SoCal, SoCool: California with Avra
Traveling and scuba diving are two of my favorite activities, and there could possibly be no hobbies more compatible with each other. It occurred to me to write a blog posting on this subject, but when casting about the web for inspiration, I came across a trip report written by fellow Oceanblue Divers member Avra Cohen about his recent trip to southern California.
The beautiful descriptions of his experiences exploring SoCal's kelp forests, deserts and beaches made me more homesick than just about anything else I've read or seen since moving to the East Coast in 2005. His accounts brought back vivid memories of my own times exploring the very same places. He "meticulously planned, for ten days, to go whichever way the wind blew," and the result is testament to the value of spontaneity in travel.
Avra's report is far better than anything I'm going to write today, so travel vicariously to California with him through this link.
The beautiful descriptions of his experiences exploring SoCal's kelp forests, deserts and beaches made me more homesick than just about anything else I've read or seen since moving to the East Coast in 2005. His accounts brought back vivid memories of my own times exploring the very same places. He "meticulously planned, for ten days, to go whichever way the wind blew," and the result is testament to the value of spontaneity in travel.
Avra's report is far better than anything I'm going to write today, so travel vicariously to California with him through this link.
Labels: my travels, scuba diving, whimsy
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2 Comments:
Nice blog from Avra - have travelled the same circuit many times with the exception of the Salton Sea. Makes me miss So Cal and we live just 350 miles north.
Chuck Strickland
Thanks, that was a really cool read! chemical wash
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