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We had an excellent day of diving with our favorite Saba dive operation, Sea Saba. A little background, I am a newbie diver with just shy of 30 dives. Nevertheless, I do have my Advanced Open Water & Nitrox certifications, being a typical over-enthusiastic learner. Joel has over 100 dives and is a certified Dive Master. Tucked in the back of his mind is the option of becoming a scuba instructor.

What got us hooked on diving? I’ll be sharing our first dive experience with you as part of our “Why Do You Dive?” campaign & contest. In the meantime, I wanted to mention a few things that attracted us to diving in Saba.
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I guess we should never be surprised at what we see as we hike along the trails in Saba! Joel and I were hiking the Crispeen track, which is a trail that goes to The Bottom (capital of Saba, where Saba University Medical School is). The trail has a combination of flat track and low stone steps, with houses just above it. As we walked along, we heard an extraordinary amount of peep-peep-peeping and figured there was a tree full of birds coming up. What a surprise we had when we came around the bend!
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Hailing from Southwest Ontario and the south tip of Lake Huron, Popeye and his wife Grace came down from Canada to visit Saba for a second time after ten years away. We heard he was diving with SeaSaba so we tracked him down on Friday as hugs were taking place and he said his farewells to the crew. First of all I have to tell everyone, Popeye has more dives under his belt than 99% of the divers in the world which gives you “like celebrity” status down here – 12,538 dives to be exact!

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Yesterday was my birthday and Joel & I had a great celebration! But I’ll talk about that in a moment — first, I want to introduce Manny, one of the interesting people in Saba. Manny is one of the friendliest people on the island — I call him “The Mayor of Saba.” He always has a smile, wave and greeting for you whenever he drives by. Manny has a taxi, which is a blue van that says “You’re behind Manny…cool out!” on the back. It is in this van that he drives all of the Sea Saba customers to and from Fort Bay, where we meet the diving boats. On a trip with Manny, he will tell you all about the history of Saba and point out the interesting sights. After 2 years in Saba, he still tells me something new on each trip. Guess what else Manny does?
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We have exciting news — Joel & I are going on a dive extravaganza with Sea Saba over the next couple of weeks! You’ll get to see underwater pictures, meet the crew, some locals & visitors to Saba! We are also having a contest & giveaways for you – our online viewing audience! Read on for the details.
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Well, Joel and I just received our second package of mail from the U.S. Guess what? It was all of our mail from November, December & January! We got many Christmas cards, a wedding invitation for this past January — and late bills! Yikes — we spent some of the day today calling all of the companies who sent us bills to let them know what our situation is.
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In July of last year, before Joel and I moved to Saba, there was a little “incident” with the beautiful palm trees lining the stonewall surrounding our yard. We got a call from our caretaker, David Johnson, telling us that the electric company had cut them down because they were brushing some electrical wires outside the house during hurricane season.

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At first, I was shocked – we have an amazing 20 foot traveler’s palm and 4 beautiful small palms that bloom with red berries right in the middle of the trunk. These are the trees that I dreamed of every time I sat in my New Hampshire home, dreaming of being in Saba. We actually have a rare, flat yard with grass – and surrounded by flowers planted by the previous owner, Phillip Rowland. Many times, Joel and I have found ourselves appreciating the ability to sit on our lounge chairs in the yard, with privacy & shade from the palms, while gazing out at the ocean. Or being able to do yoga outside in the yard without attracting a crowd of tourists wondering at my desire to fold up pretzle style. I am grateful to Phillip and our caretaker, David, for having the vision and commitment to keeping the yard the flower-filled hummingbird sanctuary that it is.
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Today the breadfruit tree in our back yard came down. Our cottage caretaker, David Johnson, along with Ronnie Johnson, came here to take it down. Joel and I lamented losing this tree at first because we liked having this interesting fruit. It is about 6 inches in diameter and when ripe, the green skin is rippled like a brain. Breadfruit is actually not sweet, but savory and is cooked like a potato. The reason for taking this tree down is that it was growing on the second level of our stone wall, which meant it’s roots were eventually going to break the wall. Taking it down without destroying the wall or having an accident was going to be a problem — here’s why.
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