— Sea Turtles Book in Progress.
When, over three years ago I first presented the idea to my good friend Rod Mast that, together, we could produce an amazing book on THE WORLD OF SEA TURTLES, I really didn’t know what I was letting myself in for, nor do I think did he! Please read on for the full story….
— A lot more than meets the eye.
As a child growing up in the then-remote Galápagos Islands, the birds that surrounded my island home — unafraid as they were — fascinated me. Before long I had learned to recognize every species with ease, but it was their oft-surprising behaviour and specialized natural history that truly captured my imagination…
— A time-warp journey with Dr. Sylvia Earle.
I had never really believed that time travel was possible. And yet, in a convoluted way, it happened to me just last month! Here I was, encased in a state-of-the arts Perspex bubble attached to one of the most highly sophisticated deep-sea submersibles in existence today…
— or is it?
I remember long ago when, during my first guide’s course given by Charles Darwin Station scientists nearly 50 years ago, I was delving deep into the evolutionary literature on Galápagos. Somewhere I came across two lines in the same chapter that really made me wonder…
A heart-warming tale of return from exile…
It’s already hot on this December morning on Española Island. The southernmost of the Galapagos Islands is also one of the driest, and the sunbaked lava rocks seem to fair shimmer with heatwaves, even though the cool season hasn’t ended yet. Everything is still, the plants are dormant, waiting for …
My discovery has gone viral on BBC Earth! Here’s the backstory…
It’s official, with over 10 million hits on the Facebook clip alone, the story that I discovered and revealed to the team who filmed the BBC America TV series EDEN: UNTAMED PLANET (episode 4) has become a smash hit! It all started innocently enough five years ago…
What do four best friends do on a Sunday in Galapagos, now that the pandemic is well behind us (in these island at least)? Well, we decided to go have some fun by looking for our ‘inner tortoise’, that hardy trait that bound us all together during the long months of lockdown …
On May 1st last year, six weeks into total lockdown, I wrote down some thoughts about my new way of life, exploring my new micro-universe made of three shipping containers-cum-tiny-house, placed on a friend’s unused town plot tucked up against the Galapagos National Park boundary… Click to read on
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