From the fresh spring days of New Zealand, back to the tropics. I set out to cross the south pacific from Tahiti to Easter Island with Lindblad expeditions. The lovely Erin McFadden greeted me on arrival to Tahiti, French Polynesia. As a past European scholar Erin now spends her time exploring the world’s oceans onboard […]

An intensive schedule of technical diving awaited me at Global Dive (http://www.globaldive.net/) in Westhaven Auckland on my arrival back to New Zealand. As my first introduction to technical diving I was unsure what to expect, but I soon learnt this would change the way I plan and carry out each dive. The great team at […]

In 2002, the federal government implemented Indonesia’s largest marine park – Taman Nasional Teluk Cenderawasih. Cenderawasih Bay lies on the north-eastern coast of West Papua, Indonesia. Prior to tectonic movement, slivers of land sealed the bay allowing for marine life to evolve in isolation for millions of years, thus producing an ancient sea with a […]

South-west of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean lie a group of 26 atolls supporting over 1000 islands – a nation known as the Maldives. Kuredu Island is found on Lhaviyani atoll a short seaplane journey from the capitol, Male. Kuredu is not only appealing as a remote getaway location with only a single resort, […]

It took me just two short flights from Cairns and an hour-long road trip to arrive in Kimbe bay, West New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. Sitting between two local villages, surrounded by tropical rainforest and nestled right on the shore of Kimbe bay – Walindi resort was an amazing location for my two-week visit […]