How far can you go?

Staff · Issue 27, Nov/Dec 2005 · pp. 29–32

Products mentioned: Nikon 5200, 17-35mm zoom lens, 60mm macro lens, fisheye lens

How far can you go? by Beth and Shaun Tierney It’s always there isn’t it? That craving, the hunger for different and better diving, with more opportunities to capture the experience on film. And without the trials and tribulations of dives inundated with people, where the majority of anything you see is fins. But how far can you go to chase that elusive dream? We’re not really sure what first attracted us to Christmas Island and Cocos Keeling, two isolated Australian outposts in the Indian Ocean. But it was amusing that once we’d found them, no one else knew where they were - Christmas Island being confused with Kiribati and Cocos with, yes, Cocos. This seemed like a good sign - surely these destinations wouldn’t be crowded? Our plan was to spend a week in each place. Cocos Keeling has that familiar Indian Ocean look: a horseshoe shaped lagoon is a bright turquoise and ringed by spits of…