Seventeen years ago Kelly and I stopped at a wonderful island in Fiji called Vatulele. During our stay in this tropical paradise we got married on the beach and learnt to scuba dive. Well we are still happily married but we have never had or taken the opportunity to dive again, until this week.

Hey look, a dive table for people like me who can't read the fine print. (Note size of standard chart in my left hand)

On the 2nd of April Kelly and I fly to Cairns to once again enjoy all that the adventure cruise ship the Orion has to offer. Our trip this time will take us from Cairns up through Milne Bay, along the north coast of Papua New Guinea to the Sepik River and then Rabaul. From there we head further up the north coast to Irian Jaya and places like Mapia Atoll and finish up in Darwin, but more on that later.

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