New Year's Eve

Well here is the best photo ever...you know me, always having fun!! This is me on New Year's Eve....I always ring in the New Year UNDERWATER. I have done it for a few years because I was tired of going out and drinking my face off, I wanted to do something different. So one year, my best friend and dive buddy started a NEW tradition.....and we have done it for the last 5 years....this particular year, we had a friend bring some little bottles of champagne....but now there are in the fridge and the NEWEST tradition is to bring them with us, year after year and take new pictures of us WITH the bottles...

So PERHAPS after a number of years, this cheap crappy champagne will actually TASTE better? Or am I just fooling myself????

Either way, the picture is cute.....GOTTA LOVE ME!!!

Hard to believe that it has been a YEAR since I have logged on to my BLOG....how sad is that???

It has been brought to my attention by my friends in Curacao, Belgium and Holland....so guess I need to get on it EH????

So....all is well....I have been living and working in Canada for over 2 years since my return from Curacao. I have been diving like crazy, in fact I have also had to buy all NEW GEAR....so the pocket book is empty.....mostly from a new camera!! Here is one of my best shots....

Enjoy......I promise to come here more often.....so watch for me.....

FROM THE LAND FAR FAR AWAY!!!

Hey Everyone!!!

Well, life is very busy these days!!! I am currently diving pretty much every day, which is REALLY good considering the amount of gear that I have to use up here in the COLD WATERS of British Columbia. BUT.......there is a reason!!! My dive shop is having their annual DIVE CHALLENGE 2008, where there are amazing prizes to be won, just for playing the game!!

I will send some pictures of us playing TEXAS HOLD EM POKER underwater for charity at a later date, but thought that I would post a pretty picture of my first attempt at underwater photography. Well, maybe not so pretty, but what do you expect with a first attempt in cold water....HELLOOOOOO.....can you say numb fingers for pushing the WEEEEEE buttons they put on underwater cameras that are only manufactured for the tropics???

This picture is my dive buddy and fellow photographer.....Jes......

Huggies to all my friends.....will try to up date this thing more often.....Caroline in Canada!!!

Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest

Well, here we go! I have finally been able to log into my Blogger, so that I can bring you up to date!!! A girl must clear her "CACHE" and "HISTORY" in her "Internet Options" area, then log off and then log back in, so that she has a clean computer to do this....so....I have done all that and now I can bring you all up to date, and hope to keep you up to date.....thanks to Freia and Rob!!

I have now been back in Canada for almost a year. It is weird to think that this time last year, I was living my dream of being a scuba instructor and living on a Caribbean Island!!! Shortly there after, I got sick with Dengue and decided to return to Canada. That life is only pictures now....fond pictures, but just that...... pictures......but that is okay too.......because....

I am enjoying myself here in Victoria, on Canada's west coast (we call it the WET COAST, because of all the rain in winter....no snow....just rain). I have a good job. Though it is not my dream job, it is enabling me to live and dive, and visit my friends and family. There is also the hope that I will be able to visit Holland in the next year or two, to do some diving with my Dutch friends!!!

I have just returned from doing an Underwater Pumpkin Carving contest!!! Yup, you got it.....just like it sounds....wrestle a pumpkin full of air, to the bottom of the marina....and start carving with your dive knife!!!! It is fun, and the prizes are very good. I have done it every year. It is so much fun, no matter how cold the weather is outside... I would have liked to have done it in Curacao if the pumpkins had not cost a small fortune!!! As they are grown here, they are very cheap.....I have to learn how to attach pictures (that is my next project), but here is one for fun......

Keep in touch.....love you all.....Caroline in Canada

I am back!!!!

xxxx

SWEET CAROLINE

Hee Honey!!!

Well, things are finally starting to settle down. I have my new apartment that is beautiful, and big!!!! I have a nice BIG bed in a nice BIG bedroom!! A nice step up from my old place. Though I miss the COZY feeling, it is nice not to have to see and hear everything when friends came to visit!! The job is steady, the weather is warming up, but I still haven't had the guts to get back into the COLD WATER!!! For those of you who are my SOUTHERN friends.....STAY THERE!!!!! Except for missing my family, I am still not sure what exactly possessed me to go from a 3mm shortie to a 7mm DRYSUIT....brrrrrrr....a blonde moment for sure.... Here is a picture of what you are NOT missing.....Well, you know how to leave me a message.....Love you all, miss you all..... :)

WET, WET, WET!!!!!!

Hey Gang!
Well, it looks as though the West Coast of Vancouver Island is a WET adventure, so I have decided to stay on the Southern Tip. Still an unemployed BUM, but that is okay, it is only a matter of time before it all comes together....email me and let me know how you are all doing.....
Love ya!!!!