British Virgin Islands, Moorings Bareboat May, 1984

I've got a new photo scanning application on my iphone. Below are some photos from a wonderful ten day bareboat trip with a Moorings Boat in 1984 with Greg and Chris Hoberg. To see more, please go to: https://photos.app.goo.gl/PgevEFh1392ko4Uq8

The underwater photographs were taken with my Nikonos IV uw camera purchased in 1982. Below: Gray Angelfish

Donna and I had a long encounter with a large Great Barracuda that was fascinated by my camera's shiny reflective strobe. Below:

Below: Nurse Shark

A beautiful Rock Hind, below:

Jacks with a cleaner wrasse at a cleaning station. Below:

Greg and I took our sailboat's skiff out to some offshore rocks and found a big shoal of baitfish with tarpon coming through to eat them. A great experience. Below:

Donna and I on our bareboat anchored off "The Baths" on the island of Virgin Gorda. I've got on my tshirt from our 1978 honeymoon on Cayman Brac. Below:

I got in some wind surfing, and also got Greg started with it, using a windsurfer that came with our boat. Below:

Late in the afternoon of our last day and night on our boat, Greg and I spotted a large spiny lobster but it was well positioned in a deep hole. Greg's shoulders were too large to get back into the hole to get a good grip on the lobster but I realized I could wriggle into it. Greg came down once I had time to get into the hole and grab the lobater in order to pull me out. We had a great lobster dinner. Below:

What a great trip we had!

Last Two Dives at Lembeh (post retirement dives 942 and 943) and a Monkey Hike May 12, 2026

Our last two dives were at Tamjung Kubar and Teluk Kambahu (TK1), then, in the afternoon, since we couldn't dive within 24 hours of our departure flight, a few of us went on a Monkey Hike at Tangkoko Wildlife reserve nearby (well, a 20 minute boatride and a 1 hr and 15 minute drive). Below are some photos from our 8 am dive at Tamjung Kubar, to see more, please go to: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Tacn3gxy4Jm4nZMJA A White Spotted Puffer, below:

Wonderful Shrimp Goby (not sure the species) and its Pistol Shrimp. Below:

Thorny Sea Horse. Below:

A Magnificent Fan Shrimp Goby, below. It is well named!

Dragon Nudibranch, below:

Tiny (3/4 inch), cute, Filefish. Below:

Another cute small, very active, juvenile Barramundi Cod. Below:

Our last dive of the trip was at Teluk Kambahu. Below are some photos from the dive, to see the rest, please go to: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ySRaajYdczogtGt76 We saw two Painted Frogfish on this dive. Below:

A Goniobranchus reticulatus Nudibranch. Below:

A beautiful nudibranch, . Below:Hypselodoris zephyra.

Another wonderful Shrimp Goby (species tbd) and her room mate. Below:

We saw a squadron of about a dozen Bigfin Squid, each about a foot long. Below:

Sexy Shrimp, maybe 1/2 inch long. Below:

Poss's Scorpionfish. Below:

Small, maybe 1/2 inch, nudibranch. Below:

Snowflake Moray. Below:

For the afternoon, since we couldn't dive because of our flights the next day, several of us signed up to visit Tangkoko Wildlife Reserve and see its Celebes Crested Macaque monkeys, which are endangered. Photos below:

We continued our hike until dusk in order to see a Tarsier, a very small (maybe 5 inch) primate, the world's smallest, endemic to Sulawesi. Below:

Goodbye to our dive boat Andrea, its crew, our fellow Andrea divers, and the wonderful Lembeh Resort, its staff, and Richard Salas and the wonderful group he assembled for this trip. For me, 34 wonderful dives in 11 days, executing my retirement plan, which is to go diving, reaching 943 retirement dives.Below:

The dive cameras. Mine has the red Inon strobe, reliable with heavy usage since 2007!