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Colorado: a long way from the ocean

Sunrise over Sprague Lake

As is probably evident by now, new content has been lacking from this site for a while. The excuse? We’ve been busy relocating from London to Colorado, where we expect to be for the next couple of years.

A glance at a map will show that Colorado is rather a long way from the sea: 950 miles to the Gulf of Mexico, 770 to the Sea of Cortez, 830 miles to the Pacific coast, and 1480 to the Atlantic. That’s about as far as I ever want to live from the ocean.

That said, Denver airport is well-connected and our new location makes some fantastic dive destinations more accessible than they were from the UK. My top five are:

  • Galapagos
  • Cocos
  • Baja California
  • Bay Islands, Honduras
  • and (if I can ever face any more temperate water diving) Vancouver Island

In the meantime, the US Rockies and Southwest offer some wonderful top-side locations to visit, such as the Rocky Mountain National Park (see photo above – dawn at Sprague Lake).

Settling in here has been easy to date: life takes a lot less planning than in London, where simply driving from home to a shop needs either careful timing or unbounded patience (due to traffic).

We’re hoping to fit a dive trip in around September. Not sure yet whether we’ll manage any of the destinations above – certainly, Galapagos and Cocos require more forward planning (not to mention cash) than we’ve allowed…

Stephen · Friday, April 20, 2007, 22:07 · Permalink

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