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Whoever looking for some hopefully competent advice from an "investment advisor" from their own bank has already lost part of their investment success to commission costs, if a contract is entered into....

It was again very nice in Sydney, and I did not want to leave the pretty metropolis. On the Qantas flight from Sydney to Singapore, as expected I got my reserved seat right at the front of the aeroplane. With my neighbour - an...

Early in the morning, the crew of the Star Dancer took myself and the other guests to Rabaul airport. I flew with Air Niugini from Rabaul via Port Moresby to Brisbane in Australia. In Brisbane it was hot and humid, and the...

Today is my last day on the Star Dancer, and I am enjoying the last hours on deck, with a view of the amazing landscape. The stay and diving in Papua New Guinea were ok, but not as spectacular as I had been expecting. I am...

The journey is nearing its end and I am a little under the weather from a cold. Diving is getting harder and harder for me each day, and I am finding it harder to concentrate. So after each of the countless dives I occupy one of...

Near the "Linden Channel" one has the opportunity of photographing either a Pygmy Seahorse or a Japanese plane wreck. I decided to go for the Japanese wreck with Elsie as a model, and prepared my camera with the 12-24mm wide...

In the last few days I lost track of all the different diving sites here :-) Without the three diving assistants Elsie, Josie and Martin from the Star Dancer, I would have been at a loss in the fascinating underwater world of...

For the next dive in the area around the "Duke of York Islands", I use the Seacam-Superdome and Nikon 12-24mm wide angle lens for photographing the beautiful gorgonians on the reef. Elsie, a member of the Star Dancer Crew, helped...

We made our first dives at Jonny's Jetty and the Atun Wrack, not far from Rabaul. Visibility underwater was very bad, as it had rained strongly the last few days and lots of sediment had been washed from the land out to sea. So I...

The further journey from Singapore via Port Moresby to Rabaul in the Bismark Archipelago (Papua Neu Guinea) - with Air Niugini - went off with no problems. The service in Business Class and the very reasonable rates for my excess...