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Indigo Dive St. Vincent/Baechcombers, Apr, 2010, by Michael Zagachin, MA, US ( Reviewer 4 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 5436 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We spent 10 days diving with Indigo Dive and staying in Beachcombers Hotel. If you do not have time to read further, just contact Kay Wilson, the Indigo Dive owner, make reservations and go. You will be glad you did. Let me start with LIAT that we flew from San Juan to St. Vincent. I wish big airlines where this good: plenty of legroom (unlike American), departure on time (unlike American), arrival earlier than scheduled and no charges for checked luggage within weight limits (unlike $25 by American). Kay met us at airport, brought us to supermarket to buy some groceries for our kitchenette and we were in Beachcombers Hotel in 15 minutes. Beachcombers is very nice real Caribbean style family owned hotel with restaurant, pool, beach, spotless daily cleaned rooms and friendly staff. Continental breakfast was more than adequate even for my appetite and you can order more from the menu. We stayed in a suite with fully equipped kitchenette making our own lunches. No reason, we just like it that way. Several other restaurants are within short walking distance. All dive equipment is included as part of dive package. We only brought our own computers, masks and fins. Indigo’s Scuba-Pro equipment is less than 2 years old and in perfect condition. This saved us $150 on this year regs’ maintenance and $25 of luggage charges by American for extra bag we would have otherwise. Indigo is a small operation with very personal service taking care of each and every detail of your vacation far beyond the care you expect from a dive operation. Thanks to the Undercurrent, in our 22 years of diving we never had bad experience with dive operations (except once on Grand Cayman). Kay and her small staff go far beyond just professional and helpful. In short we were diving with friends who were showing us their underwater home and backyard making sure we do not trip over anything and hurt ourselves. No crowd on their boat that fits eight divers, but mostly we had no more than four divers on board. Kay dove with us most of the time, Steve and Andrew dove when she was not around. All of them have incredible eye for little critters St. Vincent is so famous for. Once they were comfortable with our diving style, we dove our own profiles using computers with generally no limits imposed beyond common sense. Photographers’ needs are taken care of. The dive environment varied from grass bottom, to rocks, swim-throughs, caves and wrecks. I liked wreck dives a lot. They are pretty old and full of life. One of them is home to a couple of French Angels of unbelievable size. I am not going to list all critters we saw underwater, many for the first time ever. Some of them you can see on my website www.redberryphoto.com/underwater . After a while we stopped paying attention to eels, spotted drums and cleaner shrimps. The island itself is worth a good look. With no ugly tourist attributes useless t-shirt and souvenir shops that ruined most of the Caribbean, St. Vincent is a real life island with friendly locals, colorful town of Kingston, lush vegetation, volcano and picturesque coast line. We did not rent a car, but when I wanted to hire a driver for a day of some land photography, Kay took us in her car despite my numerous objections. This was her rare day off. Few suggestions: leave American Express at home, bring more cash than usual and pay Indigo Divers with certified check to avoid credit card fees.
Websites	Indigo Dive St. Vincent
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean, Thailand, Australia, Indonesia
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	no currents
Water Temp	79-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	None
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Small boat hence no special photo facilites (and no crowds).

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Dive Review of Indigo Dive St. Vincent/Baechcombers in
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