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Banda Islands: Adventure, History and Living like a Castaway

There I sat on the porch of my Robinson Crusoe-styled beach shack perched on a small bluff under towering Kenari trees, looking out at the Banda Sea. I smiled.  Not a normal smile, but an ear-to-ear smile, big enough to snap off the top of my head.  I had made it…

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Underwater in the Maldives

The Maldives are dreamy.  There are about 1,200 islands in the Maldives and about 200 are inhabited.  We went to Mirihe, an island only 350 meters long out in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  Out in the middle of nowhere.  Yeah, dreamy is the word, no shoes required, only flippers.

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