Norfolk Island Dreezer Family holiday

Dreezer Family Diving on Norfolk Island

with Bounty Divers of course

As a tourism destination, Norfolk Island is not unaccustomed to having people come to the island and fall in love with the place, hence returning many times in a row.

Steve and Jenny Dreezer and there young son Joel have indeed fallen in love with Norfolk Island. Steve and Jenny in particular have fallen for the magnificent diving that we offer here on Norfolk Island. Not only is the diving to there liking, but the entire feel, pace and experience that is Norfolk Island.

Norfolk Island has long been recognised as a favourite for the older visitors. There are reasons for this, Norfolk Island is clean, no rubbish spread all over the roadsides. It's safe, walk where you like when you like for whatever reason you like, just remember to wave to the locals when they wave as they pass. etc

These are all great reasons for the younger visitor or young family to visit Norfolk.

You can do very little -

who can resist reading a book and dozing in the shade of a 300 year old giant of a norfolk pine? Or taking a relaxing dip in any of Norfolk Islands pristine swimming beaches.

Or you can do alot -

trek the National park of Phillip Island, do some fishing on the way back, snorkel in Emily Bay next to the jetty, join the tag along tour through the convict ruins, ride your mountain bike up to the winery for a exquisite late lunch and some of the islands local wine, make it back to your room just in time to be picked up for your evening show, dine on local produce at award winning restaurants, then maybe finish the night off with a taste of the local ale at the Brewery Bar. Just to give you an idea...

Getting back on track now, these are some of the reasons that the Dreezer family have just visited us for the second time, with a promise that it wont be long before they are back.

Young Joel hasnt learned to dive yet, nothing that a couple more years under his belt will not remedy. However Steve and Jenny are well and truely addicted to diving. And as you will see from the pics above have also become very accomplishhed underwater photographers also.

Now not to brag too much, BUT...

Bounty Divers was able to show Jenny her very first Turtle on the water initially (not bad) but then in the water (multiple times). A feat that the guys at UEPI were not able to accomplish. We were diving on a relatively new dive site for us called Liar Straight, that without a doubt rivals any dive site in the world, including the likes of the Red Sea, Sipidan and the Great Barrier. And through out the dive we were able to see at least 7 different Green turtles. Of course my video camera was sitting in the Bounty Divers shop on the charger...

Anyway, the final word is that it has beeh great having the Dreezer family here on Norfolk Island and diving with us again at Bounty Divers and we look forward to seeing them again soon. Other younger travellers and young families that visit Norfolk will also be overwhelmed by the amazing holiday that they will have and we look forward to meeting you all soon, diving or not.

If you would like to see more of Steve and Jenny's wonderful photos, please check out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/waterdragon62

Dolphins Again on Norfolk Island with Bounty Divers

Dolphins Again

How lucky are we???

Some places around the world are lucky enough that divers can see Dolphins on a reasonably regular basis. Some locations are even lucky enough to see some of the other amazing creatures from the ocean like whales and mantas. And Norfolk Island is one of those places. Every dive here on Norfolk has the potential to see something amazing. Some even more special than others.

For the second time this year we saw a dolphin in the water while we were diving.

We were diving on the North side of the island at a spot called Liar Straight. 20 minutes into the dive we were turned to see an 10ft Dolphin swimming with in 10 meters from us. Luckily Jenny was lucky enough to snap a great shot of it. A huge thanks to Steve and Jenny Dreezer for letting us use this and many other fantastic images that they got while they were here.

The two docs on Norfolk Island with Bounty Divers

Trainee doctors on Norfolk Island

Diving with BOUNTY DIVERS

Clare and Jess were on Norfolk to complete the final part of there medical training with a few weeks hands on practical at the Norfolk Island Hospital.

On Norfolk, in comparison to some other South Pacific Island nations that I have been fortunate enough to visit, we have a very well equiped and modern hospital, with arguably some of the best, highly trained and experienced medical staff in the world. The actual building is getting pretty old, again, compared to some that I have seen in the South Pacific, it is luxury. No matter, it is whats inside that counts.

Getting back to the docs.

Clare and Jess came over to Norfolk as the hospital is a great place to learn in terms of a broad spectrum of experience and unlike many larger hospitals, the girls would get thrown in the deep end and are allowed to be a bit more hands on here. They too had a lot of respect for the staff here on Norfolk.

Even though the dics were here to work and learn, they managed to find time to CHILL out and also to learn to dive right here with Bounty Divers. The docs were both super competative and continually trying to out do each other at every turn. This made my job easy easy easy. Two good looking bikini clad young women on the boat did not hurt my business for the week either. Localk guys were clambering over each other to come dive or boat sit all week. Nice.

Anyway the docs are both qualified PADI Open Water Divers now. I dont think that we have seen the end of Clare and Jess. And I will look forward to taking them diving again in the future. Hope fully it will be here on Norfolk.

