Sue Crowe (of Tabata) and David Crowe are my incredible hosts while I’m here in Sydney.  Today Sue and David, along with their dogs Fraggle and Sprocket, took me for a hike on Long Reef Beach, and the Sydney area coastline blew my mind.  We then ate Australian pie, which also blew my mind.

We went diving at Shelly’s Beach in Manly today.  Sydney diving is great!  We saw a big ‘ol grouper, and lots of bright amber kelp (kelp excites me, I’m a big fan), and about a gabillion wobbegong sharks…I was totally thrilled at my first one and pitched a fit underwater when I saw it.  Janet […]

Spent most of the day at the Sydney Aquarium with Maija Honkavaara, Programme Coordinator for the Sydney Aquarium Conservation Fund.  Maija showed me around and talked about the myriad local conservation programs the Aquarium’s involved in, including seahorse reintroduction, gray nurse shark conservation, and dugong rehabilitation.  I had an amazing day, especially because I got […]

Hi all, I’m here in Monterey, CA, volunteering with the National Marine Sanctuaries to help a bit with the SIMON online photo database, which is an incredible free service, and I encourage you to browse the volumes and volumes of incredible images that are available to anyone every day of the year. I’ll be diving […]

. Lake Mead – Day 6. Final day of diving – I buddied Andres Diaz and together we took down the baseline and collected all of the basetags and markers we could find.   After we finished our one dive, I returned back to the hotel with Filip, Jeff, and Evan, and we cleaned and packed […]