Island Card (visiting Island R-117) ~ On board the ssc Island Dancer your mooring off Saba near the Marine Park lets you and your diving buddies dive Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, discovering steep walls and towering sea-mounts with purple pipe organ and barrel sponges, black coral and an abundance of large fish – grouper, … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Islands V-134 & V-136) ~ While on board sv Tradewinds make sure when you visit Roatan that you go on to Barbareta Island, a Marine National Park with hiking trails, a Parrot Preserve, coconut palm gardens, the Morat Wall scuba dive and a Payan (the first inhabitants here) archaeological site where you … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island U-131) ~ While ss Caribbean Star sails over the reefs to the eastern side of Isla del Maiz, you dive close to the Drop-Off and find a lobster hole ~ a small cave full of lobsters. You catch a dozen of these delicacies and give them to the Executive Chef on … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Islands A-1, A-2 & F-47) ~ After you arrive in Miami to begin your cruise on board ss Magellan to the island of Hispaniola and the Western Caribbean, you rent a dive boat at Miami Beach Marina and snorkel the schooner wreck near Bear Cut in Biscayne National Park. ~ Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Island Y-150) ~ The ss Neptune anchors off Georgetown, Grand Cayman, and even if you don’t scuba dive check out the underwater photography gallery where you are sure to find a fabulous multi-colored photo showing the inhabitants of the local reefs in all their … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island V-137) ~ mv Riviera arrives at Guanaja, one of the Bay Islands of Honduras, and you dive the North Reef System at Black Rock with its series of walled canyons that lace together forming a maze of swim-throughs. In the afternoon visit the South Coast and the wreck of the Jado … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Island V-135) ~ After a morning dive of the Black Hills off Utila, one of the Bay Islands of Honduras, you do some archaeological exploration on dry land, then return to ssc Island Dancer and indulge in an aromatherapy massage with therapeutic essential oils including lavender, marjoram and ylang ylang. ~ Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting island U-131) ~ The waters around Corn Island (off the coast of Nicaragua) are crystal clear on one side and green on the other. When visiting the island you sunbathe on the three-mile-long white sand beach then dive the wreck of a Spanish galleon just offshore in about 70 feet of water. … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Island Parish G-51) ~ When ss Colombia docks in Hamilton, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, your shore excursion is a visit to the Underwater Exploration Institute with its simulated capsule dive from this volcanic island to the ocean floor 12,000 feet below; also there are scale model wrecks, huge murals and an aural introduction … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island C-21) ~ If you really wish to get away from it all, try Walker’s Cay ~ the furthermost island in the northern Bahamas, and an unspoiled haven for divers who will find all the fish they need at White … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Islands E-32, E-34 & E-35) ~ You arrive on Providenciales through the Leeward Cut on board ssc Island Dancer. The ship’s Captain anchors in the crystal-clear turquoise waters of Grace Bay from where you take the dive boat and visit Little Water Cay with its Nature Reserve protecting the rock iguanas. In … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island T-127) ~ When visiting Isla Bastimentos off the Panamanian coast on board mv Riviera, you take the dive boat miles out to sea and try to find one of the many Spanish galleons that were wrecked hundreds of years ago, along with their treasure of bullion and jewels. ~ Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Island B-11) ~ If you want to be scared while on Grand Bahama, dive with a steel-mesh clad master diver, watch him feed a variety of free-roaming sharks and maybe reach out and touch the sandpaper roughness of a shark’s skin as your dive master brings a shark over for you to … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island H-55) ~ Hope that the Captain of ss Colombia does not add his (and your) ship to the reef off the island of Anegada, BVI. There are already over 300 wrecks in these waters, many easily seen whilst diving. While visiting this … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting island Y-153) ~ When mv Riviera anchors off Cayman Brac your morning dive is the Hobbit Drop-Off with its other-worldly inhabitants. For the rest of the day, relax among some of the friendliest islanders in the Caribbean and relish the peacefulness and serenity that is Brac living. ~ Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island V-134) ~ During your cruise to the Bay Islands of Honduras on board ss Magellan you dive the reefs off the island of Roatan (part of one of the largest Barrier Reefs in the world) and begin to understand why these reefs have such a well deserved, world-class reputation. Organizations such … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Island E-33) ~ Your visit to Salt Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands is highlighted by seeing migrating humpback whales from your dive boat. Your dive site is the H.M.S. Endymion, an 18th. century wooden British warship in 30 feet of water. All that remains of her are cannons, ballast, anchors … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Islands H-58 & H-59) ~ Tortola in the British Virgin Isles is the start of your sailing vacation on board Indigo Sails ~ your 55 foot ketch. The dive conditions are excellent, with visibility up to 100 … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Islands E-32 & E-36) ~ After diving the Shark Hotel off West Caicos steer Indigo Sails towards one of the most popular anchorages on … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island W-139) ~ When sv Tradewinds anchors to the south of Ambergris Caye off the Belize mainland, some of the best dives are the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Shark-Ray Alley and … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Islands M-88 & M-89) ~ If your wish is to get away from it all, but still have a yacht at your disposal; if … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Island Z-157) ~ After leaving Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, Indigo Sails hoves to above the Sherwood Forest, a deep scuba dive … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Islands B-7 & B-8) ~ After the ss Caribbean Star docks in Nassau, New Providence, choose either the … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Island D-31) ~ When ss Mayan Sun drops anchor off the island of Andros, you spend the morning around … Continue reading »
Island Card (visiting Island E-37) ~ mv Riviera anchors off Pillory Beach on Grand Turk, so a day of sun, sea, sand and scuba diving is called for. You meet up with a dive boat going to the Tunnels, with its coral arches leading divers … Continue reading »
Ship Card (visiting Islands C-17, C-19 & C-21) ~ Before you sail on down to Shell Island and Man-O-War Cay in the Abacos on board your crewed sailboat Indigo Sails, you stop at Walker’s Cay where you dive Shark Rodeo, (afterwards finding out that far too many of … Continue reading »
