I went to my first temple here in Bangalore yesterday – sad to say but yes, it took me 6 month to go to one – and had a really amazing experience. My friend Ran suggested we go to break up the monotony of the week and it was certainly a good day to go…

 So I have to say that I was happy to be going home from our scuba trip…this is us in the Chennai airport waiting on our flight to Bangalore – Dar had been to an Indian barber and gotten a haircut and a shave for 50 INR ($1.06) in Havelock the day before we left…

The last day of our vacation we spent hanging out – we had to catch a ferry at 3pm (which turned out to be more like 4 pm) – so we read a bit in a hammock and I took a couple of pictures on the beach.  It was a nice day and the beach/water…

There is something about the people who dive – maybe it is the early mornings, long boat rides, toleration of smelly wetsuits or being underwater making up funny signs for fish – but they tend to be pretty cool and humorous.  We were lucky on this trip and met some really neat folks – pics…

Looked about the same on the website accept for the mold, wet clothes and the hammock – hummmmm Big Pink Tent

Our second day of diving was quite good – got ourselves assigned to a group who were better divers and could manage to make their tanks last more than 20 mins.  The boats for the dive trips are the same that the fisherman use with an additional canopy for sun protection.  The trips to the…

After a restful nights sleep – basically Dar and I both died as soon as our heads hit our respective damp (remember very humid) pillows – we were up bright an early at 6:45 am to start our diving!!! I should mention now that I don't have a underwater camera so all the pictures from…

Back at Chennai airport at 5 am relaxed and refreshed, we were ready to get to our final destination…Havelock.  Our flight from Chennai got in at 7:30am to Pt. Blair and we were picked up and went to a hotel we were staying later in the week. The ferry to Pt Blair was at 1:30pm…

Sooo, we get to the airport at 4:40 am – with plenty of time to check in for our 6 am flight accept – It had been cancelled and we had no notice – so we ended up waiting for a 9 am flight and took that to Chennai.  We had a chance to admire…

We leave in less than 5 hours – at 4:00 am ( and yes, I am still awake)  for our vacation in the Andaman Islands – specifically Havelock.  It is about a 6 hour journey to get there – flight to Chennai, then to Pt. Blair in the Andamans, then a ferry to Havelock.  The…