptiles
Crabs (1 shot)
Seals underwater
Turtles
Rays
Whalesharks
Other sharks
Hammerheads
Rum (1 shot)
End (1 shot)
Me (1 shot)
I hope you enjoy them; it's a magical place.
Cheers.
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