My next 7 days at Barefoot Manta flew by! I spent all of Sunday doing more marine conservation volunteering – I started the morning by tending to my little mangrove propagules, watering them and tidying the bed they are planted in. I then set out for a COT dive with some staff at Backyard Reef, […]

I checked out of my hostel early on Sunday morning to catch the bus to Port Denarau, where I’d catch a catamaran ferry to my next destination – Barefoot Kuata. Earlier in my year, I spent a week at Barefoot Manta, a resort in Fiji that combines marine conservation projects with their everyday dive tourism. […]

I spent the next week with Jayne and Colin in Sydney, getting a few more dives in at Chowder Bay and Bare Island (with pygmy pipehorses, red indianfish, octopus, nudibranchs, and cuttlefish galore!) before the end of the year. I was excited to be spending New Year’s Eve in Sydney, as its one of the […]

Monday was another full day of diving, both on the surface and in the bottom cage. We did the usual surface cage session in the morning after breakfast, with another slow start to the shark action. We did one round of bottom cage diving before breakfast, with a very curious, small male shark that was […]