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photo credit: ideonexus A Taste of the Islands The conch is a single-shelled marine mollusk, or sea snail. There are a number of varieties of this mollusk, including the hawk-wing, milk, rooster-tail, fighting, and queen, or pink, conch. The variety that is especially enjoyed as food here is the queen conch. It bears the Latin [...]

photo credit: geraintandkim Island Destinations – Cook Islands The Cook Islands are in the South Pacific Ocean, Northeast of New Zealand. The Cook Islands consist of fifteen small islands in this South Pacific Ocean and they are a self governing democracy with the New Zealand. It is located in the South Pacific Ocean. Aitutaki, Rarotanga, [...]

photo credit: jon hanson Diving at Flores Island in Indonesia Flores Island is Right Place For Adventurous Travelers and Real Paradise For All Divers The word Flores is firstly given by Portuguese who reached the island about 15 th century ago. The word itself means Flowers. Actually it is to describe for beautiful coral formations [...]

photo credit: Georg Wittberger Untouched Paradise – Thousand Islands Nestled in the Bay of Jakarta, The Thousand Islands or Pulau Seribu are an archipelago of nearly 130 islands dazzling and bewitching the Java Sea. Beautiful as well as bountiful, the islands are tropical with sandy beaches and at times possess scenic coral atolls strewn in [...]

photo credit: robertpaulyoung Pacific Islands The Pacific Ocean consists of more than 25,000 islands. Those lying south of the tropic of Cancer but excluding Australia are traditionally grouped into three divisions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Inhabitants of these islands are referred to as Pacific Islanders. Micronesia means small islands. These include the Islands of Marianas, [...]

photo credit: NeilsPhotography Selayar Island is Maybe One of the Few Remaining Exotic Diving Paradises in the World Selayar Island lies in the flores sea between Sulawesi Island and Flores Island. A mountain range runs along the eastern side of the island rising to about 600 meter and dropping to over 2500 meter below the [...]

photo credit: Stinkie Pinkie What’s the Weather Like When Traveling to the Virgin Islands? The Virgin Islands are situated just east of Puerto Rico in the northern Caribbean. Most of the islands are volcanic in origin and are quite rugged with some peaks over 1500 feet high. They are divided into the U.S. Virgin Islands [...]