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Frommer's Australia 2000 720 pages 2000 edition
This is the book we used most often in Australia. They have a clear layout
and excellent maps. Indispensable guide.
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Australia (National Geographic Traveler) 400 pages
Not as good as a travel resource but where we found it useful is that it
goes into a lot more depth about the history of Australia as well as
Aboriginal culture.
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Loney Planet Australia 2000 1056 pages 10th edition
Another typically excellent travel guide.
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Fodor's Australia 2000 624 pages 2000 edition
Another typically excellent travel guide.
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The Dive Sites of the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea 176 pages by Neville Coleman
This book describes only some of the major sites on the Great Barrier Reef.
The reef itself is so vast that no one book can possibly describe all of them.
The book does have good maps, tips on how to plan travel to the region
and dozens of excellent photographs of some of the wildlife you could see
on the famous Great Barrier Reef.
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Lonely Planet Palau : Diving & Snorkeling 144 pages by Tim Rock and Francis Toribiong
This is the newer edition of the book I used and with twice as many pages
I expect it's even better than the edition I used. The edition I used had
some great text about Palau and the unique culture of the region. Obviously
it has great maps and descriptions of the dive sites of the islands. Once
again there are some sites that I visited that weren't described but
most actually were described and represented accurately.
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Micronesian Reef Fishes: A Comprehensive Guide.. 522 page hardcover by Robert F. Myers
This is an absolutely amazing book if you are really into knowing everything
about the fish you're looking at. It's quite scientific but also includes
over 1000 color pictures of various fish to make identification easier.
The only downside is that it's heavy.
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Micronesian Reef Fishes: A Field Guide for Divers and Aquarists
408 page paperback by Robert F. Myers
This is a slighly trimmed down version of the hardcover I bought. I checked
out the dog-eared copy the Sun Dancer II had available and it contained almost
the same content but toned down on the scientific stuff a bit.
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Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific
314 pages by Terrence M. Gosliner, David W. Behrens, Gary C. Williams
Another indispensible guide to animals. This book only deals with
invertibrates so you'll need a separate book about fish (see above). The
only downside is that it's lacking common names for some fairly common animals
but still an excellent book.
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Reef Watchers: Guam & Micronesia Fish & Critter I.D.
96 pages by Astrid Witte, Casey Mahaney
A cute but very small book. It's handy to carry around with you if you
don't want to lug around the other much larger books. Has many of the
animals you're likely to see but will definitely not have things you'll
see. The book is both in English and Japanese.
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Trip-N-Tour | |
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This company specializes in dive travel to Micronesia. I dealt with
Mike Zolna and I highly recommend them.
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Carolines Resort | |
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This is a nice little resort we stayed at for a couple nights in Palau. The
rooms were actually small cottages at the top of a hill with spectacular
views of the islands.
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Peter Hughes Diving Inc. | |
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This is an excellent operator of Live-a-boards around the world. We really
enjoyed their Sun Dancer II operation in Palau.
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Bondi Beach Bed & Breakfast | |
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This is a small Bed and Breakfast in Bondi Beach near Sydney, Australia.
The owners made us feel very welcome when we stayed in their Garden "Sweet".
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Inn Australia | |
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On-line Bed & Breakfast broker. I worked with Carl Southern there to find
a room in Sydney during the 2000 Olympics. I couldn't find a place to stay
anywhere near Sydney on my own but Carl came through with several options
including the Bondi Beach B&B we stayed at, see above.
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Sydney Taronga Zoo | |
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The Taronga Zoo we visited while in Sydney. Definitely a must visit
if you're in Sydney.
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Royal Orchid Guam | |
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The hotel we stayed at during our brief time in Guam. This was also
undoubtedly the nicest hotel we stayed at on the whole trip.
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Tusa Dive Australia | |
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This is the dive operator we used while in Cairns, Australia. They were ok
but probably still better than the other land based alternatives.
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Kuranda Cultural Rainforest Village | |
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The official site of the major tourist destination near Cairns, Australia.
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Matthew's Palau Pictures | |
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Here are pictures taken by a friend of a friend who went to Palau in
November 2003. His pictures were taken by a housed Sony digital camera
and look great. The pictures are hosted by Shutterfly so hopefully
they'll stay there a while.
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