When you think of diving destinations, Utah probably isn't the first place that comes to mind. After all it is land-locked, and more of a winter sports area. Just outside of Park City though, where the 2002 Winter Olympics were held, is a little town called Midway, which is home to Homestead Crater, an awesome 65 foot deep hot spring inside a hollowed out, beehive-shaped mountain. This is the closest place we can take students to do their open water dives during the winter when it would be death by hypothermia to go to the reservoir. Five years ago I was
Fun fact: you can go scuba diving in two of the tanks at the Downtown Aquarium in Denver! Best Valentine's Day present ever: diving at the aquarium! I'm an extraordinarily lucky girl to have found a guy who's not just an awesome travel buddy, but shares all my same passions of diving and adventuring and enjoying life. He flew out to visit me for Valentines day, and told me the night before that my present was a trip to the aquarium to go diving in the reef exhibit AND the shark exhibit. I pretty much died of happy. We were driving in
The time we weren't sailing around to different islands, we spent on St. John, as that is where Summer worked as a dive instructor, and Mikey as a park ranger. I lost track of how many days we went diving, but sometimes we tagged along with Summer's DSD classes and helped out with the students. and other times we just went on fun dives. The first day we got in the water we saw two different sea turtles, and if you know me, you know that I absolutely, positively adore sea turtles. I even have one tattooed on my foot