My next scholarship experience would take me to a remote island in the Philippines, Ticao Island, where I would be working alongside scientists and researchers from the Large Marine Vertebrate Research Institute Philippines, also known as LAMAVE. Here I would spend the next month working as a research assistant with the diving team, a group […]

The term “healthy coral” is not as common to come across these days, let alone to see. So, when you do see healthy coral, and a lot of it, you often have to do a double take. I have experienced coral bleaching at its worst, particularly when I worked as a Marine Biologist in the […]

  A small group of us were on the deck waiting, watching, listening for the signs of… whales! I headed off again to warm waters, but this time I was extremely lucky to be invited to join Jayne Jenkins the Australasian Vice-president of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society and tour leader with Quest Tours to […]

I wish I had gills! I have always loved being underwater and seeing how long I could hold my breath for. It is an escape from the city life and noise to a whole different world and one that I always am so grateful to be able to get away to. For me, it also […]

Ningaloo Reef National Park in Western Australia has to be one of the most beautiful and healthiest coral reefs in the world right now! I have never seen coral so healthy and I have been extremely lucky to dive many different coral reefs around the world. When the basis of a reef, such as coral, […]