Category: Locations
Malaysia research blog April-May 2009
Phew, expedition number one in the can, done, completed. It’s been a tough few weeks and jam packed with activities, research and outreach programs but it has flown by. It seems just yesterday that 8 sweating, pale but smiling volunteers...
Fish, football and floundering.
By Liz Griffiths Our fourth week started with proper science training dives. Learning how to identify the different types of corals was one thing; next we had to learn how to collect the data from the seabed.
Fiji scholars blog: Saras Sharmas first days with Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures are operating a scholarship programme to run in tandem with our Fiji expeditions. Here is the account of the first few days on site by Saras Sharma, a junior fisheries officer at the Fijiian department of fisheries and...
Helen’s first few months in Fiji
Helen McGrath, dive instructor out on Leleuvia gives her account of the first few months of the our Fiji expeditions.
Madagascar, Expedition 46, Greetings from Andavadoaka!
The Blue Ventures expeditions to Madagascar are back in operation, thankfully, after several months of disruption. The first blog by the first group of volunteers to visit Andavadoaka Since January...
Blue Ventures Malaysia take part in reef clean up
This weekend the Blue Ventures Malaysia (BVM) team, along with 4 university students from Kuala Lumpur, have been taking part in a reef clean-up event organised by the Department of Marine Park Malaysia (DMPM). One of the main aims of...
When you’re bringing your work to the dinner table…
Island life changes you. Slowly and gradually Swiss cottages and the expedition becomes your normal life.
Space and time: The Leleuvia hypothesis.
By Leah and Duncan. You may be wondering why this blog for a six week expedition is being posted during the fifth week..... Well the thing is, Leleuvia is what we like to call a worm hole...
Kicking off the Qio club
By Katie. Today we headed over to Uluibau Primary school on Moturiki to start up a conservation club for the kiddos...
Researchers, Rocky and Riverdance…
By Muriel and Asa. Team building takes on a new meaning.... It has only been about one week since Expedition Two got together so it was pretty important to have an intense bonding experience over our first Saturday night together...
First impressions of Tioman
By Emma Mason. After three jam packed days in KL, a four and a half hour bus journey with a crazy driver and a late ferry, we arrived on Tioman. I loved it immediately. The small island chilled out way...
The sea slug ball
When it is dark it is very, very dark, like being stuck in a sack in a coal cellar, while wearing sunglasses. Here I am again, Sunday morning, trying to piece together the remnants of memories of last night’s “Dress...
Learning the ropes
By Jim McNish And then the rain came. Out here you can really feel the power of raw nature and as we sat eating dinner in the thatched dining area. It felt as though a fire hose had been opened...
Watching the Oscars with a Fijian chief
by Jim McNish Monday was the big day – we were off to meet Ratu Apenisa, the gentleman most likely to succeed as the next High Chief of all the islands. Everyone met for breakfast dressed in their finery. The...
Leleuvia, our new island home
by Jim McNish It is very difficult to describe the beauty of the island of Leleuvia as we approached. The water around it is fifty shades of blue, a fringe of white sand gives way to palms and fruit trees...