Diving with Sea Lions
A short video I took of diving with sea lions at Los Islotes, Baja California, Mexico.
Travel Stories
Cuba’s Coches Antiguos
Although Cuba’s antique cars (coches antiguos) are such a cliche, it’s difficult to resist photographing them. And the surprising thing when visiting Cuba is that they are not particularly rare….
Diving in the Jardines de la Reina
An archipelago 80km off the coast of Cuba, the Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) are a diver’s paradise that is host to a number of shark species, goliath groupers, and Niño, a friendly American crocodile.
Osa Peninsula Diary
The largest stronghold of Pacific coastline primary rainforest in all of Central and South America, the Osa Peninsula…
Costa Rica Diary
Costa Rica! Having left my departure from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua until a little too late, I discovered I missed the last direct bus from the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border to…
Nicaragua Diary
After 36 hours of traveling, I have finally arrived on Little Corn Island, Nicaragua. The (almost) last leg was with a short flight on a 12-seat “puddle jumper” from Managua to Big Corn – view over the pilot’s shoulder included – followed by a 1-hour..
Shark Diving in Gansbaai
If Kruger National Park is the place to go in South Africa to see the Big Five (elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, and buffalo), then the coast around Cape Town is the equivalent for marine wildlife…
Yala National Park
The driver put down his mobile phone, quickly turned the jeep around, and slammed on the accelerator. No more stopping for
Chateau de Chenonceau
One of my favourite travel and landscape photographers in the UK is David Noton (www.davidnoton.com), whose work I have admired for a long time. On a recent trip to the south of France – inspired by one…
Lemurs Galore
Think of Madagascar and wildlife, and the first thing that springs to mind is, of course, the lemurs. With close to 100 different species, all of which are endemic to Madagascar, they come in all sorts of different
Taxi Brousse Extreme
We had been warned! The “road” hardly deserved the name, and the journey on the back of the pickup truck would be cramped and painful. But all the warnings…
The Vanilla Coast
Located in the remote tropical northeast of Madagascar, the Vanilla Coast is every bit as exotic as it sounds. Arriving on the twice-weekly flight from Tana (short for Antananarivo, the capital), we caught a whiff of vanilla, clove, and other exotic scents as soon as…
Piranha Fishing in the Pantanal
“Just chase them away,” Laercio shouts from the car. We are on a little dirt road in the Brazilian Pantanal and I had got out to open a cattle gate. There is only one minor problem: blocking the gate are…