Port Lincoln (and my addiction to swimming with sea lions)

In April of 2022, we planned a trip to William Creek to do some aerial photography at Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre. William Creek is not easy to reach – the options (from most to least expensive) are:   Fly to Coober Pedy (via Adelaide) and arrange a charter flight to fly you to William […]

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Sea Lions & Dolphins in South Australia

When the Australian border reopening was announced, we immediately booked flights to visit my mom in the US, who we haven’t seen since November of 2019. About a month before departure, we got an email from Qantas about a flight schedule change. Not only did we now have a 16 hour layover in Los Angeles, […]

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Swimming with Sea Lions in Jurien Bay

This post is part of our Western Australia road trip. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for another part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Lake Ballard Exmouth and Coral Bay Shark Bay and Monkey Mia Dirk Hartog Island Shark Bay Scenic Flight Kalbarri Hutt Lagoon Scenic […]

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Sea Lions and Dolphins in South Australia

Still confined to our mostly Covid-free island, we headed to South Australia for a holiday in April of 2021. We flew into Adelaide and stayed at the Intercontinental (#points).     We spent our one free day on a tour of the Barossa with Scott Ninnis. Our request was “off the beaten track red producers” […]

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Sea Lions in Jurien Bay & a day trip to Rottnest Island

Is there a better way to break up two back-to-back weeks of work in Perth than with a weekend of sunshine, saltwater, and some very friendly sea lions ? No.   Getting to Jurien Bay Jurien Bay is located on the Indian Ocean, an easy 2.5 hour drive north of Perth. It’s a small fishing […]

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The Sea Lions of Baird Bay

When people asked where we were spending the holidays, there was no simple answer. We were headed to Baird Bay, which few people have heard of, and we were driving there from Port Lincoln, which is another place that most people haven’t heard of. My most common response was, “go to Adelaide, then fly an […]

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The Sea Lions of Los Islotes

Sea lions are one of my favourite subjects to photograph. They have adorable faces and genuinely seem to like interacting with humans. La Paz, in the Sea of Cortez, is known for its colony of 200 California sea lions and is an easy side trip from the United States. Getting There We flew from Sydney […]

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Port Lincoln – Take Three

There are few things that make me smile like snorkelling with sea lions, and Port Lincoln is one of the best places on the planet. The first time we visited (2015) I only had a GoPro (and it wasn’t turned on for THE_MOST_AMAZING_ENCOUNTER_EVER). The second time we visited (2017) we had the new camera housings, […]

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Swimming with Sea Lions (and Shark Cage Diving) in Port Lincoln

(Location: South Australia, Australia) When we got the new underwater housings, we knew we would be returning to Port Lincoln. We’d visited back in 2015, and had an amazing time. The sea lions come RIGHT up to you, to the point where you can feel their whiskers. Unfortunately my GoPro was off half the time […]

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