Gran Roque tagged posts

In America, Highlight, Traveled places, Venezuela 2012 On  16/08/2012  No comments

See the posts on Venezuela 2012:

• Gran Roque, Los Roques
• El Morrito – dive site in Los Roques
• Interview with Otto Daniel Naranjo – Divemaster
• First day of diving in Los Roques
• Sea Star
• Seagull
• Nearby islands – Francisquí and Madrisquí
• Interview with Carlos Quintana
• Noronsquí, Crasquí and Rabusquí
• Dos Mosquices and Cayo de Agua
• Diving in Los Roques (videos)
• Los Roques scuba dive info

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In America, Diving & Snorkeling, Venezuela 2012 On  30/07/2012  No comments

Oscar, from the beach equipment rental, invited me to a night snorkel. I accepted, I had done many night dives but never a night snorkel. A late afternoon, when coming back from an island tour, I met Oscar. We walked around the airport, passing through some airplanes, in order to get to our starting point. It was getting dark and the mosquitoes were hungry, lucky me that Oscar was prepared and had mosquito repellent.

By the time we went into the water, it got dark. It was a very interesting experience, I liked the feeling of being in the sea, in an open space, with anything around, no boat waiting for me, or a port next to me, or a beach with people. We surrounded the island on the airport site, therefore, there was no people on the beach.

Right in the beginning we saw a very big lobster, but is was fenced season, so we could not grab it for dinner. Oscar was excited but respected the rules. Our goal was to find an octopus for Oscar’s dinner...

In America, Adventure, Diving & Snorkeling, Venezuela 2012 On  28/07/2012  11 comments

The great motivation to visit Los Roques was scuba diving, so, I spent my first day planning what I would like to do on the 8 days I had in that tropical paradise. The place, I can say, is one of the most beautiful I had been. The sea is incredible, clean beach, transparent water, fisherman, birds, beautiful landscape, great small hotels and interesting people. Everything was very simple and “not simple” at the same time. Almost everybody stay in Gran Roque, the island from where you can depart to dive trips and get boats do visit other islands in the archipelago.

On my first days in Los Roques I was diving. Later I decided to have a “vacation”, not to plan anything, it matched the place… I would wake up at any given time, go to the port and get a boat to wherever they were going. This way, little by little I could go to great part of the islands in Los Roques (Francisquí, Madrisquí, Noronsquí, Crasquí, Rabusquí, Dos Mosquices, Cayo de Agua)...

In America, Interviews, Venezuela 2012 On  26/07/2012  One comment

Carlos is a traveler… has worked on cruise ships and traveled around the world. Nowadays he chose Los Roques to live and works in one of the cafés in Gran Roque. The place where I had been a few times for a beer sitting on a puff on the beach. The place is magic, specially by the end of the day with the Caribbean lights and starred sky.

http://vimeo.com/57594876

Here Carlos Quintana talks a bit about Los Roques.