Croatia, Poreč

Hrvatska (Croatia), Poreč.

I guess Croatia could be a nice place, but I didn't like it at all. Major road construction, with is good, but it was a bit confusing, especially for the locals, because they didn't know how to drive.

 

I thought that Croatia would be a cheap holiday resort, but it was as expensive as Finland, or even more expensive.

 

Diving center Porec, I recommend them. Very nice, friendly and helpful people. Maria had some problem with her BCD and the help/service was instant. We were happy with them, though we weren’t that happy with the locations. They were nice but not that exciting

 

This is a map of what we saw of Croatia

 

 

 

Maria found a nice hotel-apartment just out of the city center.

If you are going diving with the Dive center Poreč, and arrive with a car, you can leave it at the hotel parking a just walk down the path, it's the easiest way to get there 

 

 

The position of the two dive locations aren't exact, but for Lim Fjord is almost exact.



 

The visibility is OK!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just sitting here and waiting for you guys...

 

 

Just played with the macro settings and this guy was very eager to assist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austria, Attersee

Austria, Attersee.

Huh, what a week or so. Haven't had anytime for ourselves, we still haven't unpacked everything.
But any way, now I got a seconds to post pics and some text.

The first dive stop was in the beautiful country of Austria. I love Austria, would say that Austria is one of the most beautiful countries I ever visited.

We stayed at neat the town of Unterach am Attersse. It was a family hotel called Pension Sonnhof, I was very impressed with it.

 

Usually the first is the best, at least for me, and this time it was. Under Pressure was by far the best center this trip.

 

 

At UP we were treated like royalty. A BIG THANKS to You all!

 

 

Along the "cost" of Attersee you can find signs like this. It's like a mini map of the dive location that tells difficulty, depth, is there any fish and so on.

 

Entry point

 

Maria

 

One of the better pics of me ever, according to me.

 

This is a Austrian Dive Bell :)

 

The water was quite nice and clear ...

 

... thou the weather wasn't.

 

We found a small wreck, it wasn't that hard to find.

 

The difference between a divecomputer at altitude 0 (sea level) and a computer at altitude 1 (700 m-)

 

I had my Suunto D9 at altitude 1 and it had a minor variation to the other computers.

 

The Twin towers

 

Maria took this picture. All credit to her!

 

Our trip through Europe

Uhh, to be back at work, not funny at all.
We have been 3 weeks traveling around Europe, 11 countries and about 7 000 km.


This is how we drove;
Finland (ferry to) - Sweden (ferry to) - Germany - The Netherlands - Belgium - Germany - Austria (dive location) - Slovenia - Croatia (dive location) - Slovenia - Italy - Switzerland - Liechtenstein - Switzerland - France - Belgium (dive location) - The Netherlands - Germany (ferry to) - Finland.

The dive sites we visited where;
Austria, Attersee, Under Pressure. We did two dives and also did completed the Padi Altitude dive course.

Croatia, Poreč, Poreč Diving center. We made two dives the firsth day and one on our last, we visited Labyrint, Pal and Lim Fjord.

Belgium, Brussles, Nemo 33. What a place! I was a rebel, I when to 32 m with is my new SB and PB :) I know that I´m only allowed to go to 30 m but nobody asked or was looking...

I will return to and write about these dive sites and center's when I have some pictures and more time.

I got mail...

Yesterday when I got home, I had an envelope waiting.

This was waiting inside...

Upcomming

The end of August and the first two weeks of September will be interesting; we are going for our summer holiday. We have planned a euro trip with maximum amount of diving. We are trying to go to a dive park in Germany, trying to do the PADI Altitude diver course in Austria, the main goal for our trip will be Poreč, Croatia, and on our way back home hopefully we’ll have the chance to visit my friend Tim in Belgium and go to Nemo 33.

It'll be interesting to se how much and how many planed sites we manage to visit. :)

I'll update as we drive south from Finland and have access to the internet...

I GOT THE VIDEO UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE!!!

I know that this isn't that much to party on, but it's big for me because I never done anything like this + I had sooooo much problems with my home/work computer.

ANYWAY, the video from Wessö is on youtube also found here.

Please give some feedback. Either as a comment here or on youtube.

The video...

I tried to post the video here, but it was a failure.

It didn't show the video like a video, more like still captures from the video. I guess I have to post it on like youtube and link it here... Well You will know if I succeed or not... :)

My first video

 "I can't belive it. For normal internet users it may not be that a big of a deal, but for me this is...

My first edited video that I'm posting online...
This video is taken by Maria @ Wessö,Borgå last weekend."


That's what I was gonna write.
Due to the firewalls and filter and what ever, apparently I can't post film from my work computer. Well I guess it'll have to wait until I get home...

Wessö 28.7.2013

I have to start by saying that I was wrong, in my earlier post I said we where going to Pulkkilanharju today. I was wrong. We went to Wessö, Porvoo.

Tero had a OWD student with him so we when as moral support to him. :) But instead of being his support we took his scooter and started to "drive around" with it. 

It's a older model Scubapro not the fastest but a lot of FUN! 

After a while I had to let Maria have another go with it, she also enjoyed it...

No matter what she is given, she turns into a rally driver... 

I promise, she was doing like 80km/h... :) 

The propulsion system... :)

Actually I felt like a rally driver too... I came in first position... 

woooooom....

I found two small perch...

... but Maria drove them away... :)

Last time we where to Kaatiala Maria snapped a nice picture of Tero and his dog/our mascot Kamu. Tero gave Maria some pointers on how to take these kind of pictures. I think these are pretty good, specially this one because you can se the bottom and the sky... :)

I think this is probably the best pic of the day.

Or is this the best pic...??? Don´t know, but I do know that Disco is still alive... :)

A new OWD has seen the light, and now free descending...

Tero with his little baby...

Shhh... Don't tell Tero that I'm piggy backing... :)

The new OWD-diver Kari, yes I know that now it two times diver, but I don't care... :)

Congrats Kari!

We took some videos but before I'm putting them here, I have to try to edit them.