On this occasion, I’d free-dived quite deep and found myself looking up toward the surface as mother and child swam into view. Noticing my strategic position below them, I’m sure I had just become the subject of that day’s lesson in playful showing off. As the two approached, the mum rotated as she glided by […]
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There is no doubt at all in my mind that there is more here than the instinctual caring for a newborn child. I watched her for a time and was enchanted by the way she nudged and guided and snuggled and swam with her beautiful baby. In those privileged moments I fell in love with […]
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Some moments are beyond words, beyond description. In this moment the ocean’s murky gloom fell away as mother brought her newborn calf out of the deep water towards the light and the life-giving air above. In this moment I forgot I was hanging in a vast ocean far away from my everyday life. All that […]
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The the big male far below me had already started blowing bubbles on his last descent. As his stream of bubbles ascended from below it expanded and divided over and over like some roiling cauldron until the ocean became a sea of bubbles telling of his progress far beneath me. As I watched all five […]
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Contrary to popular international belief you will almost never see a kangaroo in the general urban environment. Venture 30mins to an hour away from any populated center and you will need to watch out for them while driving at night. Go camping in any of our National parks and they will be an intermittent part […]
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