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Scuba Forum / General / September 2007Looking for Bullshark..Kurt
I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the last time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an island in the Indopacific area owned by some Swiss guy, that was the best dive resort he had ever been exposed to...As Sandra and I just returned from 10 days in Fiji, now Sandra wants to go back, and Kurt's description has her excited about making this the next destination. Can anyone give me bullshark's email address? Thanks, Dan Volker use dan@sfdj.com to email me p.s. you guys should see Sandra's photos of the top Beqa Lagoon dive sites !!!!! DanVolker <dan@sfdj.com> wrote in news:1189269107.606730.41530 @o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com: > I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the last > time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an island in [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > you guys should see Sandra's photos of the top Beqa Lagoon dive > sites !!!!! Based on your description I would say he was talking about Wakatobi On Sep 8, 1:03 pm, Michael Wolf <michael.w...@advalvasstopspam.be> wrote: > DanVolker <d...@sfdj.com> wrote in news:1189269107.606730.41530 > @o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Thanks..when I ran Wakatobi by Sandra, she remembered that this was the place bullshark was talking about....looks like we are going to be going there next major dive trip...maybe Christmas time if it is not rainy season there or equiv...anyone else want to go? Our trip to Beqa Lagoon Resort ( Fiji) was awesome, and was improved dramatically by us being part of a group of 16 divers, all with waaayyy over 100 dives each.(thanks to Don and Judy Paschal who organized the trip)... . We got to do any site we wanted to. This would be something to shoot for with Wakatobi as well. Regards, Dan Volker DanVolker <dan@sfdj.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Our trip to Beqa Lagoon Resort ( Fiji) was awesome, and was improved :dramatically by us being part of a group of 16 divers, all with :waaayyy over 100 dives each.(thanks to Don and Judy Paschal who :organized the trip)... . Did you bring your free diving fins on this trip? How did you pack them? Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > DanVolker <d...@sfdj.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: > :Our trip to Beqa Lagoon Resort ( Fiji) was awesome, and was improved [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==----http://www.newsfeeds.comThe #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- I brought some hit new carbon fiber freedive fins, in a big Rob Allen Fin and gear bag ( for freedivers). I had 2 pairs of freediving fins in a freedive bag, inside the Rob Allen bag, this wrapped with my Sporasub wet suit and other soft stuff....zero damage. The Fijians went crazy of my fins !! :-) I did about 75% freediving, 25% scuba diving...Most of the dives were sea mounts going from 8 feet from surface, down to around 60 to 90 feet. Awesome place for freediving! > I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the last > time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an island in [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > you guys should see Sandra's photos of the top Beqa Lagoon dive > sites !!!!! Last I knew, it was spaugh@gmail.com m > I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the last > time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an island in [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > you guys should see Sandra's photos of the top Beqa Lagoon dive > sites !!!!! Man, they will let anyone in here... > I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the last > time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an island in > the Indopacific area owned by some Swiss guy, that was the best dive > resort he had ever been exposed to...As Sandra and I just returned > from 10 days in Fiji, now Sandra wants to go back, and Kurt's > description has her excited about making this the next destination. Dan, if you find out the name of the place, please share the info with me, either here or by email. Thanks!! >> I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the >> last time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Dan, if you find out the name of the place, please share the info with > me, either here or by email. Thanks!! Chilly, check out Wakatobi: it's Swiss-owned and in the Indopacific... On Sep 8, 2:51 pm, Michael Wolf <michael.w...@advalvasstopspam.be> wrote: > >> I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the > >> last time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Chilly, check out Wakatobi: it's Swiss-owned and in the Indopacific.. So is Gangga Island, rumored to be another great place, but I agree that bullshark must have been talking about Wakatobi. > > I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the last > > time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an island in [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Dan, if you find out the name of the place, please share the info with me, > either here or by email. Thanks!! Wakatobi.... http://www.wakatobi.com/homepage.html If you are interested, let me know...I would like to get at least 5 or 6 divers to go with--it provides juice with the diveboat, to go to the sites you want to dive :-) Regards, Dan Volker > Wakatobi....http://www.wakatobi.com/homepage.html > > If you are interested, let me know...I would like to get at least 5 or > 6 divers to