‘Where’s the transect?’ Dan mimed to me. I shrugged back, ‘I thought you had it?’. We were lost. Clouds of silt surrounded us at the bottom of the Derwent River as we blindly searched the sea floor for our lifeline back to the buoy. We were supposed to be running a 100m transect on a […]

On the 30th of September, I continued my epic dolphin quest throughout the UK and journeyed to Wales, where I would be joining the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre (CBMWC) in New Quay. This journey in itself was quite intense, involving a 15 hour bus ride to London (that I forgot to take water and […]

“They’ve got sharp teeth you know, and they’re pretty strong. They’re not like Australian bottlenose dolphins, these guys are 4 metres long.. Want to get in?” – quote Dr Kevin Robinson when asking me if I wanted to get in the water to try and get the sex of some dolphins. I said yes of […]

Two and a half years ago I lived on an island off the coast of Fiji at a marine conservation project. That project was my first introduction to just how hard life at a research station could be. We drank water from the river, showered in the river, and had one solar panel that charged […]

A column of mist pierces the horizon, followed by a deep unearthly ‘fwisssssh’, as if the ocean itself has come up for air. A large dark shape slides through the ocean. Its body slicing through the waves. It lifts its tail out of the water. This creature that we call whale has incredible origins. It […]