dirtfarmer
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Each year the non-diving wife and I take a month long vacation in January.
We like beaches, good food, are ok with staying at isolated resorts but prefer having a choice going out to eat.
Our budget tops out around $200/day for lodging,food,drink. I can add in diving costs.
We don't spend our time in one area and usually go to two or three spots.
For diving I prefer high quality diving, I'm a photographer and shoot both macro and wide angle. I love coral and muck and long dives 60 min or more and small groups. The wife loves it when I have short boat trips so I'm not gone all day. I will for a week or two dive my but off doing 3 dives a day, but again the wife does like it when I'm not gone all day. The second two weeks I like to be able to dive once or twice a day when I get bored, and this is where short trips really count.
So here's where we've been.
Bali 2x's (Tulamben-Lembongan-Gili's)
Philippines 3x's (Dauin/Apo-Alona-Siquior-Anilao- Malapascua-Sipilay)
Thailand 2x's (not a ton of diving here- a Simillan liveaboard- before the bleaching event and Koh Tao ( no on this not good enough diving and way to many crowds in the water),and a dive to Sail Rock off off Koh Phangan)
On my own solo trips I' done
Palau
Sipadan
Bunaken
Lembeh 3x's
Komodo liveaboard 2x's
(and by next Jan will have done Raja Ampat liveaboard)
I'm thinking Thailand on the Andaman side, we were do to go to Koh Phi Phi the year of the Tsunami, but she's never been there I've been to Koh Lanta and Koh Mook before on my own before I was certified. I am reticent about Thailand due to the bleaching, I've heard the coral above 10-15 meters is dead and that would make the dives on the short time.
Or how about off the beaten path in Indo or Malaysia?
We like beaches, good food, are ok with staying at isolated resorts but prefer having a choice going out to eat.
Our budget tops out around $200/day for lodging,food,drink. I can add in diving costs.
We don't spend our time in one area and usually go to two or three spots.
For diving I prefer high quality diving, I'm a photographer and shoot both macro and wide angle. I love coral and muck and long dives 60 min or more and small groups. The wife loves it when I have short boat trips so I'm not gone all day. I will for a week or two dive my but off doing 3 dives a day, but again the wife does like it when I'm not gone all day. The second two weeks I like to be able to dive once or twice a day when I get bored, and this is where short trips really count.
So here's where we've been.
Bali 2x's (Tulamben-Lembongan-Gili's)
Philippines 3x's (Dauin/Apo-Alona-Siquior-Anilao- Malapascua-Sipilay)
Thailand 2x's (not a ton of diving here- a Simillan liveaboard- before the bleaching event and Koh Tao ( no on this not good enough diving and way to many crowds in the water),and a dive to Sail Rock off off Koh Phangan)
On my own solo trips I' done
Palau
Sipadan
Bunaken
Lembeh 3x's
Komodo liveaboard 2x's
(and by next Jan will have done Raja Ampat liveaboard)
I'm thinking Thailand on the Andaman side, we were do to go to Koh Phi Phi the year of the Tsunami, but she's never been there I've been to Koh Lanta and Koh Mook before on my own before I was certified. I am reticent about Thailand due to the bleaching, I've heard the coral above 10-15 meters is dead and that would make the dives on the short time.
Or how about off the beaten path in Indo or Malaysia?
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