Hello from Houston, Scuba Diving in Micronesia, Update 8
Eric Keibler Aug 13, 2014
Jim With Sharks, photo by Katrina
Adams
We have been home now for a week and I finally feel like I am back in the right time zone.
We had a fun time in Kosrae and got to experience life as eco-tourists for a week. Of course, nothing ever really dried out and when I opened my bags, I knew what my Mother felt like when I returned from camp. Holland laughed when we were talking about it and she said “i added Lysol to the laundry just to make sure that smell went away.” It seems that when clothing is put away in a travel bag for 30 hours where it was exposed to sun on a runway, the belly of three jets and who know what else, it takes on a life of its own. I had to fight the washing machine to just take the clothes — it was not in the mood for cleaning them.
Scuba diving in Kosrae is a little different from other Pacific destinations. The reefs are made up of lots of hard corals with some soft corals. My experience in other areas is that the soft corals are more abundant that the hard corals. One of the more interesting coral formations is a spreading pillar coral which may explain some of the local legends about small cities underwater,
Of course, during my two week absence, Dive Mom saved up a lot of tasks for me including the bill paying and inventory functions of Oceanic Ventures and Eric and Ann, Inc. This meant that I had a lot of accounting to do — which I hate.
We had a fun time in Kosrae and got to experience life as eco-tourists for a week. Of course, nothing ever really dried out and when I opened my bags, I knew what my Mother felt like when I returned from camp. Holland laughed when we were talking about it and she said “i added Lysol to the laundry just to make sure that smell went away.” It seems that when clothing is put away in a travel bag for 30 hours where it was exposed to sun on a runway, the belly of three jets and who know what else, it takes on a life of its own. I had to fight the washing machine to just take the clothes — it was not in the mood for cleaning them.
Scuba diving in Kosrae is a little different from other Pacific destinations. The reefs are made up of lots of hard corals with some soft corals. My experience in other areas is that the soft corals are more abundant that the hard corals. One of the more interesting coral formations is a spreading pillar coral which may explain some of the local legends about small cities underwater,
Of course, during my two week absence, Dive Mom saved up a lot of tasks for me including the bill paying and inventory functions of Oceanic Ventures and Eric and Ann, Inc. This meant that I had a lot of accounting to do — which I hate.
I also have a lot of other demands on my time from students and clients needing equipment and a schedule for training. Life just does not go on hold while traveling in the Pacific.
I have over 500 photographs from my stay in Kosrae to process and ?? I will be posting some of those soon. I know that Holland and Steve have been working on their photographs from Chuuk because they have been posting them on Facebook. And I must say, they took some really fun photographs. I can’t wait to see what they turn in for the Photography Contest.
Keep checking back — I leave for Fiji on Thursday!
