How To Spend Lots of Money
Well, its 'dive season' for the Evan's. Yes you can dive year round on Okinawa, but for me, I also like to enjoy Okinawa topside too. So after a half a year of seeing what the land has to offer when its relatively cooler, its now time to retreat to the water to escape the sun. Though if you ask me 90 degree water is by no means 'refreshing'!
With this new 'dive season' upon us, its time to get some gear. The thing about Scuba gear, is its not cheap. There is some unwriten rule that activities that are healthy for you, are expensive. Cable TV for a year, not to bad. World of Warcraft for a year, again not to bad. Scuba gear, running shoes, Kayaks, bicycles etc, all not cheap.
One could easily lay down a couple thousand dollars for scuba gear without really trying hard. Even trying to keep costs down your looking at a few hundred per person. So while Jason has a fantasy list, I think I have grounded him a bit in the practical. We can get mid range gear for now and it will suit us just as well.
So a new BC and reg is in order for Jason and a reg is in order for me (and maybe a new BC). We have both decided to put off buying tanks in the near future since rental is cheap and fairly easy. I am told that they generally don't run out of tanks for rentals (unlike everything else) and so we should be okay.
To add even more to our 'dive gear' costs we want to get a kayak, so we can paddle out to weird places and dive. Amend that, two kayaks. Two Kayaks because many of the two person kayaks don't have room for two people and two peoples dive gear. We are having a spot of trouble locating the kinds of kayaks we want, but thats for another post.
It seems my teaching job was obtained only to support our scuba habit. One might say we need cheaper hobbies, but they wouldn't be as fun. Sometimes you have to deal with small children and play duck duck goose endlessly to earn that cold hard cash. It could be worse, I could have Jason's job.
With this new 'dive season' upon us, its time to get some gear. The thing about Scuba gear, is its not cheap. There is some unwriten rule that activities that are healthy for you, are expensive. Cable TV for a year, not to bad. World of Warcraft for a year, again not to bad. Scuba gear, running shoes, Kayaks, bicycles etc, all not cheap.
One could easily lay down a couple thousand dollars for scuba gear without really trying hard. Even trying to keep costs down your looking at a few hundred per person. So while Jason has a fantasy list, I think I have grounded him a bit in the practical. We can get mid range gear for now and it will suit us just as well.
So a new BC and reg is in order for Jason and a reg is in order for me (and maybe a new BC). We have both decided to put off buying tanks in the near future since rental is cheap and fairly easy. I am told that they generally don't run out of tanks for rentals (unlike everything else) and so we should be okay.
To add even more to our 'dive gear' costs we want to get a kayak, so we can paddle out to weird places and dive. Amend that, two kayaks. Two Kayaks because many of the two person kayaks don't have room for two people and two peoples dive gear. We are having a spot of trouble locating the kinds of kayaks we want, but thats for another post.
It seems my teaching job was obtained only to support our scuba habit. One might say we need cheaper hobbies, but they wouldn't be as fun. Sometimes you have to deal with small children and play duck duck goose endlessly to earn that cold hard cash. It could be worse, I could have Jason's job.
posted by Crystal at 8:33 AM
1 Comments:
As for the kayaks, you might try somewhere like Makeman in Chatan, or alternatively some of the Japanese fishing stores. NEOS (just before Urasoe, on the left as you hea south on the 58 towards Naha) would actually be a cracking bet as I know they sell them and can get many types in to order.
As for the SCUBA gear, what equipment are you looking at? BCDs aren't cheap, although I got an excellent quality AP Valves wing bought and shipped here from England for only $300. My reg is a tried and tested Tusa RS 230. It's mid-range but does everything I need to do and I've never had a problem with it. Scubapro gear is nice, but their regs do have a hell of a lot of moving parts - maybe too many for my liking. Apeks are similarly top end but with more more static parts (and also much less prone to freezing, if you do diving in colder waters).
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