Alison's Adventures!

2007-06-17T10:55:00.000-07:00

Fate!?

For those of you who know I spent near to five years on and off living in Egypt.

The next little village on from where I am living now is called Camels! Always makes me chuckle!

The other coincidence which I didn't even realise until I had bourght the car is that I have purchased a diving number plate! Ata - pressure at sea level is called 1 atmosphere (ata) of pressure!!

2007-06-17T10:50:00.000-07:00

Space/Alien Fancy Dress Evening - St Mawes

Me

Simon

It might be a small community here but they certainley know how to party!

2007-06-17T10:44:00.000-07:00

On the Beach with Tia

2007-06-17T10:40:00.000-07:00

The Victory Inn - St Mawes

This is where I have been pulling pints for the last few months....a real quaint old English pub.

St. Mawes, on the Roseland Peninsula is a pretty harbourside village that looks out over the River Fal towards the busy maritime town of Falmouth. The dramatic Cornish coastline around St. Mawes was used as the setting for the popular television series Poldark.
This is very much a sea faring community, with boats and yachts continually setting anchor in the calm waters just beyond the main harbour. St. Mawes' sheltered location creates a a safe anchorage with easy access to the coast, the Fal and the Carricks Roads - (a large waterway created after the Ice age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise dramatically -creating an immense natural harbour, the world's third largest, which is navigable from Falmouth to Truro).

2007-06-17T10:37:00.000-07:00

Carne Beach - The Roseland - South West Cornwall

This is the beach which is five minutes from my back door - I love walking all over the costal paths and being so near to the ocean......it is just a bit chilly to get in!

2007-02-09T11:18:00.000-08:00

HOME SWEET HOME!

Back to England and the lovely British Winter.....it is actually very refreshing after all that sunshine so much so that as soon as I saw the snow I put on my welly boots and went out for a walk in it. Wrapped up warm from head to toe! This is the weather to get back home and sit infront of the roaring fire with a nice bottle of red wine!

2007-01-16T03:19:00.000-08:00

New Year Under the Stars in the middle of the Ocean

As the bells chimed in the New Year we were out on open decks for the celebrations.

2007-01-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Wishing you all a very Happy & Healthy 2007.......hope to catch up with all my UK friends very soon xxxxx

2007-01-02T16:23:00.000-08:00

Homeward Bound

After 5 months & 2 weeks onboard I have two weeks left to go before I get to go home.

Hoorah!!

I have saved so much money that I have purchased a private yacht and my crew of six hunky men are ready to help me sail back to the British Isles just in time for some lovely British Winter weather!

I will be sailing in on 15th January, see you then x

2007-01-02T16:17:00.000-08:00

Christmas Carols in the Atrium & the Tour Office Team

2007-01-02T15:56:00.000-08:00

Xmas On Board

This was our departments offical photo......I missed it as I was underwater!

2006-11-06T09:11:00.000-08:00

Halloween!!

The whole crew got dressed up and celebrated Halloween with a disco.

It turned into a very messy evening, copious amounts of alcohol and general mis-behaviour!

I was three hours late for work the next day.... I slept through my alarm and the office never called me as they thought I had gone diving. Supposed to start at 6am...arrived to the office at 9.

Some bright spark organised full crew drills at 10am and during lifeboat evacuation I had to be excused to go and vomit! My god I have not been that ill since college days! Never again....I am now on the wagon and if I see another pitchfork or horns again it will be too soon!

2006-10-30T07:52:00.000-08:00

Bored of Blonde!!

Decided to go for a bit of a change and live life as a brunette for a while!

2006-10-28T18:49:00.000-07:00

TOM AND ALBERTO

Congratulations Tom and Alberto on your Open Water Certification......I had the best week.....thanks for the great company and great fun. You are very special people.........

Alberto originally from Cuba is a hairdresser to the rich and famous!!!.........he got out his scissors and his curling tongues and made me look like a lady for the evening!!! A rare occurance!

2006-10-28T18:43:00.000-07:00

CREW DIVE COZUMEL!

Last week we organised a crew dive out to the Chankanaab National Marine Park in Cozumel.

I did wonder when I saw the boat arrive whether we were infact actually going to make it out there and not create a new wreck dive but we did.

We dived Palancar reef which is one of the famous ones.........it was amazing to finally do a deepish dive after weeks of sitting at 8 metres with students.

The hurricane has taken it's toll and the reef above 40ft is covered in sand but never the less still beautiful.

2006-10-28T18:33:00.000-07:00

STINGRAY CITY - GRAND CAYMAN

I got sent on this tour to do a risk assement for the company....I am not a fan of touching the marine life but duty calls.

I managed five minutes in the water with these enormous stingrays sliding, sliming and sucking on my legs and I had to get out and observe the rest of the tour from the boat. The guides thought it was hilarious and could not believe I was a Dive Instructor!

These photos were captured in a very quick moment!

2006-10-25T11:48:00.000-07:00

Yeah Mon!

A few drinks in Jimmy Buffet's Margararitaville, Ocho Rios - Jamaica.

2006-10-18T11:27:00.000-07:00

Dolphin Cove - Jamaica

2006-09-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

Lunch with Kingsley in Grand Cayman....

Ian showed me how to tie the lines on the Thistlegorm many years ago when we were working together in Sharm, Egypt.

Since his Ozzie adventures he is now working in Grand Cayman and I met him for a rather liquid lunch and wobbled back to work a few hours later!!

2006-09-27T11:19:00.000-07:00

Tour Dispatch - Grand Cayman

Up before the sun taking the 6:30am shore side tender over to the pier in Grand Cayman to start doing crowd contol with 2,000 passengers.............

Not the best part of my job but thankfully we only have 2 more Western runs and we will be switching to Eastern Carribean only from 1st Novemer through till June....Horrah!!

2006-09-27T11:13:00.000-07:00

Views of St. Thomas.....

Took a trip up to Paradise Point for the stunning views and the home of the famous Bushwakers drink, even though it was only 9:20am set me up for the day!!

The Caribbean Princess is the one on the right.

2006-09-05T10:35:00.001-07:00

Dolphin Cove - Jamaica

I have always thought as my myslef as a bit of an adventure seeker, jumping out of aeroplanes, diving with sharks but I never thought I would ever be able to have a snake wrapped around my neck......as you can see by the picture I wasn't exactley sure of the situation but I did it anyway followed by having an iguana sit on my back!!

Went to Dolphin Cove in Jamica, swam with the dolphins and then took a walk around the nature trail.

Got offered every drug under the sun on the way back to the ship by lots of big Bob Marley looking scary men! Wish I still had the snake to frighten them off!

2006-09-05T10:23:00.001-07:00

Drinks with the Captain

Captain Guessepe Romano........luckily for me he is a much better driver than the last one who tilted the ship on it's side!

2006-08-08T11:02:00.000-07:00

Helmet Diving - Cozumel Mexico

The ultimate in chick diving.....keeping your hair dry and your make up on!

2006-08-08T10:48:00.000-07:00

My first Open Water Students

Congratualtions to Dan, Lynn, Danny, Steve and Keith.

Thanks for a great week, was lots of fun.