SNORKEL VENTURE CLIENT JANET ROBINSON SHARES HER VERY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF SNORKELING IN THE TROPICS OF INDONESIA. When I told my family that I was going on a snorkeling adventure to Indonesia, they questioned my sanity. ‘Mom, are you sure about this?’ They said. ‘People like you don’t travel.’ They were right. I had worked my entire life, raised three darling children and aside from two-week vacations with my family, I had never traveled before. Having recently retired at the grand age of 65 I now have many years ahead of me to rest, enjoy and do all of those things I previously hadn’t had time to do. My one regret in life is that I had always wished that I had traveled more, I’d seen the most wonderful documentaries about the world’s oceans and fondly looked back on vacations to the Florida Keys where I’d been snorkeling many years ago. One afternoon I was catching up with my daughter over coffee and we were talking about our calendar plans for the year ahead. She suggested that I should do something crazy this year, start a mid/late-life crisis which would surprise everyone who knew me. ‘Go on mom, go for it whatever you want to do!’. She said. ‘Surprise us!’. Her words hit a chord and when I got home later, I started thinking more about a traveling adventure. I had my doubts as the thought of traveling alone filled me with dread, but I started researching on the internet and something caught my eye. Six months later and I was checking into my flight, the destination - Bali in Indonesia. Arriving into this foreign land had butterflies in my stomach. The humidity that hit me as I stepped off the plane and the instant kind and charming nature of
SNORKEL VENTURE CLIENT JANET ROBINSON SHARES HER VERY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF SNORKELING IN THE TROPICS OF INDONESIA. When I told my family that I was going on a snorkeling adventure to Indonesia, they questioned my sanity. ‘Mom, are you sure about this?’ They said. ‘People like you don’t travel.’ They were right. I had worked
