If you happen to get the Register-Guard newspaper (Eugene, OR), go dig out your May 15th edition, locate the special Discovery magazine insert, and turn to page 6. (If you don’t have a copy, read on for instructions on how to access it online.)
It turns out that an underwater photo I took while diving in [...]

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During our trip to the Oregon Coast last month, we made a couple visits to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. (In fact, we actually became aquarium members for the first time.) During our first visit, which happened to be on Easter morning, we got a rare treat:

That’s the Giant Pacific Octopus (whose name might actually be [...]

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Last Sunday, in the midst of the rain storms currently besieging the Pacific Northwest, Jason and I decided to go diving on the Oregon Coast. The tide seemed perfect for an early morning drift followed by a dive at slack tide later on. Neither of us have been diving as often as we used to [...]

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For Father’s Day this year, Jen and Evan gave me a day of diving! They conspired with our friend and dive buddy Jason, who agreed to accompany me beneath the crystal clear, ice cold waters of Clear Lake, OR — one of my favorite freshwater dive sites. The date was to be June 24th. And [...]

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You know that when Jen has two posts in a row on the blog, something must be up with Steve! (Just kidding, honey! Hahaha.) Anyway, it would seem that my blogging and photo gallery activities have fallen victim to other endeavours as of late. What have I been up to, you ask?

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As most of you know, I have not been diving since last September. Now that Evan has been born, I’m ready to get back into the water and decided to start with a refresher dive in the pool.
Last night, Steve and Evan went with me to the local pool where a Eugene Skin Diver’s [...]

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I got to go diving yesterday for the first time since mid-April when I participated in the Disney Dive Quest program at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center. My last cold water dive was way back at the end of February!
Anyway, yesterday my dive buddy Jason and I headed over to Florence and dove at the [...]

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While at Walt Disney World, I participated in a behind-the-scenes experience called Disney Dive Quest where certified scuba divers are given an opporunity to dive in Epcot’s 6 million gallon Living Seas Aquarium. The aquarium and the species in it are interesting, but for me the real treat was interacting with the people on [...]

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This is graffiti — not just any graffiti, though. This is graffiti from Nanaimo, British Columbia, which is one of our favorite scuba diving destinations. I snapped this image with my camera phone while we were up there at the end of February. Frankly, I am unsure how to interpret it, but I think [...]

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Wow! Time is going by so quickly right now. Before Jen and I were pregnant, I can remember thinking, “9 months is a long time. We’ll have lots of time to get things done while Jen is pregnant.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. Of course, it probably hasn’t helped that we’ve maintained some of [...]

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