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 […]

After a good night’s rest in Port Lincoln, I was up nice and early on Monday morning to continue working to get the boat tidied up for the next trip, which was starting in just 12 hours. The crew and I spent the morning cleaning up around the boat, then took a trip into town […]

By early Tuesday morning the guests had disembarked and we spent the rest of the morning turning over the boat – stripping the beds of linens, collecting towels to be washed, vacuuming, running countless loads of laundry, and putting wetsuits back on the rack. By early afternoon we all took a break from the cleaning […]