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• Is Felix a photographer or does he take pictures?

  Critical as I tend to be, I'd say he takes pix as almost everybody else does these days: Mediocre stuff, nothing special. Fair enough - Felix has other interests, and photography has never really gotten into his system.
  Once in a while, however, Felix leaves me absolutely flabbergasted when I' [...]
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• Chilean seafood - it could be the best, by far, if......

  ...... Chileans knew how to cook.
  
  Unfortunately, average Chileans don't know how to cook well, not seafood, not meat, not vegetables. Very strange when you consider that in one of the neighboring countries, Peru, you find the most exquisite and diverse Latin American cuisine.
  
  Years ago I ordered' [...]
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• Caribbean reef sharks -

  - they used to be my favorite sharks before I met, and fell in love with, tiger sharks. Not difficult to understand: The tigers' distinctiveness, their size, their character, and, yes, their incredible gentleness being their hall mark, starkly contrasting with their bad "press" they still get, makes them probably' [...]
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• New Generation of Underwater Photographers.

  They have come a long way, and when one looks at their work, we "oldies", meaning those stubborn seniors who still cling to film and all the rest of it, are full of envy at the new photographers' seemingly unlimited possibilities of bringing home spectacular images.  
  Mind you, there' [...]
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• Shark Warrior Lesley Rochat was here!

  'Here' means Tiger Beach. Lesley Rochat was here for the second time, and she absolutely loved it! I wouldn't be surprised to meet her at the Beach again next year.
  Unfortunately, Lesley had a cold, so her diving was limited (as was mine due an ear infection coupled with' [...]
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• Total Diving Freedom.....

  ..... is what I always said was the salient feature of diving with Captain Scott W. Smith ("Scottie") aboard his Dolphin Dream (DD) . Now, being back from my last two one-week trips to the Tiger Beach area, I could add: On the DD, guests have also total cooking freedom. [...]
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• Since "Opa" is not allowed to post (and brag) about his gorgeous grand-son Wolfie.....

  .... here are just two recent photographs of him taken by his father:
  
  
  
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