The sun is shining, the temperature is rising and thoughts turn to palm trees swaying in a sultry breeze, warms waters lapping against shore and the delights of dipping beneath azure waters to gaze upon Cousteau's underwater empire. Unfortunately though, such thoughts must be put on an indefinite hold as Covid-19 or SARS 2, The Revenge, as it is probably being called in Hollywood meetings, wreaks havoc on the tourism and aviation industry alike. Still if you can't actually partake of your beloved water sport, you can still gain a modicum of pleasure in browsing the interwebby looking for ..read more

Miyakojima Island: A DSC Quick Guide Who are you looking at? It’s only April and already 2020 is turning into a year to forget. The Covid-19 virus is front and centre in everyone’s mind with half the world’s population going into house arrest, economies going bankrupt and every Tom, Dick and Harry coming up with designs for new ventilators, which it turns out may not be the best way to treat patients. Then there are journalists, politicians and academics the world over systematically blaming China, Donald Trump and each other for the handling (or lack of it) of the situation. So ..read more

We’re back. Of course for most of you this won’t mean a thing, since you never knew who we were anyway and hadn’t noticed we’d gone. But for a few (you lovely people you), our three-year absence from the blogger sphere may have been a bit of a mystery! Had we been sued into silence for offending the scuba diving community? Had we gone on a very long pub-crawl and ended up in rehab? Or had we just got bored with the whole blogging game and become disillusioned with the look-at-me-isn’t-my-life-amazing brigades who seem to infest the web these days? The answer is of course no to all, excep ..read more