I think taking a year to start this blog makes me a qualified procrastinator, don’t you?
I originally set this site up to record my thoughts and experience of all the fabulous trips I had planned last year. I was going to stun the world with my photographic images of all the amazing creatures I would see, and places I would visit, where I stayed, who I met….
Well I went on those trips, no procrastination there! I had some amazing experiences – diving with 20 or more bull sharks, a few tiger sharks and lemon sharks everyday for 5 days straight while attending ‘Shark School’ being a highlight – so much so I did it again 2 months later! Later in the year I did a fabulous 7 night liveaboard in the Komodo National Park as part of a three-week Indonesian dive holiday.
I also fitted in two trips back home to New Zealand for work stuff and see family, and made a blazing trail dashing up the beautiful country moving my car from Queenstown to Whangamata in less than a week on one of those visits, and drove to the very top of the North Island to arrive at 5am and see the sunrise at Cape Reinga on another. What a year.
And, oh, what a hell load of photographs and memories that went unrecorded (I did at least get some on them on my Facebook and instagram feeds).
My intention was to document my travels, and my journey learning photography, so I had something to look back on of the progress I had made, and if notes of my experiences – good and bad – helped someone in their travel planning even better. But, I never got around to it. Story of my life. I always start dreaming of the next trip, next dive, next cup of tea, do the dreaded housework….anything but the task at hand that is as boring AF.
My name is Sue, and I am a diveaholic. Everything above water is just a surface interval I must get through and my mind is always on my next chance to be underwater. So how do I procrastinate like a pro? Easy, grab a cuppa, go sit at your desk to get started for the day.
First task? Hmm need to create a post for my works Instagram and Facebook feeds – hmm, lets see what photos I have from the dive sites (I work for a Dive Centre in Cairns). Ohhh…pretty…that was a fun day. More photos. Oh they were a cool bunch, where were they from again? oh thats right ‘Timbucmiddleofnowheretu”, lets look that up…hmmm, nope dont want to go there, but oh that looks nice, how would I get there?…oh lunchtime already? Best I eat. Righto, back at my desk. Now where was I? Shite – that report is due tomorrow, but first, lemme take a selfi….nah I dont do that, but I would have done something, anything else rather than that report.
Work can wait. Living cannot. But work is needed to fund the living so the procrastinating needs to stop…hence this first post on my blog finally getting written. Its my happy medium – still not actually doing work, but it feels like I am progressing something fun, and I intend to start scheduling in my work time to be more effective – lets see how long that lasts.
The featured photo is a classic example of why I need to blog. That hotel was an awesome place to stay, I woke up to that fabulous view in the mornings, it was a short walk to a little Warung that made the most delectable food, and all I remember is that it was in Candidasa, I can’t remember the name of it to rebook it. Had I blogged my trip, I would have that to look it up.
Next trip in T-21days. Hitting Vanuatu – Espirito Santo and the President Coolidge. Lets see if that makes it to the blog haha