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WWF & University of South Pacific at work in the Great Sea Reef WWF and University of South Pacific at work in the Great Sea Reef
April 2013 Our visits to the Fijian villages and the one resort in Macuata Province were made the richer when we were able to document the fieldwork of WWF South Pacific Marine Species Coordinator Laitia Tamata, WWF Labasa staff Koli Musudroka and University of South Pacific Laisiasa Cavakiqali. They were visiting 5 sites in the target reef systems […]
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Nukubati Island - the Only Resort in Macuata Province's Great Sea Reef Nukubati Island – the Only Resort in Macuata Province’s Great Sea Reef
14 – 18 April 2013 Nukubati Island -16.463168,179.025926 Getting a WWF assignment to document the world’s third largest barrier reef, we needed to make sure we saw the Great Sea Reef from underwater. Nukubati Island Resort is the only resort in the Macuata Province of the GSR who offered diving as well as many other water related […]
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Kia - The Remote Island Paradise of the GSR Kia – The Remote Island Paradise of the Great Sea Reef
10 – 14 April 2013 Kia Island -16.226542,179.093231 It was a long 4 hour boat ride from Nukusa Village to Labasa Town where we stayed overnight before heading to Kia Island. We armed ourselves for the next stretch of island village living, quickly shopping for a million little things like Milo, laundry detergent, more mosquito repellent, […]
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Diving the Great Sea Reef Mali Island – Diving, Spearfishing and Sea Snakes
2 – 3 April 2013 Mali Island, Fiji – 16°19’60” S 179°21’0″ E We had a grand opportunity of checking out the Great Sea Reef underwater while in Mali Island. Our Ligaulevu Village host Leone Vokai operates a brand new dive shop called the Great Sea Reef Divers and he invited us to go diving with […]
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Whale Sharks of Cenderawasih Bay Whale Sharks of Cenderawasih Bay, Province of Papua, Indonesia
23 March 2013 I really believe in saying “it’s better late than never”. Well, this post is almost a year late but nonetheless, the experience is still fresh in my mind like it happened yesterday. As we get ready to leave tomorrow for our next brand new expedition to Fiji, I thought it best to finish […]
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The Coral Triangle in YouTube The Coral Triangle Expedition now in YouTube!
Four years ago our expedition started in April 2009. Another year and a half later, we finished an almighty big book called The Coral Triangle. And yet another year after that (as in today), we finally managed to make a short slideshow summary of our fantastic Coral Triangle adventure through this YouTube video. Original music […]
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Timor Leste Cowboys from the Maubissi Highlands
14 – 16 August 2010 S8 83.872 E125 60.340 – Maubisse Highland Maubisse was some six hours drive from Dili. It sounds like a long trip uphill but we stopped a lot along the way. One scene that definitely made us pause was the painful sight of a forest gone and the erosion that took […]
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A Day in The East Timorese Life
8 – 19 August 201 S8 33.173 E125 31.634 – Dili S8 83.872 E125 60.340 – Maubisse When we were told days before that we were going to a place where salt was made, we imagined large, massive salt fields by the sea. There will be a lot of white ponds with salt crystals which […]
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Coastal Life in East Timor
8 – 19 August 201 S8 33.173 E125 31.634 – Dili We hardly knew anything about Timor-Leste as we plunged in head first to photograph it. Upon arriving at the airport, we immediately noticed UN presence. There were a lot of men in uniform and loads of vehicles with the UN logo. And yet we […]
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People of Timor-Leste
8 – 19 August 201 S8 33.173 E125 31.634 – Dili Sometime April this year, we attended ADEX in Singapore. Yogi & I were invited by John Thet, publisher of Asian Geographic Magazine as well as Asian Diver and ScubaDiver Australasia, to give a series of public slideshows on The Coral Triangle. In one of […]
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