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It’s somewhat chilly in Alaska

Posted on March 5, 2010December 3, 2016

I’m in Homer!  Homer, Alaska, that is.  I’ll be volunteering with these guys for the next few weeks: Kachemak Bay Research Reserve … The drawing above was illustrated by Catie Bursch, one of Kachemak Bay Research Reserve’s Marine Educators.  Today Catie and I went on an excursion looking for materials for the new exhibit at […]

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We might have saved the best for last

Posted on February 24, 2010June 5, 2010

Okay.  So it’s my last day in South Africa (boo), but at least we made it a red letter one: I dove today with Mark Addison of Blue Wilderness, and it was AMAZING.  To tick off the list, we started the day swimming with dolphins, then dove down to Cathedral Cave and visited the ragged-toothed […]

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Arrived at Blue Wilderness in Rocky Bay!

Posted on February 22, 2010December 3, 2016

I’ve just arrived here in Rocky Bay, outside of Durban, South Africa,  to dive with Mark and Gail Addison of Blue Wilderness.  Mark and Gail have been running this unique marine ecotourism operation for 15 years, and the pioneering efforts they’ve made in support of the natural history of the coast for filming, photography and […]

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Freediving with Catsharks

Posted on February 16, 2010December 3, 2016

Steve Benjamin (Animal Ocean) has been helping me improve my freediving skills — when we went out on the boat today, I was able to dive down to about 13 meters, where these catsharks were aggregating.  Catsharks are beautiful, and later that day we found one on the sand that was no bigger than Steve’s […]

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Chasing Big Wave Surfers at Sunsets

Posted on February 12, 2010June 5, 2010

Today the swell was up, so Steve Benjamin (Animal Ocean) and I took a group of professional photographers out chasing the big wave surfers at Sunset Reef, a surf spot here in Cape Town with a reputation almost as deadly as Dungeons.  We were out there for half the day, and I was absolutely blown […]

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