Going down under

Wouldn't it be great to take a vacation scuba diving in Australia and come back with loads of professional pictures?

Wouldn't it be even better to do it for a living?

That's what Kristin Anderson, Spirit Lake High School graduate and former Orleans resident, does every day. Daughter of Eric Anderson, owner of Valley Contracting of Estherville, Anderson was a Rotary exchange student in Perth, Australia her junior year of high school. She liked Australia so much that she traveled back and forth, finally settling there permanently in 1993.

"I've always been a water baby," Anderson said, explaining her interest in diving. After she moved to Australia, she met people who had a dive shop. She started diving in 1993. "I was addicted from the first day," she said.

Anderson and her husband, David Hall, have owned Exmouth Diving Centre in Exmouth in western Australia since 1996. The Ningaloo Reef, the world's largest ringing reef, provides endless diving opportunities...[Estherville Daily News]