There’s a little restaurant on the waterfront in Neiafu on the island of Vava’u called Mango. Instead of by car, patrons here all arrived in little dinghies. Already the landing in front of the restaurant was filling up with the little inflatable boats bobbing up and down in the gentle waters of Koko Bay. We […]
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Downside upside downside up …. It’s quite irrelevant to a whale’s watery realm. Meeting George this year in Vava’u, Tonga, was one of the most extraordinary moments of my life and has set things in motion I could never have envisioned. I have already written about George and my first encounter with him in an […]
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Or fours, or fives, or … in fact this year has been the most extraordinary adventure for me. I clearly remember these three male humpback whales during my recent visit to Tonga. They were showoffs! How they came close enough to say ‘look at us’ but stayed far enough away to remain aloof. They played […]
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We spotted the Logan Pub on our way from St Arnaud to the Wehla Conservation Reserve and I made the mental note, ‘I must photograph this pub on our way back’. The sun was low and the light had that soft afternoon glow when we headed back to town and there it was again, the […]
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It’s a long, long drive between Adelaide and Alice Springs and hundreds of kilometers of perfectly good road can become treacherous when you travel too far and for too long in one sitting. When we first came across this wrecked Wicked Camper van somewhere near Coober Pedy my heart was in my mouth for fear […]
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