go with--it provides juice with the diveboat, to go to the > sites you want to dive :-) How do you know what sites you want to dive if you've never dove there? > > Wakatobi....http://www.wakatobi.com/homepage.html > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > How do you know what sites you want to dive if you've never dove there? :^) I was thinking that myself. I'd be happy with any, not having dove them before. Not that Wakatobi should be compared to Koh Tao in anyway, but it would have been good to have an influencial group with me on that trip. I ended up at the same dive site at least 4-5 times on that trip and it was the least favorable site for me. Should such a thing happen at a Wakatobi, a larger group would be able to stop that nonsense. "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Not that Wakatobi should be compared to Koh Tao in anyway, but it would have :been good to have an influencial group with me on that trip. I ended up at [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] :Should such a thing happen at a Wakatobi, a larger group would be able to :stop that nonsense. I've always had good luck letting the boat driver pick the dive site. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > > Wakatobi....http://www.wakatobi.com/homepage.html > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > How do you know what sites you want to dive if you've never dove there? High current dives get passed over on "average diver" mix boats, but they frequently have by far the best fauna and flora. If I hear they have dives they can;t take most people on, then these will be dives I will want to hear more about :-) > High current dives get passed over on "average diver" mix boats, but > they frequently have by far the best fauna and flora. > If I hear they have dives they can;t take most people on, then these > will be dives I will want to hear more about :-) I've done a lot of these sort of dives and often found that the purpose was more in the thrill of doing the dive rather than in seeing anything worthwhile. Still, the website mentions they have sites for "instructor-level" divers. They'll also rent you a pony and let you dive solo if you're "instructor-level". Most of the divers that make it out to Wakatobi tend to be more experienced than the average, I'd imagine. People don't spend that kind of time and money getting to a place in the middle of nowhere where there's nothing to do but dive unless they're serious about diving. > > High current dives get passed over on "average diver" mix boats, but > > they frequently have by far the best fauna and flora. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > where there's nothing to do but dive unless they're serious about > diving. I would have thought the same of Beqa Lagoon Resort, but the two other boats were full of divers that did not like currents, and who got injured getting back on the boat in 4 to 5 foot seas--not exactly that challenging... And thrills are a good part of diving :-) DanVolker <dan@sfdj.com> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :I would have thought the same of Beqa Lagoon Resort, but the two other :boats were full of divers that did not like currents, and who got :injured getting back on the boat in 4 to 5 foot seas--not exactly that :challenging... :And thrills are a good part of diving :-) Note to self, don't dive with Dan Volker. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > > > I don't know if bullshark ( Kurt) post here muc any more, but the last > > > time he was on splashdown with Sandra, he told her about an island in [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 6 divers to go with--it provides juice with the diveboat, to go to the > sites you want to dive :-) Wakatobi is already high on my list and it is also convenient for me if I include it in a trip to see my family in SE Asia. Did you say you were going at Xmas?? If so, that is probably too soon for me to organize now. > > > "DanVolker" <d...@sfdj.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Sandra "wants" to go Christmas...I don't know if we will have anybody to go with by then, so we may have to wait longer..plus, I don't really want to dive durring a rainy season, so I will have to find out if this is taking place during Christmas at Wakatobi that time of year ( it would be rainy season at Beqa lagoon Resort.). Let me know dates that appeal to you. Regards, DanV > Sandra "wants" to go Christmas...I don't know if we will have anybody > to go with by then, so we may have to wait longer..plus, I don't > really want to dive durring a rainy season, so I will have to find out > if this is taking place during Christmas at Wakatobi that time of year > ( it would be rainy season at Beqa lagoon Resort.). It will be rainy season and the resort is closed between Jan and mid-March. > Let me know dates that appeal to you. I'm looking at April-May 2009, since my 2008 bigger excursion vacations are pretty much determined I'll keep you posted if there's any change in that. Thanks! > > Sandra "wants" to go Christmas...I don't know if we will have anybody > > to go with by then, so we may have to wait longer..plus, I don't [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > It will be rainy season and the resort is closed between Jan and mid-March. Yes it is, but no it's not. They went year-round this year. > I'm looking at April-May 2009, since my 2008 bigger excursion vacations are > pretty much determined I'll keep you posted if there's any change in that. Coral bleaching is scheduled to decimate Wakatobi next October. You might want to get there before then. > > > Sandra "wants" to go Christmas...I don't know if we will have anybody > > > to go with by then, so we may have to wait longer..plus, I don't [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Yes it is, but no it's not. They went year-round this year. OK, that's cool. Do they have hot/warm water for their showers in the rooms? > > I'm looking at April-May 2009, since my 2008 bigger excursion vacations are > > pretty much determined I'll keep you posted if there's any change in that. > > Coral bleaching is scheduled to decimate Wakatobi next October. You > might want to get there before then. Scheduled, hunh? Oh my. > > > "DanVolker" <d...