This is a great post. "Travel" is a very competitive category for Curie submissions - only the most exceptional are approved. This is a well written, well formatted and well photographed travel post. I believe the underwater photography and video would have pushed this post over the top - my opinion is this post would likely be approved if submitted to Curie... if this was not a repost of 2 year old material. It would have been a sure rejection.

http://www.danielbowden.com.au/travel/2015/05/15/belize-islandparadise/

I gave the poster an upvote through @humanbot and Badge of Originality even though I don't typically do this for reposts - I think the poster shows a lot of promise and I left a comment that I hope encourages him to produce some original to Steemit content. Nice find. But the specific Curie advice I would give here is to Google paragraphs throughout every post you are considering submitting. I did not turn up any matches for the first few paragraphs I googled but I did turn up a match to his linked website for one of the paragraphs toward the end. Reverse image search was not turning up the images either - Google had not indexed his old website very well, but it did eventually turn up the match.