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Andrew and Vera
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Birding in Sulawesi, Indonesia
🇮🇩 Indonesia🗓️ Oct 15 – 16, 2025📝 Dec 20
More photos, videos and stories: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LN9ZkNX5m12iY7Ny9 Note: almost all the photos here were taken on Andrew's iPhone through...
Bangka, Indonesia
🇮🇩 Bangka Belitung Islands, Indonesia🗓️ Oct 10 – 14, 2025📝 Dec 15
More photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iT6GB2D6B3EinJqA9 Coral Eye Since Siladen couldn’t accommodate us for a full week, after four days packed with...
Black Water Diving - Siladen
🇮🇩 North Sulawesi, Indonesia🗓️ Oct 9, 2025📝 Dec 5
What Is Black Water Diving? Black water diving is an unusual type of night diving where instead of focusing on a reef or patch of sand, you dive into...
Siladen, Sulawesi (Indonesia)
🇮🇩 North Sulawesi, Indonesia🗓️ Oct 6 – 10, 2025📝 Nov 19
More photos for this post: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1yfGk4S1ryM92Y169 SULAWESI Our first stop in Indonesia was Siladen, a tiny island off of...
Indonesia
🇮🇩 Indonesia🗓️ Oct 6 – 7, 2025📝 Nov 18
We made it to Indonesia! Indonesia is the cornerstone of our Sabbatical. It’s our longest visit - 6 weeks - centered around a dive destination we’ve...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia🗓️ Oct 3 – 6, 2025📝 Oct 31
Our final stop before returning to diving was an all-too-brief visit to Kuala Lumpur (KL) to see our dear college friend, Su San, and her family. ...
Singapore
🇸🇬 Singapore🗓️ Sep 29 – Oct 3, 2025📝 Oct 30
After ~2 months in the water we took a long surface interval in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Our main motivation was too see friends, but we...
Tonga
🇹🇴 Tonga🗓️ Sep 23 – 27, 2025📝 Oct 29
Tonga. Wow. Here we spent precious moments face to face with humpback whales. For about 30 minutes, in few minute chunks over 4 days, we swam on the...
Land Tour of Taveuni
🇫🇯 Northern Division, Fiji🗓️ Sep 13 – 21, 2025📝 Oct 29
More photos and details in the album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/z8z1tdZK64aaQVXv7 Note: almost all of this comes from our tour guide, Zach, whose...
Diving in Taveuni, Fiji
🇫🇯 Northern Division, Fiji🗓️ Sep 13 – 21, 2025📝 Oct 13
Next up, the third largest island in Fiji, Taveuni. Also known as “the garden island” this lush island has great volcanic soil but is most famous...
Savusavu, Fiji
🗓️ Sep 7 – 13, 2025📝 Oct 1
Vanua Levu In keeping with our ordered tour of Fiji, our second stop was to the second largest island: Vanua Levu. Again this week we were joined by...
Volivoli, Fiji
🇫🇯 Volivoli, Western Division, Fiji🗓️ Aug 30 – Sep 7, 2025📝 Sep 22
Our first diving destination in Fiji was Volivoli, at the northern tip of the island of Viti Levu. Viti Levu is also the biggest island, so it's...
Intro to Fiji
🇫🇯 Fiji🗓️ Aug 31 – Sep 21, 2025📝 Sep 22
Crossroads Our next adventure was 3 weeks in Fiji, the deservedly named “Soft Coral Capital of the World”. Though Fiji is technically just outside...
Solomon Airlines (Solomon Islands)
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands🗓️ Aug 25 – 30, 2025📝 Sep 22
First encounters How does one travel around the Solomon Islands when not on a liveaboard? Between some islands you can take ferries, but this takes...
Uepi Island - Solomons
🇸🇧 Western Province, Solomon Islands🗓️ Aug 25 – 29, 2025📝 Sep 11
Heading West In the New Georgia Islands of the Solomons, west of where the liveaboards usually reach, is a gorgeous area called Marovo Lagoon....
Solomons Liveaboard
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands🗓️ Aug 15 – 24, 2025📝 Aug 27
On Sunday we completed 10 days aboard the Solomons Master Liveaboard, doing the "Best of Solomons" circuit which includes Russell Islands, the...
First Impressions - Solomon Islands
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands🗓️ Aug 13 – 14, 2025📝 Aug 14
Our first dive trip is a live-a-board boat in Solomon Islands, but first we had 2 uneventful days in Nadi, Fiji and 2 days in Honiara, Solomons to...
Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
🇺🇸 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States🗓️ Jul 22 – 27, 2025📝 Aug 14
Photos and stories coming soon, check back here! ...
Alaska with Friends
🇺🇸 Alaska, United States🗓️ Jul 13 – 20, 2025📝 Aug 14
In mid July we tagged along on a big friends trip to Alaska! Departing from Seattle, we visited Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria, British...
Washington State and Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show
🇺🇸 Sisters, Oregon, United States🗓️ Jul 4 – 12, 2025📝 Aug 14
The first stage of our Sabbatical was taking the month of July to travel the US. July 4th We started with July 4th in Washington State with Vera's...
So long California, see you in 2026!
🇺🇸 California, United States🗓️ Jul 1 – 3, 2025📝 Aug 13
Here we (Andrew and Vera) will chronicle our 6-month Sabbatical journey, focusing on diving in the tropical Pacific. Subscribe to get alerts when we...