Category: Locations

The festival of Vezo Aho was the culmination of a year long social marketing project …

By Jessie Scurfield. The festival of Vezo Aho was the culmination of a year long social marketing project which uses marketing principles to communicate the conservation/ ecological problems associated with some of the fishing methods used by Vezo. The use...

/ Aug 23, 2010

Ah, the jungle. It’s full of beautiful scenic views, majestic streams and waterfalls…

By Jacob Meyer. Ah, the jungle. It’s full of beautiful scenic views, majestic streams and waterfalls, melodic symphonies that come from tropical birds, monkeys that hand you fresh fruit and coconuts, relaxing nights in hammocks near the cozy fire at...

/ Aug 5, 2010

Why would I want to be on a beach holiday when even the chores bring a genuine smile to my face?

By Neil Hagan. “This is not a beach holiday” – a favourite saying of our fearless (except when you mention floating, smiling vampires) expedition leader. Katie, I happen to agree with you, this is certainly not a beach holiday. I...

/ Jul 26, 2010

The trek, well what to say…?

By Christopher Webb. An eerie quiet sets over Pulau Tioman as bags are packed and the volunteers of expedition 7 prepare to go their separate ways. No more shall Yu Lin’s laugh echo round the dive shop. No more shall...

/ Jul 13, 2010

The Unpredictable Sea

By Jon Lange . The livelihood of the local Vezo people is completely dependent on the sea. This is, after all, why we are here: we are providing the science to help the Vezo understand how make the most of...

/ Jul 9, 2010

Beach holiday…?

By Chris Webb. Before I delve into the ongoings of week 4 I feel it's appropriate to summarise the first half of Expedition 7...

/ Jul 5, 2010

The sun came up just as we did

By Anna Westland. 4am. I manage to grab my alarm before it goes off – my hut mate gets cranky enough when I’m up at 7 – and stumble around a bit, looking for rash vests and bits of my...

/ Jun 30, 2010

Thoughts from shore

By Laurenne Schiller. From this angle, I can observe at least seven distinguishable shades of aquamarine in the ocean below me, and there’s not a cloud in the sky...

/ Jun 18, 2010

just like on National Geographic and Finding Nemo!

By Liesbeth Van de Moortel. We saw some amazing things, a sleeping turtle, nocturnal fishes, polycheates and even some copepods were passing the light of your torch. The top act (for me at least) was the...

/ Jun 16, 2010

Football – the universal language

by Ben Darwent. Placed neatly between Coco Beach (staff quarters/restaurant/tourist huts etc) and Half Moon Beach (the wonderful volunteer hub/dive center) is the Blue Ventures football ‘stadium'...

/ Jun 11, 2010

A 1,293 mile hike, 54 consecutive days, 2 sore feet, 1 determined woman and a very worthy cause..

Tess would walk 500 miles and she would walk 500 more (...plus an additional 293)

/ May 26, 2010

Nature’s little surprises

by Rhonwyn Wilkinson. One of the really exciting things about diving is that you never know what you will see when you drop beneath the surface.

/ May 18, 2010

Totally amazing first week

Totally amazing first week that has flown by because we have not stoppped learning new things-from diving skills and knowledge to identifying fish, corals and other benthic organisms. That’s not to say all our experiences have been of the studious...

/ May 17, 2010

Mad weather, dinner in Mexico, big turtles and a Whale Shark

by Christiana Hayward. Lying on the jetty looking out over the lagoon towards the barrier reef I marvelled at huge white breakers boiling, crashing, thundering over the reef, unable to hold back the tempest allowing rolling waves into our normally...

/ May 17, 2010

A Solitary Eagle, Osprey, a Leatherback and a Greasy Pig

By Christiana Hayward. By week three of dive camp our science target sites had been chosen and we were on a roll. We had all passed our science tests with the help, care, dogged determination and humour of Nick our...

/ May 13, 2010