In January 2009 Leanne and I made our way to the South Pacific. Our first stop was just over a week in Chuuk where we were diving the wrecks of Truk Lagoon. This is where the Americans sank about 50 Japanese ships during World War II. Most of these ships are at safe sport diving depths, and now they have become a fascinating tourist attraction for divers from all over the world. The best feature of these wrecks is that somehow they still have most of the artifacts that sank with them. This includes tanks, tools, guns, ammunition, ceramics, bottles and just about anything else you could imagine people needing on a ship. Finding all of these items on the ships gives a real feel of what it might have been like to be on them, and sometimes the horror of the attack that caused them to sink.
In January 2009 Leanne and I headed to the South Pacific for a bit of a diving holiday. After just over a week diving the wrecks of Truk Lagoon we moved on to Palau, where we were able to see all sorts of big life: turtles, sharks, mantas and napoleon wrasse.
Photos from our holiday in Sharm El Sheikh, November 2007.
Below the jump park, there’s a fun green run down into the village. It’s a long off-road section through the woods followed by lots of hairpin bends on a stretch of road.
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To get to the jump park involves riding down from the top lift on a series of berms. It’s a fun little ride down, although Jon did manage to come a cropper on it. You may notice me pause on the track before dropping down into a berm. Apparently that’s where Jon got himself a concussion!
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The second of the helmet cam movies is mostly a view of my hands working the paddle as I try to follow the orders of our river guide Manu.
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The mtb-thrashers are now back from their trip to Les Gets, a village in the French Alps renowned for mountain biking. You can find all Jon’s quality photos at mtb-thrashers.com, but as well as that good stuff, I managed to get some helmet-cam footage. It’s hard work getting the camera pointing in the right direction, so to be honest there was a lot of wasted footage. However, I reckon I managed to pull together some almost watchable segments. But I’ll let you decide…
First of all, on a day of rafting we had to climb up a large rock and jump into the rapids. I did this wearing a helmet cam which hopefully captures a feel of the event.
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