Just like Clare and Jess, Bounty Divers can take anyone from non-diver to diver in as little as 4 days. So if you would like to start diving on your next holiday, just drop us a line.

Norfolk Island Kayaking

Kayaking on Norfolk Island

When the weather is good on Norfolk everyone wants to be on the water and if you cant be diving with Bounty Divers then you might as well do something else that is almost as fun as diving, like kayaking.

Norfolk Island has some of the most scenic coastlines in the world with towering cliff faces, crystal clear water, amazing marine life, stunning rockformations and crystal clear air. Where else would you want to be?

The range of soft adventure activities on Norfolk Island is growing steadily, and many adventure options are available. Or alternatively you can do absolutely NOTHING... sit on the beach andrelax the day away, have a leasurely game of golf on one of the most scenic golf courses in the world, or sit under a Norfolk Island pine that is hundreds of years old and read a book

BUT for those who are keen for something with a little more throttle, come see Bounty Divers, we have everything for divers and non-divers alike.

Hope to see you soon

Norfolk Island Paintball

Its all about the Scuba Diving on Norfolk Island

As far as we are concerned anyway!

But every now and then the prevailing winds take their toll and diving just is not possible; one of the not too many down sides of living in an island paradise I guess. Luckily 'paradise' has a ton of other activities we can do when we aren't in the beautiful waters that surround Norfolk Island.

Not diving on Norfolk with Bounty Divers, then Paintball. A young guy named Mark has taken over the Norfolk Paintball and has breathed new life into it. Complete with a set schedule and a new location it makes for a fantastic Norfolk adventure! Located in the post card perfection of Bumboras on the south side of Norfolk Island, paintball takes on a whole new edge.

It's easy for Mark to find a few people on Norfolk to join you for a fight, but with the amount of fun had at each hard hitting adventure run, you won't have any trouble rounding up a few people for the Bounty Divers team.

Book this and many other Norfolk adventure activities at the Bounty Divers store for convenience and freindly service with a cup of coffee/tea.

Norfolk Island, Bounty Divers and Outer Edge Magazine

Outer Edge Magazine

The Ultimate Adventure Magazine

Bounty Divers where lucky enough to host Mr Chris Ord recently from Outer Edge Magazine. Chris was here to seek all the out there activities that Norfolk had to offer and he was not dissappointed. The main focus for his trip to Norfolk was the Scuba Diving with Bounty Divers and the kayaking with Tropical Adventures which can also be organised at the Bounty Divers office.

The kayaking was extrordinary, with a circum navigation of the island over three days. The next issue will have the article featuring the kayaking and I am sure it will be awesome

However the article covering the diving was insanely good, even though the weather was not kind to us and we were not able to get into the fully hard core dive sites that we had provisionally planned. We did manage to introduce Chris to one of our smaller sharks, not the first time that Chris has dived with a shark, but the first time that he has seen one that was not enticed in by burly, just there of its own accord. It was only a small Gallapogas shark, which are quite common here on norfolk Island and the smaller islands that surround Norfolk.

Sharks on Norfolk are usually very well fed as we have no commercial fishing industry here allowing fish stocks to remain very high. Another reason why the diving around Norfolk Island is first rate.

Anyway, getting back to the article in Outer Edge Magazine. Chris has done an amazing job of combining all the usual information that people like to write about Norfolk Island, history, Bounty etc but he has managed to do it in an interesting way that does not get boring. I am a little concerned about the image that he has created for me as beast of a diver and my passion for Norfolk Islands marine environment including sharks. It will be a bit of a let down for people travelling to Norfolk Island to dive with Bounty Divers when they arrive and see what I am really like.

Anyway the article is awesome. The magazine is awesome. And you should really buy a copy and have a look.

We hope that we can get Chris or any one of the other guys out here again at some stage, maybe next time we will catch a break with the weather and really get into some awesome diving. Then I would bet these guys would write an article that would completely blow us away.

http://www.outer-edge.com.au/

Norfolk Island Coral Watch Bounty Divers

Coral Watch Program

Bounty Divers Norfolk Island

For the last three years with the assistance of the Ivens Buffett (toon) trust fund, Bounty Divers has been operating a Coral Monitoring program. The program is the Coral Monitoring program from the University Of Queensland. This program is also supported worldwide by the PADI organisation through there Project Aware foundation.

The project is a low tech high coverage attack at global Coral conditions.

The project on Norfolk Island has been very very succesful in regards to awareness and training by local school students. Bounty Divers is very proud that the funding we recieved from the Toon trust, that we thought would fund one year, has been stretched over the last two and a half year. The data that has been collected has been forwarded to the UoQ for analysis and comparison to global coral reef trends.

The coral on Norfolk Island is very healthy and this has been reflected in the data that has been collected.