Me, in my much younger days at the helm of Encounter. I sold my sailboat this week, and just handed over the keys today to the new owner. However I am not sure that old adage, “The second happiest day…
Stranger in a Strange Land – Witnessing A Pilgrimage for 130 Million People
It’s called “Kumbh Mela“, and it happens over the course of 2 1/2 months in one of the four different holy locations in India that periodically host this festival on a rotational basis. During that time, more than 130 million…
Red Sea Diving Tips – Don’t Feed the Toucan, Don’t Tickle the Morays, and Don’t Laugh at the Dolphins
Just completed a week long scuba diving trip to the Red Sea, something that has taken me about 40 years to get around to, so I thought I would pass on some Wandering Honeybadger Tips… So my target location to…
My SCUBA Resume
The Wandering Honeybadger, Red Sea, Egypt, 2018 I was certified back in 1976 over here in Victoria, BC, Canada. I have been diving continuously since 1976, and in addition to putting more than 5000 hours underwater in a wide variety…
Up Close and Personal With Whale Sharks
The possibility of seeing and photographing whale sharks, was one of the things in the Philippines that I was interested in checking out. In the past, while on diving adventures in other exotic locations around the world such as Thailand,…
Deep, Deep, Deep Inside the Wrecks at Coron, Philippines
If you ever wanted to see whats its like diving inside sunken WW2 wrecks, check out my latest youtube video “Deep Deep Deep Inside the Wrecks of Coron, Philippines” below. Its a bit long at 24 minutes with a prologue…
Throw the Honeybadger to the Great Whites – Shark Cage Diving in Southern Australia!
I have been in the water with a variety of shark species around the world (via either scuba or snorkeling), including: harmless Whale sharks in the Philippines, Six Gill sharks in B.C. Canada, Leopard sharks in Thailand, Nurse and Caribbean…
Stupid Is as Stupid Does? – My Do-It-Yourself Monster Croc Hunt in Australia
Sunset in Karumba – the only difficult part with this shot was to concentrate on the composition, while avoiding getting any of the “Beware of Crocodile” signs that are posted all along the beach into the image, and of course…
How to Make Sailboat Sangria
One time I was sailing in Greece, spending a week on a 50 ft yacht with a number of strangers, and one buddy Mr. V. – who normally is my chef when I am off sailing on my own boat.…
“Thy Mother Mated With A Scorpion”
I was lamenting to a friend recently about how I trained as a professional photographer in my 20’s, but never made any money directly from working behind a camera… my career was managing other peoples photos.. e.g. records, archives, digitization…
Go Ahead, Bite Me or at Least Try To!
I am most certainly have never hoped or planned to “go out” in a glory of false bravado with wildlife, but I think perhaps I have had more than my fair share of interactions with them. I consider myself lucky…
A Month On A Slave Ship in the “South-ish” Pacific
I was just about at my wits end! The situation at my place of employment had deteriorated drastically into a cesspool of petty politics, spite and pure meanness. It was like getting a sharp stick poked in my eye on…
Passages
Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island – 1990 San Diego to Cabo San Lucas – 1996 Dodecanese Islands, Greece – 2001 Marshall Islands – Various Atolls – 2003 Galapagos Islands – 2016 more details coming soon
How I Spent My Summer Vacation Vacuuming up Orca Poop, and a Murder Mystery
This happened a “few” years back, when I was a young lad.. I had been working for a local aquarium who had rescued a wild baby killer whale that had been shot in the back – likely by a fisherman,…