Andy Gorman's Web Site

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Some of my interests include:

• Photos:
  • Baby pictures of my twins Kevin and Hannah
  • Family Photos
  • Loch Vail
  • La Sal National Forest, Utah
  • Diving in Maui

• I'm a big jazz fan. Public radio is about the only place to hear jazz. Support your local public radio station!
  • WBGO 88.3 FM in Newark, NJ.
  • KUVO 89.3 FM in Denver, CO.

• My wife and I really enjoy SCUBA diving, though living in Colorado does not afford us the opportunity to dive nearly as much skiing and hiking. Here are some links to places we have dove:

  • Maui, HI, USA - We dove with and highly recommend Mike Severns Diving. The owner, Pauline Fiene, is the best dive master we've ever dove with. She is a researcher who has studied Hawaiian marine life marine for many years. I think this was the first place I saw a Slipper Lobster. It looked so bizarre at the time that I felt like I was on another planet. Here are some highlights from our dives.

  • Grand Cayman, BWI - Best diving, but very expensive food and taxi (bring your own food if you can). There were great shore dives here. Some of them were very shallow so our dives lasted over an hour. We saw more Eagle Rays and Sea Turtles here then on all other trips combined If you go diving here, you should check out Sting Ray City. You can hand feed wild Sting Rays. It's quite an experience.

  • Lighthouse Reef, Belize - This place is a great getaway. There were only twelve guest on the island. You could circumnavigate the island on foot in about 30 min. There's nothing to do but dive and relax. It's wonderful! The dive operation is the best we've ever seen.

  • Cozumel, Mexico - Great diving. Beautiful reef. Lots of drift dives.

  • Turks & Caico (see Club Med) - We arrived here shortly after a tropical storm so the visibility wasn't that great in the beginning of the week, but it became progressively better as the week went on.

  • St. Lucia (see Sandals) - St. Lucia is beautiful, but the dive operation at Sandals was pretty poor. On one dive they ran out of weights so they they had us put rocks in our pockets. It's a good thing that we didn't have to dump our weight in an emergency!

    On a more positive note, this was our honeymoon so luckily diving was not the focus of this trip. St. Lucia is largely undeveloped, so we were able to go hiking in a relatively pristine rain forest.

  • Sonora Bay, Mexico (see Club Med) - This was my first diving experience. I saw a Manta Ray and remembered thinking that I would be likely to see Mantas on all my dives. Well, that was the first and last time for the Manta sighting.

• I also like practicing mindfulness meditation and yoga. If you would like some information on activities in Boulder, see the Insight Meditation Community of Colorado website.