One exciting way to get a deeper cultural immersion in Tulum is to go snorkeling! I've gone out with Mexi Divers twice now and have had great experiences both times. Their office is centrally located in Tulum and takes off right…
88° in Santa Barbara means canceling all plans and parking oneself in a pool. STAYCATION! My friend and I took the day off and spent it in style out at the Goodland Hotel in Goleta, about 15 minutes north of Santa…
Our go-to beach this summer has been all Loon Point, all the time! Every day is a different scene from the same exact spot on the coast. We pack up all of the umbrellas we can find, a cooler full of rosés, sauv blancs or chards, the owl kite and our GoPros and the rest of the magic delivers itself!
Since we had so much fun at Maluaka with the turtles, we planned our last day there on another turtle mission. Apparently the turtles like to get up and at em pretty early, so we matched them and found one guy sleeping in some coral! He came up for air a few times and let us get a couple pix with him. More and more magical every time!
Thanks to the time difference it was really easy to get up and out super early and beat a lot of the crowds. We must have been there in a little bit of the off season, because there weren’t many people around anyway! Our first morning adventure was back to Maluaka Beach to search for turtles. We snorkeled around for a little while when all of a sudden a giant turtle just swam up and started swimming beside us! So unreal.
For no reason – a collection of my cross-pose swim photos! I usually try to get a handstand photo whenever I travel, but if there is a pool I’ve added this cross-pose to my must-get shot list. You can stay up to date with my latest cross-pose photos in my Flickr set. Enjoy!
More swimming, cartwheels, pina coladas, sunsets. Great place!
One of the most exhilarating experiences I’ve had to date: shark diving!
I woke up in Hermanus before dawn and drove the long, dark stretch of road over to Kleinbaai to meet up with the White Shark Projects team for a morning dive. Even the drive there seemed a little eerie, with bicyclists and people on foot popping up out of the darkness on the side of the road, making the drive pretty harrowing. I was lost in thought imagining all sorts of scary shark scenarios and they were forcing me to pay attention to the road! Thanks for keeping me present, roadside people.
