May 12th, 2011 Dear Friends and Family, When leaving New Zealand which I have chosen to do as soon as practical for emotional reasons; the weather is EVERYTHING. Yesterday was perhaps the worst weather I\’ve seen in my life! Not kidding. It was blowing 40 knots, 50 in the gusts. It was raining as hard […]
When to \”Jump\”?…. Read More »
May 11th 2011 Dear Friends and Family, We\’ll the journey continues and begins anew. The weather has been horrid. The wind blows like hell in furry, the rain falls like a broken damn. What am I doing here? Mike Lonnes, great guy and genuinely best marine installation man on the planet earth, came to New
The God\’s must be crazy….. Read More »
May 2nd, 2011 Dear Friends and Family, I don\’t have any idea where to begin. I write you from still gray, rainy, windy Auckland, New Zealand. The weather has been truly awful since my return to \”Beach House\” a week ago. It suits my emotional state as I\’m sure you can imagine. I am still
The Long and Winding Road….. Read More »
May 1st, 2011 Dear Friends & Family, As you can see from the new homepage of svbeachhouse.com, I have archived our original website to the memory of our voyages. We truly had some of the greatest times of our lives in places like San Benedicto Island riding giant manta rays, swimming with a whale shark
With sadness, a new beginning…… Read More »
On March 13, 2011, we lost our dearest, sweetest Cindy. Many of you may not know that she was suffering from a very deep depression; most severe since this past November. Despite all help, she decided in her pain she could no longer endure and chose to take her life. Cindy fought as hard as
The Passing of My Beloved Cindy….. Read More »
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Stolnitz, what a suprise you made for us. I really would have loved being with you when going down to the wreck of the legendary Seeadler. Perhaps I will have the chance one time. Thank you very much for sending us this information and the link to the wonderful pictures. Indeed
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Dear F&F, 29 July 2010 The island of Niue is in free association with New Zealand, one of the many islands of the South Pacific that without outside aid would economically collapse. Most native Niueans have emigrated to New Zealand in search of higher paying better jobs. More Niueans live in New Zealand than Niue
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Dear F&F, 27-28 July 2010 After moving to the South East side of the reef for comfort and protection from the \”twitchy\” entrance pass, we deployed the dinghy and started to explore the INSIDE of the west lagoon. First and most notably was the wreck of a small Niuean \”long liner\” (fishing boat), M/V \”Liberty\”.
Beveridge Reef Exploration…..Disappointment Disolved! Read More »
Dear F&F, 23 – 26 July 2010 We left for Beveridge Reef from Palmerston Atoll with a very favorable weather report. As Beveridge Reef is literally a circle of rocks 1500 miles from anywhere (anywhere truly being a relative term!), approaching it in fair weather would be essential. This tiny coral reef, 2 miles long
Beveridge Reef…..Arrival and Initial Disappointment….. Read More »
Dear F&F, We\’d heard that when you were at Palmerston the locals did everything they could to \”get some work out of you\”. We were no exception! As soon as they found out we were SCUBA divers, we were put to work. First, we checked our own mooring to make sure it was in good
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