Fidgety Fins

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FIDGETY FINS SNORKEL EXCURSIONS & LESSONS
Our video channel address with over 10 videos from False Bay to Maldives and Indonesia is on the first line above. Visit the channel to choose your preferred viewings and SUBSCRIBE to receive updates to information and new videos.
SUBSCRIBERS also stand a chance to receive special offers on our group events.

Our WHATSAPP Snorkel Group, founded for fun snorkelling by Dr. Avril Kinsey can be joined once you send back the Fidgety Fins safety and information form, which you can request by completing the form below.

1. BASIC SNORKEL PROTOCOL (up to point 6) and ESSENTIAL SNORKEL SAFETY & PROTOCOL (all points)
1. Snorkel equipment and wearables for comfort & safety before and in the water
2. Snorkel swim techniques (starfish resting, otter-up turns, reverse swimming in case of surge, longer finning for distance, treading water with fins, making small turning circles in the water
3. Clearing mask and snorkel and defogging mask
4. Breath work for calmness
5. Basic buddying up signs and assistance
6. Coping with surge & swell
7. Comfort within the kelp forest, and how to swim/tread through thick kelp
8. Shore entry and exit with or without waves
9. Physical issues like cramping and what to do if you or your buddy gets cramp
10. Land-mark spotting, track-spotting
11. How to read the sea conditions and understand some of our bio-diversity and sea life
12. Duck diving and equalisation

2. SHORE ENTRY SAFARI EXCURSIONS:
a) Shallow Water snorkelling for beginners or beginner underwater photographers, all ages.
b) Kelp Garden snorkelling – ideally for those who have done shallow water snorkelling, where we explore exciting encounters, like octopus and many fish varieties hidden in the kelp forest.
c) Rocks and Crevice snorkelling, where smaller beautiful coloured seaweeds, coralline seaweed, critters, octopus and shy sharks live.
d) Open Water snorkelling over sandy patches and through kelp clusters where stingrays, shy sharks and starfish, sea cucumbers and schooling fish often reside.
3. SPECIALITY EXCURSIONS:
a) Accompanying Freedivers on a solo freedive to an area of their choice
b) Underwater Photography and Videography training (theory and practice)
c) Snorkel Retreats to areas further afield within and outside of South Africa

4) JOIN OUR FIDGETY FINS WHATSAPP SNORKEL GROUP:
Kindly send your, full name, mobile number and email address to +27 83 411 4889, or complete the form at the end of the page. We get back to you within 48 hours. You may unsubscribe at any time.

THE FIDGETY FINS UNDERWATER VIDEO CHANNEL
Travel with Fidgety Fins as she adventures around exotic coastlines to capture unique, sensitive and dramatic underwater beauty with two handheld cameras. One for video, the other for close up macro photography so you experience this world as she did.

WHO IS Dr AVRIL KINSEY?
Known above water as Dr Avril Kinsey, a composer and lecturer and below the water as Fidgety Fins. Avril began snorkelling with her father as a child, later she became a scuba diver and then a certified Apnea Freediver. Currently a snorkel trainer, snorkel tour guide and underwater photographer and videographer.

Avril weaves her underwater worlds into stories and uses her own performances and music compositions on classical guitar with her orchestral creations as the emotional backdrop to her underwater adventures. “My hope is that the Youtube.com@FidgetyFins channel brings joy, love, inspiration to you, and that it resonates on many levels to open up communication about this unique, incredible wildlife frontier that we can all share in, respect and love.

Curiosity is my adventure tool, video the means and music the emotion.

Click below to view over 10 long and short videos from False Bay, South Africa to Raja Ampat, Indonesia Youtube.com/@FidgetyFins https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAfbpcpnQe-Rv9D7vSNNElw/