- Aquatic Sports & Adventures Goes Diving!
Some photos of our updated signage and photos taken from a couple of dive trips to the amazing scuba and snorkel dive sites in Manzanillo Mexico. I purchased two digital cameras for use in teaching Digital Underwater Photography. I finally had a chance to actually get one in the water. The underwater photos are from a single dive at our Los Carrizales (The Reeds) dive site.
The official website for the 'Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative', a region-wide movement to understand, conserve and recover
hawksbills in the eastern Pacific is still under construction.
However, it all started with our small project called Proyecto CAREY (hawksbill project), which you can read about here:
http://www.propeninsula.org/content/1/1/15.html
- Palm Tree Trimming & Harvesting
Our friend, Ricardo, has started to return with some regularity to help keep the palm trees trimmed. This is the same Ricardo that "harvested" the iguana for stew way back in "The Day of the Iguana(s)" album. I'm fascinated with his work because there is a lot of risks and no real safety equipment. Some of the palms are very tall, scorpions like palm trees, black wasps build nests in them etc. Ricardo has fallen about 6 meters (30 feet) at one point in his career and woke up in the emergency room with his family around him. Anyway...palm trees and coconuts.
- Social Activities & First Scuba Class
Richard organized a paella party with some friends, staff etc.
We held our first Scuba Class to train staff!
Richard and I went with our concrete worker friend, Luis, to a rodeo.
A couple photos of critter visitors.
An Iguana sanctuary found.
- 2009-06-02 Manzanillo Update
A look at what we've been doing in recent weeks.
- Aquatic Sports & Adventures
General photos of Aquatic Sports & Adventures facilities and property. Located in beautiful Manzanillo, Mexico. Come Dive Manzanillo! Fantastic dive sites and an incredible array of marine life.
- Nathan's LOCKS OF LOVE Donation for his Mother
Nathan is the Operations Manager for Aquatic Sports and Adventures. He has been growing his hair for a long time. 3+ years I believe. He was very concerned about getting it cut in Mexico and then shipping it back to the USA (human hair, some weird import/export thing, lost mail) and how it got cut to keep with Locks Of Love standards. He was concerned that after all these years of growing he didn't want some minor oversight to make his hair unusable. Anyway, he made a return to the USA on a Friday and got it cut the very next morning to Locks Of Love standards. I think he was tired of it.
Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. http://www.locksoflove.org/
You can reach nathan at: nathan@aquaticsportsadventures.com