Darrell Seale · Travels

Darrell Seale Travels

142 countries. Seven continents. Usually with a dive bag.

I'm Darrell Seale. I live in Abu Dhabi, keep my home base in Trophy Club, Texas, and have spent a good part of my life finding reasons to go somewhere new. So far that's 142 countries on all seven continents.

Diving is usually the reason. I've been a scuba instructor since 1999 and have logged more than 2,500 dives, so a lot of my trips start with one question: what's under the water there? The ruins, mountains, cities and food get planned around the answer.

This site is where the trips themselves will live: where I went, what I saw above and below the surface, and the photos to go with it.

Darrell Seale on Paulet Island, Antarctica, in 2020, his 100th country

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Country 100: Antarctica

I reached my 100th country in 2020 on Paulet Island, off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica isn't technically a country, but I count it.

Paulet Island, Antarctica · 2020

A few stops along the way

Darrell Seale on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 2024
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania2024
Darrell Seale in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, 2023
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland2023
Darrell Seale in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, 2023
Raja Ampat, Indonesia2023
Darrell Seale in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 2023
Samarkand, Uzbekistan2023
Darrell Seale in Petra, Jordan, 2015
Petra, Jordan2015
Darrell Seale in Kyoto, Japan, 2022
Kyoto, Japan2022

The full gallery, sorted by region, is on darrellseale.com.

Trip pages, coming here

Each trip will get its own page: the route, the places worth the detour, the dives, and the photos. They go up after I'm home.