After a good night’s rest at my hostel, I was up bright and early to catch the bus to Port Denarau, where I’d be boarding a catamaran to take me to my new home for the next week. After I learned I would be ending the Lindblad trip in Fiji, I spoke with Ben, who […]

  Monday morning on the Orion started bright and early with our ship still cruising to Vanuatu. We ate breakfast on the back deck as we slowly motored amongst the vividly green islands and blue seas. As we were munching away, someone spotted a pod of sperm whales just off the bow – everyone dropped […]

After a small, 2 week personal vacation visiting a dear friend in Canada (and doing all sorts of outdoorsy shenanigans), I was back in action with my next trip being a Lindblad Expedition! I had been given the generous offer to join a Lindblad trip and I had chosen the expedition from the Solomon Islands […]

Sunday morning I fully took advantage of my chance to sleep in and spent a relaxing morning around my unit. Around 9:15 am, I got a text from Becca asking if I wanted to join her and Sam on an afternoon dive trip – my immediate answer was “yes” so she called a few of […]

My last Sunday morning with the Bimini Shark Lab was packed with activities up until we left that afternoon. We started the morning by finally doing the shark handling course with Anthony. Over the past few days, several juvenile lemon sharks and nurse sharks had been captured and placed into the pens, so we had […]