Megalodon Shark Tooth Diving Trip

The Local Diving Conditions Web site for Topsail Beach, NC

Well…it appears that due to uncontrollable circumstances (a nice way of putting it) that I will not be able to make Don Becker’s tooth hunting trip after all. Other ‘family’ matters, of much greater importance have required me to travel to Mississippi earlier this month and there is still just too much on the plate.

I am truly happy that Don could find someone to fill my space with such short notice… I hope everyone has a great time and excellent weather! Thanks again for the invite and give my regards to the deep.

UPDATE: The ‘Megalodon Monitor’ was first created by Julie B. and then re-designed by myself before posting it on this Web site. Please feel free to bookmark the link and refer back to it as often as you like… and thanks again for all the support from our friends!!

A Long Beach Weekend – Rehoboth, DE

I have known Julie now for just over a year and there is one thing that I can say for sure…she is a beach person! Every summer Julie and several of her girlfriends get together and rent out a Bed & Breakfast in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for a couple of long weekends to escape the busy city life of Washington DC.

This use to be a ‘girls only’ weekend event, but I guess I have become enough of a permanent fixture in Julies life that I am now welcomed on these excursions… or maybe her girlfriends have finally decided that I am worthy of Julie and have come to approve of me! :-)

What ever the case it is a nice break from our other wise hectic and busy life style. Thanks for a nice weekend get away Sweetie!!

PS… I forgot to pack my camera this year (a short notice thing) so I don’t have any pictures to share with you from this trip, but I will make sure I take it next year when Julie and I go again!!

The Bermuda Dive Trip 2006

The Royal Navy Dockyard & Maritime Museum – Bermuda

Julie and I have been looking forward to this trip for months and during the planning phase we decided to knock off a day or two of diving so that we might get to do some sight seeing on the island. Bermuda is very well known for it’s wreck diving, after all the movie “The Deep” was filmed here back in the late seventies, but it also has a host of land attractions including military forts dating back to the early 1600’s.

I’ve posted a collection of our trip photos along with a nice travel journal write up in the ‘Dive Trip’ section of my Web site. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Julie and I will be making another trip to Bermuda some time in 2007, so stay tuned for more pictures…!!

UPDATE: I’ve just added a new image gallery feathering some of my nicest photographs from Bermuda… enjoy!!

New York City 5 Boro Bike Tour

The Bike New York / 5 Boro Bicycle Tour – 2006

My little brother is quite a bicycle racer and when he talked me and Julie into going to New York for a bicycle race I thought I was going to be in for a wild ride. It is designed to be a fun family type of event…not a race but a tour. It is a 43 mile event that starts in lower Manhattan and ends on Staten Island. The route takes you through Central Park, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and then finally across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the finish at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. The event is put on by Bike New York and sponsored by Commerce Bank.

I am happy to report that everyone in our group had a great time and no one got hurt! As a matter of fact, we finished in a very respectable time for beginners at 4:36:00 (that’s with four mandatory event rest stops).

I think we are going to try and set it up again for next year, but we would really like to try and get more people to sign up with us. It is a really nice way to see New York and the city can be very photogenic if you let it!!

Check out the Bicycle Tour Photos here»

Easter Weekend w/ Julie’s Family – West Palm, FL

Doug & Julie at the Country Club’s Easter Childrens Fair

Julie’s parents have invited us to come visit them in Florida for the Easter Holiday weekend. From what Julie has told me, they live on the back nine of a country club golf coarse and have a pool in the back yard. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?… yea, one minute your taking a dip in the pool and the next your getting shelled by bad golfers!! ;-) Well it wasn’t quite like that… the pool was screened in to keep the bugs and the balls away!

Although I had met Julie’s parents several times before, this would be my first chance to meet her sister Susan who I had heard so much about from Julie. It’s funny, I always though that Julie talked more about her sisters two children than she did about Susan… I was right! Susan and her husband Jason were very nice and I enjoyed spending time with the whole family, but Julie was right… her niece and nephew were simply adorable!!!

And yes, once again I left my good camera rig at home so the pictures are few and far between. Maybe next trip I’ll have more of a chance to take some better photos… until then, stay tuned!!

Thanks again for having the two of us down to Florida for the weekend…we had a fantastic time!