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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Swimming with whales in Tonga – Take three

After skipping 2018 due to scheduling challenges, we returned to Tonga for the third time in August of 2019. Getting There     Based on trips in 2016 and 2017, we know that Tonga isn’t easy to reach. In 2016 we flew Melbourne to Auckland to Tonga, then overnighted in this horrible hotel, and then […]

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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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Christmas with the Seals in Narooma

For our first holiday season in Sydney, we wanted to stay close to home so we could be back for the legendary Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks. When we moved to Sydney in May, one of our first tasks was to find a cattery. We travel quite a bit, and our two very senior cats […]

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Swimming with Whales in Tonga – Take two

Our trip to Tonga in 2016 put us in a serious post vacation funk. We were keen to go back, but organised tours are expensive, the dates aren’t flexible, and we’ve learned that the LAST thing we want is to be in the water with a bunch of other photographers. It is a remote part […]

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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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Swimming with Whalesharks in Holbox, Mexico

In August of 2010, we headed to Holbox, Mexico to (hopefully) swim with whalesharks. Holbox, pronounced OL-bosh, is a small island off the coast of the North coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. The island is about 40k (26 miles) long, 1.5 kilometres (under a mile) wide, and has no paved roads. Holbox is about a […]

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