CIDA Dive Vacation Reports

The Jade Cove along the Big Sur coastline is one of my most favorite areas to visit other than Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Why you might ask? Because it is beautiful, exciting, magical, mystical & exhilarating! Actually, that describes both areas. The BEST thing is you can collect Jade along the shoreline and underwater while […]

Jupiter & Palm Beach dive vacation report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on Sept. 1 & 9, 2018, and was one of the best! What a great trip and so glad all the prior planning paid off! Trips like this are not that easy to plan and execute because there is no

The Solomon Islands dive vacation report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was in May on the Bilikiki with several extra days spent in Brisbane, Australia. Recently my wife Tessie and I returned from a trip to the Solomon Islands with a stopover in Brisbane, Australia for 4 days. This was a trip I

Bonaire trip report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. We stayed at Buddy Dive the week of Feb. 17-25, 2018, and had a great time. There are very few places that a diver can do some fun and rather easy shore dives, boat dives, and explore the island they are visiting on their own time and

Sea of Cortez trip report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on the Rocio Del Mar on Sept. 2-9, 2017, and turned out to be lots of fun. Like most of the trips, I do this is another planned over 18 months in advance and the only thing you can’t do is plan

God’s Pocket Resort trip report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on August 6-12, 2017, and was another awesome Canadian dive trip. Diving the Pacific Northwest and specifically the far north end of Vancouver Island, B.C. is an experience EVERY cold-water diver should do but don’t wait too long (more on that later)

Cozumel/Blue Angel Resort trip report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on Feb. 11-19, 2017, and turned out fantastic. The last time we had a Cozumel trip was September 2012 so we were quite a bit overdue for another trip back. I really loved where we stayed in 2012, the Aldora Villa, and

Trip report for Cuba Land & Sea Adventure with Oceans for Youth Foundation and Channel Islands Dive Adventures.  It was a People to People group trip from Dec. 29, 2016, to Jan. 7, 2017. Detailed trip report by Ken Kollwitz Cuba, everyone asks “How was it” and all I can say is what a learning

Socorro dive trip report for Channel Islands Dive Adventures. The trip was on the Nautilus Explorer on June 12-22, 2016 and what an awesome trip it was. What is about Socorro that seems to interest everyone? I would have to say until you have been there you just will not fully know but now after