@sfdj.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > OK, that's cool. Do they have hot/warm water for their showers in the > rooms? "The toilets and showers are western standard with hot and cold running fresh water and a set of complimentary aroma therapy bath soaps, schampoos and lotions." -- www.wakatobi.com Hot running water in the toilets would be great - I could schampoo and rinse my hair so much quicker. The rate isn't too bad, about the same as a luxury liveaboard. The add-on for the Bali-Wakatobi flight is about the same as I paid for the Quito-Galapagos flight and for the price of the boat, I could get a fancy villa at Wakatobi: "Enjoy the glass washbowls in the bathroom and the floor to ceiling glass wall of the shower through which you can see the ocean and sunset." There's not much more in life more enjoyable than a glass washbowl. I bet their toilet doesn't explode either. Perhaps I had better go in September, before the bleaching starts. > > Coral bleaching is scheduled to decimate Wakatobi next October. You > > might want to get there before then. > > Scheduled, hunh? Oh my. This is NOAA's supersecret prediction for coral bleaching for the next 6 months: http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/current/crblrg_ssthspte_6m.html But they don't know what I know. Mine info comes from the top: Al Gore. > > OK, that's cool. Do they have hot/warm water for their showers in the > > rooms? > > "The toilets and showers are western standard with hot and cold > running fresh water and a set of complimentary aroma therapy bath > soaps, schampoos and lotions." -- www.wakatobi.com Mmm, yummy . . .I always enjoy a good schampoos. > Hot running water in the toilets would be great - I could schampoo and > rinse my hair so much quicker. Wouldn't even need to curl it afterwards, it would already be all twirly. > The rate isn't too bad, about the same as a luxury liveaboard. The > add-on for the Bali-Wakatobi flight is about the same as I paid for > the Quito-Galapagos flight and for the price of the boat, I could get > a fancy villa at Wakatobi: "Enjoy the glass washbowls in the bathroom > and the floor to ceiling glass wall of the shower through which you > can see the ocean and sunset." And can all the other guests turn from the sunset and view you? > There's not much more in life more enjoyable than a glass washbowl. I > bet their toilet doesn't explode either. You've had the exploding toilet treatment? > Perhaps I had better go in September, before the bleaching starts. It is September, when are you leaving? > > > Coral bleaching is scheduled to decimate Wakatobi next October. You > > > might want to get there before then. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > But they don't know what I know. Mine info comes from the top: Al > Gore. Well, doesn't matter. Until I win the lottery, I can only take so many vacations a year. > And can all the other guests turn from the sunset and view you? If they have good eyes, like those DMs who can spot pygmy seahorses a mile away. > You've had the exploding toilet treatment? Courtesy of the Sky Dancer. That's why I'm down on liveaboards right now. I figure I have a better chance with a land toilet, unless there's a tsunami or earthquake afoot. > It is September, when are you leaving? Hopefully in a year if my new money-making scheme works out. The bleaching isn't until next October. > Well, doesn't matter. Until I win the lottery, I can only take so many > vacations a year. Maybe you'll discover a shipwreck full of gold the next time you go out diving in Indonesia. I doubt the chances of that are much worse than winning the lottery. > > And can all the other guests turn from the sunset and view you? > > If they have good eyes, like those DMs who can spot pygmy seahorses a > mile away. Are you suggesting that there might be some significant part of you that is only as big as a pygmy seahorse? > > You've had the exploding toilet treatment? > > Courtesy of the Sky Dancer. That's why I'm down on liveaboards right > now. I figure I have a better chance with a land toilet, unless > there's a tsunami or earthquake afoot. My gosh. Were you sitting on it at the time? > > It is September, when are you leaving? > > Hopefully in a year if my new money-making scheme works out. The > bleaching isn't until next October. You expect payout before September 2008? > > Well, doesn't matter. Until I win the lottery, I can only take so many > > vacations a year. > > Maybe you'll discover a shipwreck full of gold the next time you go > out diving in Indonesia. I doubt the chances of that are much worse > than winning the lottery. Uh, Greg, pay attention!! I need to win the lottery to get to Indonesia to go diving to look for treasure before April 2009. In the meantime, without the lottery, the plans are for less expensive dive trips, France and Greece . . but all plans are in the very early stages. Anything could happen. |
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